Barb’s Summer Garden
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Lack of bees in my gardens this summer.
Comments (8)Here in SW Texas I've had way fewer honey bees or other bees, and few butterflies for the past 6 or 7 years and I don't know why, I'm inside the city limits, but there's a lot of unkempt wild green fields around with wild flowers and ponds, and also large old oak trees that wild bees could use to build hives. The wild spaces are due to a 140 acre Boy Scout camp near by, a dry creek and other factors. There are coyotes, deer, raccoons and other wildlife, but few bees, no lightning bugs and very few butterflies. This year I've had hardly any paper wasps show up. It's rather alarming....See MoreMy rose garden last summer
Comments (59)Darren...my instagram is: mrs.rosylady sharon....I agree about whole garden pictures...I love to see them too The style of garden that's my true love is cottage gardening...but it's actually so hard to do! That's what I started with when we bought this house 20 years ago, but because everything grows so rampantly here, I could never get a handle on the weeds and pruning. When I hired a landscape service, it was easier to have a more formal design so they could maintain it, and that's what drove my design for this rose garden: maintenance. I wanted it to be clear what was a plant and what was a weed, so I only have a few companion plants with the roses. Because this garden is so simple in its plant selection, it's easy to keep pruned and weeded. My landscapers comes every Thursday and I work alongside them for the whole day. I love them so much! We have all become friends :) I've mentioned this before, but I have an agreement with my husband: he lets me spend all our vacation money on the garden and in exchange, I go tent camping every summer for 10 days with him and my two kids. It's a win-win! We camp on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. I must admit, I spend a lot of the time reading gardening books by the campfire :)...See MoreMaster Rain Gardener Summer 2020- Amelia
Comments (1)Rain gardens seem to be such a creative way to mitigate storm water runoff and associated pollution issues! The Great Lakes comprise almost a quarter of the entire Earth's fresh water- we need to preserve it for future generations. I have to wonder though, wouldn't it be extremely helpful to, for example, ban pesticide and herbicide use altogether? Why are we (as a society) still giving money to companies like Dow chemical to produce known carcinogens, neurotoxins etc. which are proven to flow into local water sources which many many drink and eat from? I think if the general population were exposed to and educated about the consequences of spraying their lawns for mainly aesthetic purposes, they might realize the weight of the impact. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir : )...See MoreMid-summer blooms in the garden
Comments (20)Skybird - I do have some seed already! Someone contacted me through Houzz last fall asking for some of my seeds that I had posted about several years ago. Fortunately I still had some, but I told her I had no idea if they were still viable. She sent me some of the Chocolate Flower seeds in exchange. I didn't plant all of them, so I could mail you some, or we could meet up. Also, I have several of the plants in a container so I could pot one of them for you if you'd like. I plan to collect the seed now that it's blooming (have 2 flowers right now, and another bud or two), so if you'd rather wait I'll reserve some seed for you! It's kind of an interesting plant even besides the lovely scent and the unusual flower formation. The "Chocolate Fragrance Award" goes to the Chocolate Scented Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata), and also called green-eyed lyre leaf, or lyreleaf greeneyes in reference to the shape of the leaf, which is curved like a lyre and the green disc which is left behind when the ray florets drop off which is thought to look like an eye. Found a site that has a lot of good info on it: https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/berlyrata.htm Here's a pic of the unusual bud:...See Morewoodnative
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