Learning to See the Beauty of Nature in Our Gardens
It is a foggy morning in Topanga Canyon. Squirrel chomps away on a walnut from his tree branch, while up above a Red-Tailed Hawk glides by screaming, screaming .. He’s been doing this for days now. “What is he saying?” asks Squirrel. “Wish I knew,” I reply. My first thought was: maybe Hawk is thirsty. [...]
Photo courtesy of Las Pilitas nursery “Why not stay on with us and be jolly?” Ratty, Wind in the Willows Ah, the late afternoon sun in the native garden, how it warms my face. I wait for my friends, the hummingbirds. I hear them clicking in the trees and know that they will be here soon. [...]
At Seattle Fling 2011, this year’s incarnation of the garden bloggers’ get together, I achieved a wildlife photographic milestone and I owe it all to this plant, Crocosmia ’Lucifer’. I do not current grow this plant, but I will definitely be adding some to my garden, as it is hardy to Zone 5. And here is [...]
Checking in from the book-writing trenches to report the results of my informal Monday morning poll of our 2011 hummingbirds’ favorite plants blooming right now at Turkey Hill Brook Farm. We had a late spring in central MA, and a lot of earlier spring wild flowers are still blooming along with the June regulars such [...]
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