Might want to stake at least that one double budding black eyed susan.
✓ Done
Category: Behind the Scenes
The other bits that help the garden grow.
Did you notice?
In my two milkweed tussock larvae post, I remember seeing the black dots behind the woolly glory and a part of my brain that wasn’t sleepy wondering, “are there younger instar under that leaf?”
So I took a closer look in another shot that showed more of the eaten area where I thought they were, and there sure as heck are. The Count would have been thrilled to have something else to count, and more numerous to boot!
Wait…I don’t live there.
When I was checking on an earlier post to make sure I had fixed a typo, I noticed the wrong town was listed from the locator function we can use on our posts. So I started checking others, and was dismayed to find it wasn’t a one off. Continue reading “Wait…I don’t live there.”
Note to future me #4
Don’t forget to actually utilize the data you’ve collected. Look over it from time to time, especially if you are doing something similar to what you’ve recorded before. (Use that search function on this site too for when you didn’t record things in the plantings list that are relevant to whatever you need to know. It’s easy to forget it’s there some days.)
You’ll be less impatient if you remember maybe you haven’t waited long enough for results because our memory isn’t always as good as we want it to be.
67 days until Autumnal Equinox
Sometime in the last week, I realized that although autumn feels far off, it’s been a longer while since I last photographed snow on the ground (107 days). Continue reading “67 days until Autumnal Equinox”
Weather predictions and reality…
The weather predictors have been swearing for days it will rain doom upon us, and we were lucky to get a brief shower once per day. We had some boomers yesterday eve, but same brief shower.
Twice now in the last half hour, we’ve had showers, boomers starting. Maybe today’s the day?
Ooooo…I think I hear what sounds to be steady rain. Finally?
Note to future me #3
Any time insomnia has kicked in, and you find yourself trying to get a post up before you trundle off to bed whether the sun is in the sky or not yet, preview it entirely TWICE before posting. Also, don’t forget to check your math.
What is it? Part 2
Courtesy Notice: This did get a bit more rambly than planned, but I don’t have time to try to knock it down because I have a promise to keep today.
It finally opened! The other one also suddenly has a second bud forming. So I had to take some pictures. I want to point out that last year I have no photo evidence of anything like that in that bed.
Here’s what’s odd. When I look at my 2018 Plantings notes, I wrote that I planted “Black eyed susans – porch – June 8”. From pictures I’ve looked at, this is a fairly likely candidate but the “porch” designation is supposed to mean something else. Continue reading “What is it? Part 2”
What is it?
So the two about foot tall flowers on the west bed in front of the porch have become a daily (ok, since the petals started showing, multiple times daily) ponderance I feel the need to lift.
I’ve done some comparisons. I’ve sworn at a few plant ID sites that lack the details I wish I could input to maybe get a closer result. Still, I am unsure. Eventually, I hope, I’ll learn what they really are.
The last time I guessed something was a flower, it turned out to be a tree. Last time I thought I found a certain larvae that would grow to be a butterfly, I instead had found a larvae that is growing to be a moth. I’m obviously terrible at the guessing game, but knowing that doesn’t quiet my brain.
Any day now…any day…I will learn.