Cool weather revives hostas too

Usually the hostas flower in June and that’s it. But now with the cool weather, a clump of hostas up on the hill are flowering again. They even have bumblebees in them, getting pollen pasted on their butts. It’s nice to see them flower again, but it feels like another sign of weird weather this […]

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Return of the cool

The cool weather coming back has brought the comeback of the Alpine strawberries. Once again, they’re good for a small handful of intensely ripe little dots of sweetness. It’s nice, but I feel like the weather is getting cooler quicker than usual this year.  I’m not used to hearing frost warnings in September. Maybe we […]

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This bird knows I’m not a cat

When I went out in the yard, I was impressed by how boldly this Mourning dove walked right up to me. It’s even bolder than it’s cousin the pigeon. After all, it knows I’m not a cat. Maybe it thinks I’ll be intimidated by its feathered dinosaur ancestors. But most likely, it knows I’m the […]

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Soldier fly on the brink

One of the great things about making compost is that it pretty much takes care of making itself. All you really do is pile up weeds and leaves, and wet it down. Everything else is just finding the right container. I love my tumblers, but I pull weeds faster than I empty the tumblers. So […]

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A day of good bee hunting

I enjoyed hosting today on the Life-Friendly Garden Tour. Nice people stopped by and let me show off my bees. If you’re interested at all in bees, you know about honeybees going missing. If you want to help honeybees, the best way is to keep a hive. It’s not hard, so they say, and it […]

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Sorry to be boring

It’s so nice to finally have a nice enough day to spend some time in the garden, digging and weeding and sweeping. Oh, and I saw a couple of little bees on the mystery plant: a black one and a one with a striped tail.  No pictures today, sorry, and not much else to say.

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