
What's in Flight
June 2023

In mid-May flashes of brilliant red lit up the oak trees, especially the ones beside the 87th Street entrance, as multiple Scarlet Tanagers in their blazing red mating plumage were sighted feasting on caterpillars before flying north to their breeding grounds.
Butterfly Bush with Common Buckeye and Brown Belted Bumblebee
Buddleia with Junonia coenia and Bombus griseocollis
Upper Peter Pan Garden Bordering Esplanade

Devil’s Trumpet ‘Ballerina' with Western Honey Bee
Datura ‘Ballerina' with Apis mellifera
Garden East of Large Dog Run

Balloon Flower with Common Eastern Bumblebee
Platycodon with Bombus impatiens
Esplanade Garden North of the Hoop Stairs

Rose of Sharon with Bumblebee
Hibiscus syriacus with Bombus
Southeast Corner of Flagpole Lawn (near Display Case)

Anemone with Western Honey Bee
Anemone with Apis mellifera
Woodland Hills North Garden

Wild Foxglove with Golden Northern Bumblebee
Ceratotheca triloba with Bombus fervidus
Upper Peter Pan Garden Bordering Esplanade

Black-Eyed Susan with Brown Belted Bumblebee
Rudbeckia with Bombus griseocollis
Garden Along Path, Northeast of 89th Street Stairs

Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia indica
Upper Peter Pan North

Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’
Peter Pan Pathway

Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia indica
Garden Northwest of Peter Pan Circle

Dahlia
Dahlia
Esplanade Garden Opposite the Small Dog Run

Verbena bonariensis
Verbena bonariensisl
Upper Peter Pan Garden Bordering Esplanade

‘Tardiva’ Hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata ’Tardiva'
Gracie Mansion Entrance at 88th Street

Wild Four o’clock
Mirabilis jalapla
Garden Bordering Large Dog Run

Garden Phlox 'Nicky Grant’
Phlox paniculata ’Nicky Grant'
Garden at West Edge of Mayor's ‘Lawn’