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July 21, 2019July 20, 2019Chris Mousseau

Silent Sunday – Bee the Lavender

Honey Bees finally found the Lavender!

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May 26, 2019May 26, 2019Chris Mousseau

Silent Sunday – Pollinating a Sour Cherry Tree

Pollinators have found my dwarf sour cherry trees!

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September 15, 2018September 14, 2018Chris Mousseau

Six on Saturday – Spiders and Things

Spiders, Bees and Cherry Tomatoes provide colour in the garden this week!

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September 1, 2018September 1, 2018Chris Mousseau

Six on Saturday – five bees and a strawberry

It’s the last long weekend of the summer – I’ll be relaxing but the bees are as busy as ever!

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July 25, 2018July 25, 2018Chris Mousseau

Where are the Bees and Butterflies?

Where are the #bees and #butterflies this year?

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October 22, 2017October 20, 2017Chris Mousseau

A Glow that Attracts…

This is one of the reasons I love the bright yellow glow of Goldenrod (Solidago sp.) and one of the reason I cut it back in early summer — to encourage late season flowers to help feed a multitude of pollinators.  How many can you spot? Glow

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August 22, 2017August 22, 2017Chris Mousseau

Native vs Non Native gardening

I recently started following the Royal Horticultural Society on Twitter (@The_RHS); I’m not sure how this feed came to my attention, likely it was Twitter itself, that clever creature, that suggested it.  It was a good suggestion.  Even though it’s a British organization, and the information they share is abut British gardening and British plants […]

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August 21, 2017August 21, 2017Chris Mousseau

Sunday Surprise

I’m seriously serious about composting.  Almost the first thing we did after buying our Prince Edward County property was build this huge compost bin.  I think I had seen something like it on a BBC gardening show.  I think we had fantasies of being able to drive the shovel of a small garden tractor into […]

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April 24, 2017April 24, 2017Chris Mousseau

it’s all about the daffodils…

  Late April in the garden means yellow everywhere – Narcissus in all sizes plus Forsythia and the early Tulips.  I love it!  As a bonus, it looks like the Fritillaria persica will bloom!  One of them, anyway…really looking forward to seeing up close and in person what they look like, then putting in more […]

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