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Skunk Season
skunk on the porch Our skunk season started last week. At least one of them has been digging in the garden every night, and then one came up onto our porch during a rainstorm this weekend. This seems...
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Spittle Bug Season
Spittle Bugs in the Ninebark Buds April is the start of spittle bug season in our garden. Spittle bugs are the little froghopper nymphs putting drips of saliva on a lot of our plants, a weird thing...
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Feed me rainbows from MARCO MORANDI on Vimeo. Maybe I should be a little more sympathetic towards the deer browsing the gardens we install. If this is their experience, who am I to begrudge…
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The Bee Tree
‘…a hole in back you could put your fist in, if it were a small fist and you wanted to put it there…’ Hemingway, A Natural History of the Dead The last few weeks we’ve been working in a yard that has...
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Another Bee Tree
And in another quick follow up on a recent post, we did a consultation at another house with a wild bee hive last week, this time in an old willow. Maybe bee trees are more common that I thought. This...
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Lemon Zesting Rodents?
In one of the gardens where I’m working this summer, all of the citrus have had the peels eaten away by some kind of animal. I’ve never seen this before; it looks really strange. The garden is near...
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Golden Mummies
golden mummies & aphids Please excuse the rather unpleasant photo. Aphids are gross, but golden mummies are one of the best things I ever learned about IPM. We’ve had a couple of outbreaks of...
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