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LOVE SOWN GARDEN

lessons from our family garden

  • Milburnie Dam Demolition Part 2

    Saturday morning, we opted to skip the Christmas parade, and Joe and the kids played video games instead. By 10:30 am, I was chomping at the bit to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. Joe had not yet seen the Milburnie Dam demolition, so we went out for a hike. I love being in the woods with Joe, because he always finds new things to explore. We went around the dam to the side I had not yet ventured…

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  • Milburnie Dam Demolition Part 1

    One of the joys of being a work-at-home mom is that when events show up in my news feed, I can drop everything and go on an adventure. This happened with the cathedral dome rising back in March of 2016. I showed up with a small crowd of onlookers and got to witness the placement of a copper dome that would outlive generations to come. Yesterday I saw a post about the demolition of the historic Milburnie Dam on the…

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I wash a lot of pants and water a lot of plants in downtown Raleigh.

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Green frog looking at me looking at him Red Toch garlic and a stick of butter. This tastes amazing even on stale bread crust! How amazing is this frog I just spotted on the pond waterfall?! I’m so happy to see it. The spots are just gorgeous! https://www.instagram.com/p/DAqWs7MOTJk/ We’ve had a lot of rain! Heart A’busting - Euonymus Americanus Look what I found while plugging in new plants! This is definitely not a bullfrog. It may be a Southern Leopard Frog. I finally joined the NC Native Plant Society so I could go on “plant rescues”, meet like-minded people and hopefully learn a few things. These rescues are trips to sites about to be cleared and leveled for building developments, with express permission from the property owner for the group at a set time. I attended my second rescue yesterday. While it’s exciting to get to dig up plants to take home to my own yard, it’s also really sad to walk through woodlands and know they are about to be razed. I came home with spicebush, pawpaw, Christmas ferns, moss, rattlesnake orchid and spleenwort. Other members dug up blueberry bushes, umbrella magnolia, a crane fly orchid and other things I didn’t catch the names of. If you are interested in joining, I’d encourage you to do it. You don’t have to know Latin names of plants (I sure don’t), and you can participate at whatever level you have time for. I thought it might just be for retirees, but at yesterday’s rescue, there were all ages. Check them out if only just to get ideas of what to add to your yard that will help the local pollinators. I’ve used their website as a personal resource for years. https://ncwildflower.org It’s a great day to sit at the pond

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