Hi Daff, welcome to the Stew from north Texas. Glad you joined us. I too love planting for wildlife and am having the best time this year with...
Hi Jo, welcome to the Stew from north Texas. You have some lovely lillies in your album. I grow two kinds so far, the Stella d'oro and Grape...
The four caterpillars on the Fennel plants have disappeared. The last time they were seen they were large, roughly two inches long and fat from...
Morning all. Overcast and supposed to storm this afternoon. This is the last day of the school year for most of the schools in this area. The...
Morning all. Overcast and muggy here, I should be out in the yard but all the driving and walking we did over the weekend and sleeping on a...
Julie, I meant share more pictures of the hollyhocks but if you have some seeds later to share I will gladly trade for them :-D :-D
They love full sun and as many hours as they can get. I think I would put them in the ground tho, they do like their water. I had some planted...
Gorgeous flowers Julie. Share more of the Hollyhocks please, I finally have some of the standard ones growing but I have my doubts about them...
I have seen compost piles made using chicken wire for the 'walls' or the wood pallets you see in trash piles outside of businesses all the time....
From the pictures I have found, it should be a gorgeous addition to the garden. Be sure to take pictures for us when it blooms.
I just remembered something I saw at a boutique about 8 years ago. Secure the end of a length of wicking, the kind used in kerosine lamps, to the...
Is it possible to enclose your porch with screening? That might be the only way to keep them off the porch. Birds tend to land where they want and...
Okra is definitely a hot climate plant. Here in north Texas you put the seeds in the ground and stand back cause they will get to be a 4ft x 3 ft...
Echium candicans or Echium fastuosum and the Echium Vulgare that I have are all members of the Borage family. I don't have any info on how long...
Hi Paul, welcome to the Stew. Usually after a few days of finding no food out for them the birds will find other places to feed and leave...
We got home Sunday evening to find that the plant with no name had bloomed!! The flowerette at the top of each stalk started budding and blooming...
When we got home Sunday evening, I went wandering around the yard and found that the flowers in the large wood planter box had been smushed down....
Woooohoooo, I love stepping out in the back yard this year. Everytime I do many different kinds of butterflies are flitting around all over the...
I think you are right Zuzu, they both look remarkably like the picture at this link. Individual close up pictures of the others would be best,...
Thanks for the well wishes for our anniversary. We did have a great time at the BnB. The faces at the Inn were not that startling....except that...
