I plant nasturtiums for their lovely edible leaves.
A little amateur sleuthing … stress on amateur … leads me to think the little black ladybug-type insects crawling on my moonflower (ipomea Alba) vines are Heteroptera Pentatomoidea Thyreocoridae . How’s that for a mouthful?
Since reading about local bats dying off from white nose syndrome we’ve kept a close eye out for evening bat flights. Earlier this year, we saw none circling above and around our house, but recently we’ve seen quite a few, as have our neighbors. Can’t definitively say the local numbers are smaller than last year, but we definitely don’t have more bats flitting around.
Gardeners and plant lovers in and near Connecticut might want to put some time aside this weekend to visit Ballek’s Garden Center . On July 17 and 18 this well-established and much loved nursery holds their Huge Garden Tag Sale.
She joined our family a year ago today. She tugs on our hearts with her discerning stares …
It appears that my blog has been hacked. Bear with me while I fix what some moron or group of morons or a bunch of moronic program geeks has done. At least one post has disappeared - comments and all - and my About page is gone. Perhaps I’ll find more of my work destroyed by some faceless hack - time will tell.
Yesterday was a pretty good day in the garden in spite of record heat – 85 degrees in the shade at 9:30 am and 98 degrees in the same shade at noon.
Here it is July 1 already.
An article in the New York Times offers some interesting food for thought – reflections on 40 years of Earth Days and the current thoughts from Stewart Brand. Those as old and older than I might remember that name as the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog way back in 1968
