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butter-colored butterfly
There was a lovely visitor around the lakefront in NH for a few days – an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail – and she put on a nice show. Even when she was resting.
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a welcome stranger
A month ago I noticed a lily stalk I had never planted in my garden and have been watching the progress when I remember to look. Last night at dusk I saw that the unopened flowers would be orange, and...
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success – coreopsis rosea
I have had a yellow coreopsis moonbeam in my perennial garden for so many years but it really never took off, with few blooms each year. I found a lone, nice gallon size pot of pink coreopsis this...
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colorful “candy”
I’m a little surprised enough of these delicious, sweet Sun Gold tomatoes made it to the strainer for a salad….usually several are eaten right off the vine!
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witch hazels in autumn
My 3 witch hazels are really showing off right now. Each of my winter-blooming ones has its own fall leaf color, as seen below: aurora blue moon while my fall-blooming one has a flowering kind of...
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winter apples
This past fall was a record year for acorns and apples. While our neighbors’ acorns finished falling by Thanksgiving, many apples on our tree are enjoying being very ornamental. A few do fall off...
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A Burst of Bittercress
My cousin and I were talking on the phone recently about a weed that is a real nuisance in her yard and surrounding yards – in the grass and in the gardens, and that even though she spends hours taking...
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the groundhog was wrong
It’s still February and this year (give or take a possible few inches of snow on occasion over the next month) it really feels like spring is mostly on its way. Warmer temperatures on a somewhat...
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flore pleno – my latest snowdrops
I planted lots of new bulbs last fall and what I love about the time lapse between then and now is how much I forget what I planted! Every day now I see another surprise poking out of the ground. I...
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an aptly named bush
It’s the time of year when the stalks of butterfly bushes attract certain identified flying objects. Hummingbirds for one, and of course, butterflies. Here is a beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
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