Beetle on a Tea Olive / by Pamela Garland

This is a ladybug that I discovered on the tea olive as I was walking around the yard. It was most cooperative for its photo session. The tea olive doesn’t have prominent flowers but it has the most wonderful, subtle fragrance. We have these throughout the yard and I’ll take their fragrance over roses any day! Between the tea olive, roses, honeysuckle and jasmine we have a very perfumed summer backyard.