Honey Bees finally found the Lavender!
Tag: #bees
Silent Sunday – Pollinating a Sour Cherry Tree
Pollinators have found my dwarf sour cherry trees!
Six on Saturday – Spiders and Things
Spiders, Bees and Cherry Tomatoes provide colour in the garden this week!
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!
Where are the Bees and Butterflies?
Where are the #bees and #butterflies this year?
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
