syrinx

view from the curb redux

...and here's the freshly trimmed silver ponyfoot just in time for the big Canada Day-Fourth of July weekend festivities...one of the home owner association board members dropped by soliciting votes recently so I gave 'em my proxy and promised to participate on the landscape committee. What with a National Wildlife Federation volunteer as the horticulturalist, and the demonstration garden at the community center, perhaps we can decrease the water usage.

tags: gardening organic nativeplants

seed balls closeup

This is a closeup of a couple of seed balls I made recently.

tags: gardening organic seedballs

seed balls

Here are some seed balls I made recently. This is just a small sampling – I actually made dozens of them.

tags: gardening organic seedballs

Just made a foto album in the gallery section to post some of the wildflowers in the yard that bloomed this past April - some still blooming in May.

Last year we went to the Wildflower Center's garden tour - mostly folks in higher priced neighborhoods who'd hired landscapers to do their yards. The first yard was one that had done most if not all their landscaping on their own - it was a fairly new house built on a hillside lot with a lot of native growth that they left partly as-is.

tags: gardening photos wildflowers weeds gallery

If you're like me, you love to compost, but hate to deal with the kitchen compost bucket. We have a stainless steel container with lid, but I will wait until it is overflowing before dashing out to the composter, and by that time all sorts of lovely things are growing in the can. The nasty part is cleaning the container AFTER emptying it on the heap. But I think I've found a marvelous solution. Lee Valley sells a compost bucket bag.

tags: gardening biodegradable compost