Raddang...I have squirrels too but I feed the Orioles right outside our bedroom window. The squirrels don't come that close to the house usually...
Our butterfly numbers are way down around here....and if you do see them they are moving so fast like they are on steroids. I have had 1 Monarch...
a lot of people in our area, hire a company to come and weed and clean up their flower beds....I guess you would consider them rich. Big gardens...
We have chipmunk holes mostly in my flower beds...the little stinkers like to dig under my plants. We used to plant our own trees when we first...
Cayuga....I was watching an Oriole this morning, a young one. He was trying to sit on the branch of my cigar plant but his weight kept the small...
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Gorgeous Kildale...do you have to do it discreetly? Around here you just can't dump ashes where people want to be....not sure what they can do but...
Thank you Sjoerd...not bad for through the window, a dirty window in fact...
Great subject and photos....
The orioles are really fun to watch...the young are checking everything out. I have noticed them drinking out of the small bird bath that I have...
OOps...forgot to finish what I was going to say...when the daylily is done blooming I cut the scapes off after they dry. Sometimes you can pull...
Every thing looks so beautiful...it is hard to keep things that are blooming going in a garden. I think I will have a big let down when things...
I understand the worry of everything in a garden being damaged....I have been very lucky here. Sometimes I can't believe how my garden can still...
I love every color in the garden....Very pretty picture.
I deadhead every day just to have a neater garden...Take just the flower head off...make sure you get the whole thing or your daylily will set...
Congratulations...I hope you get to meet him soon
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The young orioles have been here for at least a week. They are just so inquisitive, flying onto the hummingbird feeder, sitting on just about...
I agree with everyone about what a great place to work...I love to deadhead ....
YUCK....I looked it up and it looks like the female pinchers. I have seen smaller ones when we get too much rain in the flower beds but nothing...