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Category: What I Learned Today

September 9, 2022September 8, 2022Chris Mousseau

Dahlia vs Earwig

Whoever thought earwigs were beneficial insects?

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September 6, 2022September 5, 2022Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Daylily ‘proliferation’

I learned a new way to propagate daylilies!

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October 7, 2020Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Boston Fern Propagation

A rescued Boston fern is so happy it’s producing babies.

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September 5, 2019September 5, 2019Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Tea Bag Tantrum

Don’t throw your tea bag into the compost!

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August 20, 2019August 19, 2019Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Cross Pollination

Never knew pumpkins and spaghetti squash got on so well together!

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July 17, 2019July 16, 2019Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today: Honey Bee Hive Maintenance

Honey Bees in the back field!

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June 26, 2019June 25, 2019Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today: Magnolia tripetala

Today I learned what a ‘sepal’ is.

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June 19, 2018June 25, 2018Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Stachys – another kind of corn

A good friend and wonderful gardener told me last weekend that she cuts off the flower stalks from Lamb’s Ears – Stachys byzantina!  I was a bit aghast, but she said she found the flowers a distraction when the main attraction was the soft fuzzy leaves that form a woolly groundcover.  Turns out she’s not […]

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May 22, 2018Chris Mousseau

What I Learned Today – Beetle Bath

I’ve been finding these beetles making waves in my bird bath this past week.  Sometimes doing the back stroke, sometimes the dog paddle, occasionally a pair of them would be doing some sort of synchronized dance, preparing for the beetle Olympics, no doubt. At first I was alarmed, thinking some horrible invasive species had arrived […]

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May 7, 2018Chris Mousseau

Ephemeral in The County

On Saturday I noticed a few of these dainty yellow flowers opening by the driveway.  Come Sunday afternoon the leaf littered floor of the entire tree line was covered with Trout Lily.  Just like that. Other native spring ephemerals just in bloom include a flower I used to call woodland Geranium.  I kinda knew it […]

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