I have a couple of books I have been looking thru and doing Google searches for butterflies in Sinapore but nothing any thing like yours yet....
Last year I kept a good sized bucket in the bathtub and used a half-gallon Rubbermaid pitcher to carry water from it to the plants out back and in...
Actually, Gaylyn, she isn't far from right. Put a bucket in the tub and catch the shower water. You can switch to a shampoo and bathsoap that is...
Not much worth noting blooming in my garden this month but I do have a few Glads trying to survive. This one was broken when a large blackbird...
Gertie said 'No Way' then Bertha said 'Way' then Gertie said 'unhuh' then Bertha said.....
If you use the undiluted vinegar you will need to get the 20% vinegar. That is not the household vinegar from the grocery store, but many garden...
Sunny, hot, sunny, hot...dadgum I am getting tired of this weather. Might be a cool down coming, only upper 90's later this week, woohoo....
Everything is just gorgeous. Like Eileen, there is no way I can pick a favorite....well, I tell a lie cause actually the Hollyhock is my favorite...
I did some looking around the web and found info that stress and the pH in soil can change the color of almost all plants. And the other plants...
Looks like a male Tawny Crescent http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/butterfli ... escent.htm
Most of the Golden Marguerite daisys are compact mounds like yours, I think the one in that picture might be a slightly different cultivar or...
Check this out and see if it looks like yours.
Wow, there is even one in the photo with 7 fused petals. I wonder why the descriptions I found said 5 like that was the limit for the...
Not sure about Campanula, everything I have seen shows the flower with 5 fused petals but this one has 6.
Blistering morning and broiling day all. 101 yesterday, should be about 103 today. I will start full blown whining about this heat any day now. I...
Both are beautiful. I wish the city council had left the color of the bricks alone, the whitish color is okay but the red would have been much...
Beautiful photos Tom. I like the brown rock backdrop, really shows up the red flower well.
Keep up hope. You might not see any growth this year but the roots could survive, grow stronger the rest of the season and come back next spring.
That appears to be a female Pipevine Swallowtail. http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecolo ... owtail.htm
Boysenberry is a cross between a blackberry and raspberry so they will look alike, but it shouldn't have thorns. It sounds like the plants were...
