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Friday, April 02, 2010

A Telling Time for Cottonwoods

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One of my simple pleasures in spring is sexing the cottonwoods I see as I drive. (Yes, I know I'm weird.) Only female cottonwoods produc...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Monarch Watch - And a 1-2-3 Recipe to Aid Recovery

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Buried in a small article in the paper this morning was a very sad news article: monarch butterfly populations have declined to their lowest...
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Heirloom Crocuses

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I'm starting to reap the benefits of last fall's frenzied rush to get my heirloom bulbs in the ground. The first of the heirloom bul...
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Spring Cleanup

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With snow on the way tomorrow, I gambled and decided to clean off the remnants of last year's growth from the front garden bed. It's...
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Monday, March 08, 2010

Waste Not, Want Not

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I was reading through this spring's issue of OnEarth from the Natural Resource Defense Council over the weekend and came across an envi...
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

Confessions of a Plant-a-Holic

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Sometimes I feel like a huge imposter when I call myself a Master Gardener. This afternoon is definitely one of those times.... You see, la...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Season of Red-Wing Song

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There are certain times of the year that beg to be recognized for the natural energy pulsing through them, and this feels like one of those ...
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A Scary Thought

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In an Organic Gardening magazine I was thumbing through recently, I came across the following statistic: If a single aphid lived her full ...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Life, Death, Love and Pets; or The Hawk and the Turtle

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I've been a bad blogger. A very bad blogger. It's been almost 6 months since I last posted. For better or for worse, though, I'm...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Solely Solidago Again (or Glowing Goldenrods, Part III)

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At last we're getting to the goldenrods that are currently in bloom. The classic one is Canada goldenrod, Solidago canadensis . It's...
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Solely Solidago (or Glowing Goldenrod, Part II)

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I warned you that I love goldenrod and would be posting more about it. Well, this is that dreaded post...because now is goldenrod season. In...

They HAD To Exist....And We Proved That They Do!

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Prairiewolf and I actually found a mythical creature the other day...and I have a photo to prove it. All our lives, we have found adult box...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Words Worth a Thousand Pictures

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I'm reading William Least Heat-Moon's latest book, Roads to Quoz . Normally I wait until I finish a book before I do a "book r...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Battle for Life and Death in a Blue Haze

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When we left off our last post, we had introduced a dead monarch butterfly at the base of a Black Adder Agastache and at least one wheel bug...

Bending My "Rules" a Bit for Blue

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In my front flower garden, I've been evolving a policy of "natives only." I'm not completely sure why I picked that bed to...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Tallgrass Time

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It's the month of tallgrass lengthening. The big bluestem ( Andropogon gerardii ) has shot up and its flowers are open on the tall spike...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Harvest is Pouring In, Part 3

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So that leaves us with the squash, the potatoes and onions. The squash is actually a summer squash called Costata Romanesca. I planted all o...

The Harvest is Pouring In, Part 2

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Continuing around the tabletop display, the next tomato to the right is Old Virginia. This is another new variety for us. We have 2 vines pl...

The Harvest is Pouring In

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I'm having a grand time taste-testing all of the different vegetable varieties we've grown this summer. There are several new ones a...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Serendipity in Stone

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While shopping at an estate sale last week, I noticed this little stone bench almost hiding in the ivy. It wasn't priced, but I asked an...
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Gaia Gardener:
First it was bugs in jars. Then it was toad races in the sand box. Next, I obsessed over seashells and all the animals living in tidal pools and along the shore. Finally I went to college and studied biology, accidentally becoming a birder and amateur entomologist along the way. Raising a family gave me the impetus to start gardening. Now, many years later, I have come full circle back to bugs, though rarely do I catch them in jars any more. The more I learn, the more fascinated I become with the intricate web of biological connections surrounding us every day. Wasps that lay their eggs on paralyzed grasshoppers. Mosquitoes that prey on other mosquito larvae. Flea beetles that will only consume plant material from one genus of plants. What I can observe and learn in my own backyard is staggering. By caring for that yard organically, the small world that I provide for a huge variety of creatures is enlightening, enlivening, and enriching. How can anyone ever get bored?!
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