I haven’t been taking pictures of much lately; mostly just this year’s Baby Cs, but… Diervilla lonicera, and the reason I grow it. One of the reasons, anyway. Standing cypress, and one look at the flowers explains why I grow that. Toadally Awesome, escaping an incredible deluge over the weekend. Looks like he’s been eating […]
Five years ago, I noticed a pretty big poison ivy vine growing on the honeylocust tree down by the creek. I was busy, and didn’t have time to deal with it then, and then forgot about it. When I was clearing honeysuckle in the northwest corner, I noticed a few bits of poison ivy, and […]
Just stuff that is cool. Creepy-crawly and rooted. 🙂 Something seems to be snacking on my Pipevine cats, and for that, I hope whatever it is gets a nasty stomachache, but I do have a few. Convergent Lady Beetle, nomming red aphids (and Christ knows there are enough of them!) on cup plant. Super-cool antlion […]
I already posted the goddamned honeysuckle, and the rest of what I did this weekend is random, including washing a bunch of rugs because I had the pressure washer out to wash the rugs for the front room, but I didn’t take pictures of that. Anyway, just a few pictures. Roxy, because she’s cute, and […]
When it comes to that fucking honeysuckle, there’s always more! If you have ever planted Asian bush honeysuckle or Japanese honeysuckle, then FUCK YOU! Fuck you with a big, thorny stick. I knew it was going to be 90F today, but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and Sunday, so I had little choice. I started […]
Well, potentially. Just a nest so far, but hopefully there will be ugly little babies. I heard the female in the smoketree at night, so I checked the next day. Same spot as last time! Poked the camera in. No eggs yet, but fingers crossed!
Just miscellaneous creatures I found while wandering the yard during Honeysuckle Horror weekend. Roxy, recovered from her respiratory infection, and glad I’ve stopped picking her up to dump drugs on her face! Male Eastern Box Turtle that I ran across while photographing weigela. Teeny-tiny baby Pipevine Swallowtail cats on (of course) Virginia Snakeroot. These are […]
As I was killing honeysuckle (and almost killing me!), I took short breaks to walk around and see all the stuff still to be done, but I was rewarded by pretty things, so there’s that. Lavender almost ready to bloom. Bees will be happy about that! Penstemon ‘Husker Red’ is blooming. Bees are happy about […]
I took last Friday off because I’d finally decided to break down and kill the honeysuckle in the northwest corner. I knew it wasn’t going to be fun…and I was right! I started with basically a solid wall of Asian bush and Japanese honeysuckles. Just to test my battery chain saw, I’d cut a few […]
Guess who lives at my house? The Very Hungry Caterpillar…Caterpillars. I will hazard an educated guess that the culprits are Silvery Checkerspot cats, and while it looks like they’ll kill the coneflowers, they won’t. The foliage will recover, and the flowers will bloom to produce nectar for the adults to do this again next year. […]