On the Mississippi River…
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| Prairie restoration at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL – Late Winter |
Hurry Spring! I’ve had about all the brown I can take!
Working hard on that new list of tomato and pepper plants for Spring!
Last chance to add to it! Leave a comment here or at my site LilsGarden.net
I laugh when I see violets listed in garden catalogs.
In my garden, it is a weed! But I love them anyway and usually let them have their way in my flowerbeds. They tend to take over where other perennials wont grow and make a nice ground cover.
A tiny beneficial wasp who’s name I’m not positive of. I did a search on the internet and came up with –Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumonidae). She’s about as long as my pinky fingernail or 6mm ( I don’t have long fingernails).
They are harmless to us but deadly to the cabbage worms and aphids that eat my perennials!
To me, the insects are just as interesting as the flowers!
Go here to see the opposite end of the scale for black wasps in my garden -> Giant Black Wasp
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| Jeanne La Joie |
My favorite little rose. Jeanne La Joie is a nice hardy, miniature climbing rose.
She blooms all summer, with at least two major flushes, first in early summer and the second late summer/early fall, with sporadic blooms in between, up until freezing weather hits.
With our mild temps through most of fall and into winter, I had blooms up until early December!
She is a good little climber for Zones 5a – 10b.and grows anywhere from 4 – 10 feet tall.
Getting a little cabin fever, so I’m going to share one of last summers pictures.
(Come on Spring!)
Most people, when they move to a new house, take with them their furniture, china and other household possessions. I made sure all my favorite plants came with me.
An assortment of trees, shrubs and perennials, waiting for spring and a spot in a new flowerbed.
A little thistle, a little sunflower seed and Voila!
This is what I saw when I opened my curtains this morning…
Apparently Squirrels can climb shepard hooks. Silly me for thinking they couldn’t!
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