My view

The view from the window in my room.

Gaillardia

 Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun'

also known as Gaillardia aristata 'Arizona Sun' - Blanket flower

Salvia

	Common name: Salvia Latin name: Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue'

Flocks

We found these phlox's along side the road.

Phlox: from the Greek phlox, "flame," ancient name of Lychnis of the Caryophyllaceae glaberrima: most glabrous, Latin for "smooth" referring to lack of hairs on leaves and stems

Status:	Endangered
Plant:	erect, perennial, 2'-4' tall forb, usually hairless; stems slender
Flower:	red-purple, 5-parted, 1/2"-3/4" wide, funnel-shaped, lobes not notched, tube narrow; inflorescence usually several branched clusters (cymes) terminal and from the upper 1-4 pairs of leaf axils; blooms June-Aug.
Leaf:	many, mostly opposite, not divided, not veiny, linear to lance-like gradually tapering to a sharp point
Habitat:	wet; woods, prairies

Cats

Odd facts about cats

• You must have seen cats going through any opening that is available by squeezing their body, do you know why? This is because they don’t have collarbone.
• The collective name for a group of Cats is a clowder or clutter
• Cats have over one-hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• As the cats grow, their eye color also changes

Begonias

     Plants have at least two names, a genus name, which is broad and capitalized, and a lower case species name that is, more specific. The name to the left is the genus and the one after it is the species. Sometimes these look very much the same.

Purple Moon Torenia

Large flowers bloom all summer over trailing plants. Excellent for hanging baskets, or allow to trail out of containers.

Mums

Latin name: Chrysanthemum species note: There are literally 100's of varieties of Chrysanthemums that can be broken down into three groups. Potted indoor flowering plants,  perennials known as fall mums and plants grown for use as a fresh cut flower.

Monarch

 

 We saw these butterflys in my Grandparents back yard. There were hundreds!

The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly ( subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies.

Mint

Mentha is the Latin name for mint.