Aug 6/10 Today I spent some time outside doing a little of this and a little of that. I didn’t take my camera out, unfortunately, so at this point in time you’ll just have to imagine! 1. SilverbellsRick found this and pointed it out to me. On the Silverbell tree are some seed pods. They look like mini.. hmmm.. what are those “star fruit” thingies?? They are really cool to look at and perhaps I’d be able to start a new tree with them?!! 2. Wasp NestI̵...
Hi everyone, Been quite busy and have’nt posted in a while. In the yard yesterday and saw this very busy bumble and thought I would share it with you. I have the small sun flowers as well as the really large variety. The bumbles seem to especially love the large flowers. This is the flower I found the bumble on but scared him off and had to follow to another flower.Threst of the photos are the bumble hard at work.
August 3/10 The third component of the SPICES of Life assessment is “Intellectual” development. Gardening definitely is an asset in this area! Just think about all that you learn about plants, plant care, and plant identification. As gardeners we have to plan and organize – using the space that we have, the weather that we have, the type of soil that we have. We have to pay attention to the signs of what works and what doesn’t work in our gardens; we have to pay ...
It has been three months ago when we’ve announced Container Gardening Chalenge and in the end we all can admire 25 beautiful projects. I would like to thank all contestant who have taken the challenge and posted pictures of their containers. Here are the random winners of our cool GardenTenders T-shirts: Sharad Bon GMman Congrats to the winners! view all 25 entries
The first one of my ‘Hardy Hibiscus’ opened it’s first bloom yesterday. I wanted to show how similar the bloom is to Sharad’s and jroot’s Tropical Hibiscus. And I want to record the first bloom of each plant/bush that I have in my garden, so I can look back next year and compare. I am certain they bloomed much later last year and consequently the last blooms got hit by frost. I plan to keep coming back to this blog to add each new flower as it blooms. So h...
The wall to our communcal car park was repaired and I asked for any left over bricks. I only had in mind a few but was surprised to be given so many (over 100, I’m sure, that it took me 4 hours to move and place them)that I was able to put most of my plant pots on top for better drainage and to heighten them. I also put all the pots on the steps onto two bricks each. The bricks have three oval holes through them! They are the best quality and I got them for free. A truck came only...
July 31/10 It’s been an interesting weekend… “why?” you ask.. well … Two new frog visitors And a bird friend .. poor little guy flew into a window.. but he recovered Garage Sale Treasures.. waiting to find their spot in the garden Plums—- we have about 7 plums, soon to be picked And my apples have been picked. I got about a bushel full, I guess. The container is from our community hall that has now been destroyed.. I got this as one of...
I had just bought a house for my pet ladybird and was about to put it on some bricks when I saw this creature. Can anybody tell me what it is?
July 30/10 The second component of the “SPICES of Life”, in my assessment tool, is “Physical Development”. I think this is an easy one to see—being a gardener means bending, stretching, lifting, and pulling; it means sweating and lots of small muscle work including picking up tiny seeds. I know that for me, the winter season equals a lot of “couch potato” time, working at the computer, reading, and writing. I’m not a winter sports perso...
July 29/10 Here is part of my new sculpture and you can see that it has started the rusting process… Here’s #1 our first and largest fish. .AND our hummingbird moth has returned. This is year 3. . I found this guy in our Japanese Maple
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