Visitors to a Southern Georgia Garden

Dragonflies, frogs, lizards, and more!

Today Melanie Folk is sharing pic from her garden in southerly Georgia .

Melanie has a yard full of snake doctor and loves to capture them up near to see the smasher of their wings . Dragonflies have a voracious appetite for mosquitoes , so they are always a welcome visitor to any garden .

Another welcome visitor , a green tree anuran , is in reality Georgia ’s Department of State amphibious aircraft . Green tree batrachian , too , have a great appetite for louse pests . The best way to promote garden visitor like these is to avoid using insecticide and to provide a variety of habitats — including water system — in your garden .

sunflower are a large source of pollen and ambrosia for many pollinating insects . If you really desire to maximise their benefit to bees , keep off varieties that are draw as “ pollenless . ” The pollenless sunflower are popular as cut flower , as they do n’t spill messy pollen on the table , but the old - fashioned potpourri with abundant pollen provide more food for your local wildlife , such as the humblebee fancy here .

The fleeceable American chameleon is a small lounge lizard that is native to the southeast recess of North America . This one is in the process of ecdysis , shedding an erstwhile layer of skin as it grows .

A spectacular camelia bloom ( Camelliajaponica , Zones 7–10 ) . Camellias are the wintertime and early spring queens of Southern gardens , and their blossom come in a blanket reach of forms and form . This flower , with layer upon layer of exactly format petals , is called a formal image .

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