Red passion vine.

What is this? A very late blooming singular stalk of ginger. Pot of periwinkles. Bee favorite liriope.

@SpookyShoe; "What is this?

You's better hope it isn't the voracious Japanese Beetle; if it is, you's got trouble!
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Green June Beetle. Bigger than Japanese Beetles.

That beetle just looks like he's sleeping it off.
Flowering ginger is a-mazing!!!!!

The next sized up from the green june beetle is the grape beetle. They come in these two shades, around here. Not sure why.

Summer garden not done yet.

Before this morning I had seen only two or three hummingbirds at a time. Today many more arrived. They were active very early.

Guarding her feeder ...

Male Ruby Throat.

Bird of Paradise. I have two plants and neither is a prolific bloomer for me.

Things are filling in nicely.

Spring/Summer crops holding on here. Black Beauty Eggplant planted in the spring doesn’t seem to get going strong until later in the summer into the fall. I have about a dozen tomatoes on the two remaining plants. Odds are good for November tomatoes.

Bush beans are looking good, plenty of blooms. I’m leaving the okra on the plants to dry for seed. If I get a surplus, I’m squeezing the excess for the oil.

The marigolds really like this time of year.

@karstopography, they really are.

Blooming Mexican mint marigold.
Butterfly royalty... I see lots of Monarchs, but few Queens. Mussaenda luteola
Lavender pentas in a grow bag

Lots of sprouting going on. Peas, lettuce, kale, endive, bok choi, radish, plus others. I love watching seedlings pop up!

Agree @karstopography, seed starting never gets old.

Yesterday morning I noticed a monarch caterpillar in the "j" shape, and I knew it was possible that it was going to form a chrysalis very soon. So I observed it and got some photos of the transformation taking place. The caterpillar had attached itself to a stem of a Mystic Spires salvia.