To be out in the garden this week, is to be accompanied by a chorus. Pictured below are the latest additions to that background chorus.

Cicadas on a hosta

While digging in the garden over the last month, I’d been finding plenty of these guys in my efforts to plant new flowers.
The 13 year cicadas are back in Macon Georgia…. the fish and birds are all going to be happy…
some people are experiencing cicada mania

The temps here in middle GA are consistently reaching the high 80′s, and to go with the Spring weather, here are some native shrubs decked out in their Spring finery for the cicadas to sing from.

Rhododendron

We can’t really grow rhodies here… It’s too hot n dry n stuff. nobody told this one… The few people who are lucky enough to succeed with rhodies keep everyone else trying…

Buckeye bush

I haven’t really seen buckeyes get much larger than this one, which is 10 or 12 feet in height…
The magnolia tree is going to affect the Buckeye’s future spread, in the wild these bushes generally grow wider than they do tall… they aren’t trees…

Mock Orange

Philadelphus pubescens A native shrub, which gets quite large rather quickly…

Virginia Sweetspire

Itea virginica While this bush is a native, and has pretty blooms, I mostly wouldn’t advocate growing it in a small space. Virginia sweetspire has the same growing habit as another native bush I mentioned earlier, the sweet shrub, both send out stolons to form large colonies of bushes.