Morning all. We’re so glad to see blue sky and bright sun today. Yesterday was a rain event that turned into a blizzard. The winds were 40 to 50...
Willow- we finally did get some snow, three different waves if it but not amounting to much. Around 5-6 inches. It’s melting quickly as the temps...
Logan, sure hope you mend quickly and feel better. We all take this as a cautionary tale that we must take care at all times to prevent injuries....
Sjoerd- I am truthfully longing for a real winter with snow! I do like the warmer days but it teases us with thoughts of spring, and that is...
I keep busy indoors with my extensive collection of houseplants. I do the rounds every day to check their needs and do primping and such. I pruned...
Get everyone! Happy 2025. Here in the central US ; Nebraska, we are having another mild dry Winter so far. I’m not certain we’ve had more than 4...
I love Ducks! A few years ago, we had a pair of Mallards that came to spend the days in our back garden. They got very used to us and were fun to...
Netty, Hope your day is wonderful also. Warm regards. And please redirect some of your snow to me in central US
Oh Netty My heart breaks for you and your family. Such a shocking loss. Life hands us all some tough things to go through. Speechless describes it...
[ATTACH] This is two Korean Spice Viburnums. I bought them and planted them at the same time several years ago. I always find it interesting that...
Believe it or not this Fothergilla was in the trash pile destined for compost at the nursery I used to work at. I rescued it and it has been...
[ATTACH] One of my favorites putting on its colorful show. Fothergilla
I have used pot shards for years, but have noticed that depending on the potting mix, sometimes they block drainage. I tried coffee filters and...
It looks like my Millennium Allium
I leave Hardy Hibiscus standing over winter , then watch for the new growth to sprout in Spring. (It is late!) Then prune them down about 6 to 8...
All I’ve been doing is watering! We are back into drought conditions and it’s showing in landscape plants around my neighborhood. I am on the...
So Bob went out at dusk to apply delta dust to the nest. It’s been about 18 hours, and we still see the wasps flying in and out of the nest. Hmmm...
Clay- we actually did this as a first response when we realized there was a nest. We used Dawn but mixed it with water, so it didn’t do a thing....
Sjoerd-I just read your latest post, and it kind of answers my question. I was going to ask, why Ant powder, and how it works. Bob found some...
Cayuga, oh my! That’s a bad memory ! Yikes! I looked into the ant powder and did some more reading. I resent not being comfortable in that garden...
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