This plant has been growing in the garden for the last few years. It has spread to the other side of the pathway, but now I am considering eradicating the other patch based on the invasiveness of the species I read about from England.

I first observed this bee species mating last year and noticed this year that there seems to be a large male feeding and defending a territory of a patch of lambs ears (Stachys byzantina) by physically attacking other bee species visiting the flowers. We have found some injured honeybees in the area and wonder if their missing wings are from these encounters. Smaller female bees feed from the flowers and the male mates with them. On this day there was one male and two females.

Blossoming trumpet vine. It is approximately nine years old, and is being trained to cover the underside of an outdoor roof of transparent corrugated plastic. In looking up this plant, I am a little confused because descriptions note there are no tendrils. While it is easy to train, there are definitely tendrils at least on the young portions of the vine which must be untangled or torn for training the vine.