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#261 |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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Thank you linrose. Since you are a frequent photographer you know I had to take quite a few pictures to get a good one. Thanks for the butterfly id. I briefly looked in my book but didn't see it. One of many good winter projects ...read my wildlife and plant books. There were several painted ladies on the flowers. AND after tomorrow when I have my new window installed I will be able to see those flowers from my living room! Yeah!
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#262 | |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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#263 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Until I get some large sections seeded as meadow/eastern prairie, I think I'll continue to struggle with the property. As for creating a snag from the Norway maple, I'm all for that! (Assuming there is no danger of it falling on your house.) Keep us posted with your progress. Here is a link you may enjoy: Snags & how to create them
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#264 | |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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#265 |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Yippee!
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#266 | |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I'm all for planting more shrubs too, they sure are easier to maintain than a garden bed of grasses and forbs. I'm staring at a sea of weeds I need to tackle before winter right now. Tomorrow I'm going to a native plant nursery which is having it's fall sale. I have a list of shrubs I'd like and a few woodland plants will probably find their way home with me too. My bare-root ferns that I planted last fall didn't make it this spring. The little corner of the woodland I planted is doing OK, I planted too many spring ephemerals so there are lots of bare spots after they go dormant. I'd like to add some wild ginger and Tiarella there. The leaf mulch is breaking down well so I'll have more places to plant. It's about time to start chopping and mulching leaves now. I'm going to try to head off next spring's weed crop by mulching the terraces this fall instead of waiting until spring. |
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#267 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Some blooms still hanging on despite a late summer drought. It's great to see there's still food for the bumbles and late skippers.
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#268 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I just had to post this. With the winter storm we've been having I was out taking photos of the ice and saw one of my summer pots had pansies blooming away bravely! The Detroit/Philadelphia football game is a whiteout! I normally don't like football but I like to see them playing in the snow! If you're near Philly you're getting some of that white stuff now.
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#269 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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It is December and you still have one of those brave pansies blooming! I guess you are in Kentucky, but by the sound of it, it surprises you. I meant to post a picture of a late blooming phlox...it bloomed twice, the second time while the rest of the plant was going to seed. I'll have to go back and look for the photo..it was in November I think, and after some freezes. Truth be told, I was hoping to add my blooms to this thread...but the blooming season came and went without me posting AGAIN--second year in a row for me. I hope to do better next year.
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#270 |
Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Hoorah for pansies and phlox! (But I'm ready for some of Viceroy's Florida pictures about now...)
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