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No More Peach Tree
No more peach tree. It was infested all up the trunks (there were multiple trunks due to poor pruning and management) with peach scale bugs that would have been difficult to treat, and after 8 years of losing crops to fungal diseases, we decided to call it quits. I shed some tears as this was a symbolic tree, the one…
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After the bluebird failure this spring, a pair of house wrens moved into the bluebird box on the blackberry trellis. They actually filled both bluebird boxes with nests but only laid eggs in one, which I later learned is common practice. The unused nest is called a “dummy nest”. Once the eggs hatched, we diligently kept the cats indoors to…
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Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ is a plant that has been banished from our fenced vegetable garden because it multiplies and grows well on its own without any attention and is a total space hog because of it. Last fall I dug up the crocosmia corms and moved some down to the street beside the rosemary and moved some just at the bottom…
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Hatteras Island
We spent our first week of summer break on Hatteras Island. We aren’t very good at sitting around in beach chairs and relaxing, as you can see from the pics of our adventures. We obsessed over catching blue crabs in the canal at our rental house and the Haulover, chased the sunsets, paddled the sound, hiked a few trails, rode…
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Hummingbird Moth in Slow Motion
This afternoon we had a very special visitor in the garden. A Hummingbird Moth was drinking from the purple liatris spicata next to the birdbath fountain. I was able to get up close with my phone, although it was a little shy and kept moving behind the flower. Last summer we had one that seemed to enjoy the red salvia…
