Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #100!, 2 by scarletbean

scarletbean wrote:
I think I messed up! I found out that Salvia Guaranitica is a very late returner. Sometimes you wont see it coming back til mid May. Well I dug my black and blues up and pitched the carcasses in the brush pile. Now I find out it might have come back if I had just given it more time. ***sigh***
another lesson learned the hard way. @*#& !!
Shorthog - I am partial to my stump/tinpan birdbath also. I kept meaning to make a hypertufa bowl instead of the pan. You are right about the tipping point on the concrete ones...Much as I love the Grandkids, they are little destroyers. They live next door, but don't come poking in my yard without an escort. I let them help in the veg garden. It is so funny how thrilled they get (ages 3,5 &7) over being able to eat what they pick! Mint leaves were a big hit, as well as peas. The 7 yr old, Connor is excited about making a birdhouse or feeder from the gourds we grew last year. He is the one who spotted the Luna moth caterpillar we brought in to watch metamorphosize last year. I hope to find another this year. and of course they are enlisted in the butterfly caterpillar finding mission.
Anybody know what this is?