The fennel out near the street is now over six feet tall and covered with caterpillars that grow into black swallowtail butterflies. We don’t object to their eating the fennel. In fact it is mostly for their benefit that we grow it.
However fennel is a fairly nice plant to grow anyway. […]
Lately we have been exploring some of the smaller nearby towns. Today we resumed the series of weekend journeys that had been interupted by the family picnic and then house guests last weekend.
This time we headed northeast to a little college town called Commerce where Tricia wanted to revisit a quilt […]
As I stepped out this morning to go to the car, I was greeted by the first daylily of the season. This is is the only one to even have buds on it yet, in fact.
My lantana is just beginning to bloom and there are a few pink flowers on the skullcap that I […]
Most advice I’ve read about gardening advises to plant perennials. That seems to be based on the assumption that annuals will only last one year. If that is true then perennials would be the better value not just for the dollar spent but for the labor of putting them in. They get […]
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