Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening, Photography on Jun 17th, 2010
I’m a couple of days late for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, a long running meme started by Carol at May Dreams Gardens, but I still want to share some photos of what’s blooming around Happy Acres in mid-June.
This Gloriosa daisy is a favorite of many pollinators. We set out a few plants in the slope [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jun 12th, 2010
I started to add ‘Warts and All’ to the title, since it seems like many of the photos I took indicate weeding or other work is needed. Regardless, here’s what some of the gardens look like as we near mid-June.
The potatoes in the lasagna bed are starting to bloom. The foliage looks good, and so [...]
Posted in Nature, Photography on Feb 10th, 2010
Posted in Gardening on Oct 30th, 2009
Last year I started what was intended to be a butterfly garden, but which has since morphed into the Wild Garden. Oh, it still attracts lots of butterflies. But shortly after planting it I discovered it attracted much more. The bees arrived long before the butterflies found it. They loved the catmint blossoms, which happened to [...]
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