It seems every time we pick more parsley for the caterpillars, we also bring in a caterpillar or two. Or three. We’re up to 15 or 16. So some of the cats in the fish tank are very small and some are getting very large! I think we have every instar represented in the [...]
Category Archives: our garden
baby caterpillars
August 30, 2008 – 11:38 pm
We found butterfly eggs on the parsley in the garden and brought in a few sprigs of parsley to hatch the eggs.
Today we have six little caterpillars on the parsley.
In a few days I’ll post the set up of the fish tank we use for raising caterpillars.
~~Rhonda
potting proliferations
August 29, 2008 – 3:06 pm
Little plants, called proliferations, sometimes grow from the daylily flower stem. When the stem starts to turn brown, we cut them off and pot them.
Here’s a closeup of one.
A week ago last Wednesday, DH potted 27 daylily proliferations. ‘Little Fat Dazzler’ had 17. It was loaded with them last year, too. The other plants had [...]
a few garden pics
August 21, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Yesterday, DH and I worked in the garden a bit. We pulled grass and weeds from the lettuce beds and prepared them for a fall crop. I took a few pictures around the yard.
The garlic chives are beginning to bloom. The flower stalks are pretty in a large group, making a striking picture. I [...]
the garden in august
August 19, 2008 – 4:36 pm
Seems that fall is trying to inch its way in. The garden has that look…kind of tired. Parts are overrun with weeds, parts have plants that are just beginning their trip into dormancy with leaves starting to turn yellow. The dogwood tree has a few red leaves on it, and the elm trees along [...]
a little weeding, a little pondering
August 15, 2008 – 10:41 pm
We’ve been having some cool weather (cool for August in this part of the world anyway). I spent some time outside pulling weeds on the north side of the fenced garden.
There is a small path of stones that leads between the fence and the snowball bush. It gets a bit weedy sometimes… [...]
daylilies
July 22, 2008 – 10:51 am
The daylilies are beautiful. We are just past peak bloom, but the yard is still loaded with color.
‘Kindly Light’
‘Monterrey Jack’
‘Baja’
‘Shell Drake, MI’
‘Pink Super Spider’
‘Royal Ebony’
‘Elegant Candy’
‘Moonlit Masquerade’
Aren’t they beautiful?
~~Rhonda
anniversary day
June 26, 2008 – 10:43 am
DH and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary this week by visiting Wine Country Gardens. We’ve been there several times in the past seven or eight years. We’ve purchased quite a few daylilies from them. This year we picked up only two new ones, but it’s hard to find something different when you have more [...]
the garden in transition
June 2, 2008 – 11:11 pm
The yard is moving from spring to summer. The soft colors of irises and peonies will soon give way to the harder yellows and oranges and reds of daylilies. I must say the peonies have been holding onto spring. We’ve never had them open so late. And seldom have any blooming now, but [...]
walking the yard
May 30, 2008 – 3:30 pm
DH and I love to walk the yard. And if we say, “No computer while we’re out,” DD will tag along. Not to mention all the kitties.
The peonies are beautiful right now. Most are caged to keep the blossoms up, but those that aren’t have fallen with the rain we had Sunday [...]