lavender + butterfly weedThe garden is blooming with feverfew, Shirley poppies, Pincusion flower (Scabious), Butterfly weed, lavender, rue, nepeta mussinii, and the annuals. Jackmanni Clematis is still producing flowers, but the other clematis vines are done. I put in a new Brunnera, and a few other things in a partly shady/partly sunny bed.I water alot.We did get a nice rain the other day, … [Read more...] about The Garden Blooms, With Flowers and Ticks
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Mr. Brown Thumb’s Lightening Bug
Mr. Brown Thumb has the prettiest picture of a lightening bug. He has gorgeous pictures of about anything he points a camera at. I have the same nostalgic feelings and memories he describes.Although I do have one that probably few of you do: when I was a very little girl my mother was thoughtfully showing me a lightening bug up close. To her surprise I ate it.Of course I had to rely on her … [Read more...] about Mr. Brown Thumb’s Lightening Bug