Mary Beth: Winter is coming, I think, and even though the weather continues to be unusually warm for this time of year, I’ve been getting the bees ready.
So, what about the bees? Every time I tell someone that Ray and I are moving back to Colorado (Ch, Ch, Changes), I hear this question. I’ll say, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Flowers’
Butterfly!
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Butterfly, tagged Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, Butterfly, Butterfly Garden, Butterfly Plants, Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Flowers, Gardening, Larva, Mexico, Milkweed, Monarch Butterfly, Nectar, Pollen, Pollinators on November 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth: Is there anything more amazing than a butterfly, especially a monarch? From its very beginning as a tiny larva, to the chrysalis, to the magnificent winged creature migrating thousands of miles to begin the cycle anew, there isn’t a moment of its life cycle that isn’t breathtakingly beautiful.
Swamp Milkweed grows wild on the [...]
Benefits of Organic Gardening
Posted in Block Island, California, Critters, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Bee Habitat, Birds, Block Island, Bumble Bee, California, Crab Spider, Flowers, Frogs, Garden, Gardening, Honey Bee, Honeybee, Lizard, Organic, Organic Gardening, Peeper Frog, Plants, Towhee, Vegetable Garden on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth & Barbara: Here’s another post where we’re going to let the pictures tell the story. All we really want to say is that the rewards for not using chemical pesticides are many. Some are obvious, like just knowing that you’re not adding to the chemical load in the environment. Others are more subtle [...]
A Morning Full of Surprises
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, California, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged California, Farm, Flowers, Food and Farm Lab, Garden, Gardening, Great Park, Irvine, Master Gardeners, Orange County, Organic, Raised Bed Gardening, Row Crops, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Barbara: I was looking forward to this past Saturday morning ever since I read that the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners would be presenting a fall vegetable workshop at the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park. Irvine is something of a wasteland when it comes to these sorts of things, so [...]
Ch-Ch-Changes
Posted in Block Island, Colorado, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Blossoms, Blue Star Amsonia, Changes, Colorado, Flowers, Garden, Garden Planning, Gardening, Island, Poppies, Raised Bed Gardening, raised beds, Transplanting, Vegetable Garden on September 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mary Beth: I love this time of year. It’s a time when I like to make a few changes in the garden beds. Some work, some don’t and, while the main bones of the garden will always be the same, it’s fun to have a few surprises to look forward to the next year. And [...]
Garden Dreams: Flowers
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Honey, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Gardening, Garden, Flowers, Blossoms, Plants, Island, Roses, Flower Photography, Flower Beds, Lilies, Nasturtium, Love-in-a-Mist, Veronica, Oriental Lillies, Balloon Flower, Coneflower, Echinacea, Hydrangea, Clematis, Wisteria, Astilbe, Bonica Rose, Daisies, Black-eyed Susans, Sunflower, St. John's Wort on August 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Barbara: The vegetable garden provides us with deeply-appreciated sustenance for body and soul, but the flower garden is a feast for the eyes, not to mention an irresistible draw for bees and humans (especially humans with cameras).
I’ve indulged in the written word in the past two posts. This time I’ll let the images speak for [...]
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