I only have one pic to share on this post .

Seems these little guys have quite the range .......from Texas to at the very least South Western Ontario Canada.

Signet

Super pics! Yes we have Tree frogs in Eastern Ontario as well. Hopefully folks here will continue to add more.

In case any of you missed it we had a wonderful thread about this very thing in the Perennial forum in December. It was extremely well visited with 142 posts. Here is a link. Gardeners Friends

A nice swallowtail on my butterfly bush last summer!

Sherry

What a great picture of the pink beetle on the pink daylily. Serendipity indeed. We've got tree frogs in our garden too. They seem to be very adaptable- from Houston to Tulsa to Canada.....I have about 1/2 dozen pictures in my Picture Trails album that have some unsual bugs/critters in them, but can't post them anymore on Houzz. But I do have one I think most people will recognize - the Cicada............Maryl

I didn't know tree frogs had such a wide habitat. It was always interesting watching them hunt on the kitchen window at night, when the lights attracted the bugs. I have other tree frog pictures as they were pretty thick down south.

This guy just kept coming out of the flower at me. I think he finally jumped on the camera tripod.

This guy apparently spent the night in the bloom. I almost dead-headed him!

I'll see your cicada Maryl, and raise you a grasshopper.

LOL on the Grasshoppers Ed. We Okies have a few of those too...... We don't have that many tree frogs around my yard, just a couple that I usually run into in early fall. Had to chuckle at your comment of finding them in a closed bloom. I used to deadhead a non sterile Rose of Sharon so it wouldn't set seed, and I can't tell you how many angry Bumblebees I disturbed in doing so........Btw, since I'm always interested in full figured yellow daylilies, what is that warm yellow daylily in the first picture? Is it the same daylily as what is in the second picture?......Maryl

Maryl,

I'm not sure if it was a named flower or a seedling. The picture is not labeled. I'll scan my photos and see if I can see something similar.

srks72

Glad you like it. The flower is my 'Lahoma's Legacy'.

Sorry, but when I moved north, I didn't bring much of this with me. The deer, hail and lack of attention almost lost it. But I found it in time and it is recovering. Maybe by the end of this season I would have enough to share. Email me if you want to wait that long.

Ed

Maryl,

My best guess for the name of the golden yellow flower above is 'Eighteen Karat'.

thanks for the information Ed.....................Maryl

Love the ladybug and dragonfly pics! I think I post tree frog photos every year, but could only find one to post now:

love the lady bug picture,I hardly ever take photos of bugs.I'm too busy taing photos of the daylilies to think about bugs,

Cool froggie pic Chris. I think the northern tree frogs have a coarser skin than the southern, whose skin is very smooth. But very similar.

I can't help but watch out for bugs Jean, honey bees, bumble bees and all kinds of pollen robbers! Then there's wasps and japanese beetles. Anyone that dead-heads is bound to get stung occasionally.

It was a big surprise when I ran into this!

That is an impressive spider. I like it!

oooooooooh ! ick! step on it ! that is one nasty looking spider!!!!

signet

LOL signet,

Nah, I don't want to step on it. Spiders aren't that bad. This is one of the garden spiders that make huge intricate webs. Lot's fun to watch them mate and raise a batch of little spiders.

Now this will make some people squirm! LOL.

This fellow was in my seedling bed.

Gave me a start when I finally saw him, but he let me get pretty close. I think it was an eastern coachwhip; a really pretty snake. Probably after my tree frogs!

Ed

Found one to make you squirm. I have no idea what the mama looked like, but I almost put my hand in the middle of this group:

Found one more frog for you, Ed. I generally see the bright green frogs like the one posted in my photo above, but occasionally we get these pretty grey fellas with a diamond pattern:

The green ones we have are occasionally gray Chris. I thought maybe they could change their color, like when they were down or depressed, they would be grey! ;0)

I've been meaning to ask you the name of the daylily on your profile pic. Very pretty!

It's a seedling Chris, one I've been working on for my Mom.

Well, it sure looks like an intro to me. I love the throat and that beautiful ruffled edge. Nice work, Ed!

Great photos of critters but snakes and spiders are not my favorite critter to discover in the garden especially when weeding. Ed: Love your pic of your seedling and hopefully it meets your criteria for release as an intro.

what a beautiful daylily.Love it. always keeping a eye open for snakes when outside, as I am very afraid of them.Have had many close calls but, so far, have never been bitten by one,and hopefully it stays that way.