Your brugs are beautiful as usual, Kell.
Early Saturday Morning blooms
LOL Kell I forgive you but only because you are right, I can't catch you right now ROFL!!!
What about using a yard stick with packing or duct tape folded over backwards and when you see a bug you don't want touch it to the stick and you have him. Last summer DH put up fly tape on the front porch on either side of the front door because we had flies so bad. I kept telling him not to but he did it anyway. Well I had baby wrens in a nest on the fern on the porch rail. One morning I woke up to what I thought was my babies being attacked. I ran out the door and there was 2 of my babies that had left the nest stuck tight in the tape and the more they flopped the more stuck they got. Momma was near by having a fit calling to them. I got them lose but think one died because it has so much glue stuck in its wings it couldn't fly. I kept my dogs in all day watching them. The one flew off and the other kept trying until finally it had hopped through my fence to the neighbor side where mom was calling from. The wrens didn't nest on my porch this year. There are many things we do in life without thinking of damage we may cause to the world around us.
... that's unfortunate. Sadly 2 robin fledglings both ended up in my stock tank. I lost one in there last year and thought I had made a mental note to put some mesh over it in the spring.
Kell you have the MAGIC TOUCH!!
Bonnie
Kell, thanks for sharing. You always have such beautiful flowers. Do you spend a lot of time working on them?
My mango crush was sick and I have (sorry Donna) sprayed it with several things. Looking better. Had mites and sprayed with avid and they are gone. Wonderful stuff (sorry Donna-I love my butterflies and am always thrilled when they choose my yard to play in)
I am just picking on you all. Everyone does as they see fit. I have so many birds and babies birds I have little bug problems. I used to spray everything before I decided to make a habitat when I saw what all the different animlas I had here. Mom was over this evening walking around and getting cuttings. She saw one of my cannas rolled up and started to squish it. I had to smack her hand lol and explained why she wasn't going to kill it and what a beautiful Moth/butterfly it was going to make.
Kell, you mentioned 300 brugs in pots and I know you grow some at the church and I know you have others in the ground, in addition to many other beautiful plants - and I know that CA isn't as hot, humid as Arky, and I know you are likely young enough to be my daughter, and I know you don't have a broken ankle, but how in the world do you water and take care of all those brugs and other plants by yourself?? And, you work too. I have about 25 brugs and other plants in pots, and maybe 100 or so in the ground, and about twice that many other plants and it took me 3 hours to water today. I hand watered and filled up 15, 2 1/2 gallon buckets about 15 times, maybe more. I did water heavy today and I double watered some, using fert the 2nd time. Do you have a drip system?? A sprinkler system?? Or buckets?? All my stuff is close and convenient, I have at least 10 spigots/hose setups, and it still took me 3 hours and, despite my advanced age and the ankle, I'm fast. How often do you have to water??
300 and going? wow, kell! and you are doing everything right, too. i have to "oooh and ahhh" here again since those 3 brugs that i have are not doing well. i was really excited about them since i got them from VG and all, and they are the double ones to boot.
the good news is that i finally went to tomales bay for my alfalfa pellet run at toby's feed (and bought 150 oysters at the farm before heading home---the x-small kind). $9.50 for the 50-lb bag for the pellets.
i hope you had a fabulous weekend =))).
annapet