A picture-perfect monarch butterfly, fresh out of its chrysalis, was sipping nectar from a pot of dwarf Black-eyed Susans on our deck this morning. Summer wouldn't be summer without both of them, monarchs and Susans. And the latter are in full bloom in meadows and along roadsides throughout the Hudson Valley as July winds down, with butterflies of all colors fluttering in for nourishment while nectar-drinking bees buzz busily about. Black-eyed Susans at Greenwich 约炮视频 Center. (By Les Line) As the late New England naturalist Hal Borland noted in our book A Countryman's Flowers, "Black-eyed Susan's eyes aren't really black at all. They are a purplish-brown." Thus another colloquial name, one that you seldom hear anymore, is "Brown Betty." This cheerful and vigorous wildflower with golden-orange rays that often twist and curl is a native of Midwestern prairies, but it crossed the Mississippi ages ago and is found today from Newfoundland to Alabama. A member of the aster family...