Butterflies Loving the Statice

These are both varieties of swallowtails. 

The yellow above I believe is a Western Tiger.

The blue and black in the video below is most likely a male Pipevine.  Note the chinks missing from the left wing.   

 

I have linked to a fun website here that helps with butterfly identification.

 http://www.gardenswithwings.com/identify-butterflies.html

May Flowers in the Garden

 Schizanthus, or Poor Man's Orchid

Yellow Poker Plant, Kniphofia.  A member of the lily family.

Scabiosa seed pod.  Pincushion flower.  A light white and lavender flower that forms these pods seen to the very left.

Campanula or Canterbury Bells.

Pink Foxglove.

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY

Passion Fruit Vine

Allium Bulgaricum

 Candytuft

Golden Drumstick 

Billy Buttons Craspedia Globosa

Dolly Parton

 

Joshua Tree

The joshua trees are sporting a profusion of blooms this Spring.  Erica snapped this beauty near Adelanto while on an archeological survey.

Apple Blossoms

Golden Delicious.

California poppies and old vine zinfandel.

Spring jeans.