Finally! Something from my lazy canna! My first fully open yellow flower. I think this will be Crimson Crush. Fireball is still lazy, but I think I’ll get a bloom or two. Also, yay for my reluctance to pull anything I’m not positive is a weed! I couldn’t imagine what these leaves with the reddish […]

Stuff The mystery green tree beside the purple smoke tree is some kind of hydrangea, but I haven’t been interested enough to bother to find out what kind. Grapeleaf Skeletonizer moth on…water pickerel. All three of my Lowe’s hardy hibiscus, blooming at the same time. Mostly I took this so I’ll remember which one is […]

Didn’t do much; wrangled the fence vines, deadheaded some cosmos and watered a few things that really needed it. Still, found a couple of friends. Stilt bug orgy on the evening primrose. Which finally has a bloom. Well, it did this morning. Beardtongue, just because it’s pretty. Cleaned my bathroom. Almost don’t want to use […]

It was too hot yesterday and I was too busy, so… I planted the shade stuff I got earlier in the week. Two Astilbe, two “Firefly” Heuchera, and one Digitalis. I finished extending the bed to the end of the patio and edged it with the old, weathered bricks I got from T a while […]

Didn’t do much this week except water, but there are still a few things. The rare cabbage cicada. I have no idea what it was doing there, but it was alive. One Grey Stick blooming. If Tree Dude doesn’t soon get his ass over here, I’m asking for a refund and getting someone else. Surprise […]

I love you, Linux Mint with Mate–you are what Ubuntu was before Canonical made it suck balls! Since /home lives on a separate partition, all I had to do was back up my Samba configuration, export my list of installed software (just in case there was something I needed; haven’t used it yet), and do […]

Just a few little dudes I’ve found. Taken with Canon, not phone. Pie crust butt. I know they’re technically pests, but they’re so goddamned cute. Baby Tenodera. I’ve seen quite a few mantises this year, but they seem to be growing kind of slowly. Maybe it’s just faulty memory, but it seems to me that […]

It’s Wednesday and I haven’t done much beyond water what absolutely needed it and bitch about the lack of rain, but a few pretty things… Plum Crazy Kopper King The mallow I didn’t pull out because I thought it was a weed. The Patio Petunias. They are grateful, I think. Surprise lilies I pulled out […]

Poor little guy. I found him this afternoon, but when I came back a few hours later, in his place was a Psillopsis assassin bug. 🙁 He was on my expensive ‘Soulmate’ milkweed. I’ll add a picture of the culprit if I think of it later.   Here’s the culprit…Psillopsis barberi.   Probably the only […]

Not that I’ve accomplished a great deal, but… Thursday, I think. I don’t remember whether I took any pictures Friday.  Maybe not; I was exhausted. Anyway, I think this might be today. Kopper King. My biggest Sugar Baby. The beardtongue bloomed for me; it had spent blooms on it when I got it, but I […]