African Violets and Gesneriads: First of June Blooms, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Oh, soo pretty Gail! I only had one trailer AV a few years ago and loved it. It was one I lost last fall when something got to a lot of my plants.

Love that Vanda. I hung all of my orchids out in the tree a few weeks ago and drat if the birds aren't picking through and stealing the LFS from the baskets! I've had two orchids I found dead on the ground below the tree, another one missing totally (wonder if the birds decided they wanted to decorate their nest with a blooming orchid? Almost all of the labels have been either blown out of the baskets or the birds/squirrels are taking them out ... now I have no idea what's what! I think I'm going to have to pile orchid bark on top of the spaghnum moss in hopes the birds can't do more damage. Of course I see squirrels in that tree all the time too, they could be burying nuts. As much as I love critters, I sure wish they would stay out of my plants! I have a couple of buds on orchids too ... don't have a clue which ones they are but I will still enjoy the flowers once they open!

I was sitting out in the backyard on the bench this evening and heard a dove cooing, but it was different than the many darker gray mourning doves we have all over the neighborhood. I got my bird book out and found that it's called a ringed turtledove. From what I've read it must have escaped from it's cage because there are no known wild populations anymore. These are the ones used by magicians and sold as pets. It's such a pretty dove, it was eating at one of the feeders so I sure hope it can survive in the wild.

This message was edited Jun 6, 2008 9:03 PM