Wildlife in the urban garden

I’ve written in a previous blog how much I love dragonflies. This year, I caught a great photo of a similar brown dragonfly sitting on a stake I’ve used to mark where I planted some aizoon stonecrop that I moved from my shady front yard to the full sun of my backyard. This plant, often called sedum aizoon, is a plant of Asian origin that I found struggling among the violets and creeping charlie in my front yard when I first moved into my house. After transplanting it, the stonecrop has flourished and, apparently, attracted the interest of this dragonfly. I know dragonflies are insectivores, but this one would fly away if I got too close and then land again on top of the stake when I backed off.

This is my first photo of wildlife in my garden this year. Hopefully I can catch more interesting species on camera in my yard this season.