The past several years we have enjoyed the antics of several hummingbirds coming to our feeders.  They can't seem to share a feeder and only land if they are on the opposite side as another and cannot see one another.  But this year, I have seen only one occasionally.

I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing?  Did all the storms and tornados south of us affect either their migration or their numbers?

I picked the first batch of fresh strawberries from the garden. I think we ate about a quart just fresh, some before I could even get them inside.

Then my girls thought a great treat for our holiday weekend would be to make homemade ice cream. So, we made a quart and a half of homemade strawberry ice…

Can someone help me identify the problem I'm having with my Grape Irises? Their leaves are verigated white and green and the very edges and tips shrivle up and die.  The whole leaf doesn't die, just the edge.  Gotta clue?

The ligustrum (Japanese Privit) is blossoming finally!  This is such a marevelous time of the year!   As soon as you walk out onto the deck, you can smell them.  The gardenias are also flowering, so floral perfume is redolent in the warm late spring air. Butterflies tumble together, eating, frolicing, and maybe mating in the Memorial Weekend sunshine. The bees are busy busy busy, buzzing around visiting each flower in turn, loading their saddlebags with pollen and their tummies with nectar…

Hello Everyone.

I have rollie pollie problems! I hear they are beneficial creatures, so i didnt mind them being in the soil. But few days ago i noticed my beautiful red impatient plants just keeling over and dieing. I couldnt see the problem, but on a closer inspection I saw that an army of rollie pillies chewed 1/3 in to the juicy stem of the impatient plant killing the whole section! what do i do? I tried spraying some rose bug killers. I heard about using chilly pepper…

Good news! The chap who owns the plot next door has finally turned up. His excuse for having done nothing whatsoever this year to his allotment is that he is busy with all the arrangements for getting married next September. A reasonable excuse I suppose.

He has the rolling accent of someone from Liverpool.  In other words, he is a ‘scouser’ as we affectionately like to call folk who come from that part of the world. The plot belongs to his wife-to-be. Perhaps her…

I have a garden blog I started years ago as a way to keep track of the garden's many iterations.

plantingalongtheverge.blogspot.com

I lost my gardening mojo last year and haven't been able to regain it. However we've put

so much hard work into it, creating ''the bones'' that it pretty much requires severe pruning every

few months and that's that. My kind of garden!

My…

My hollyhocks which were planted in October 2010, survived through winter only to be devistated this spring by hollyhock rust.  One lone hollyhock made it to full height rewarding us with it's white layered petticote of blooms.  I just cut out all the infested greenery and will look into fungicides.  I am trying to do the Organic thing, and hope there is something I can do that is safe to us all, people and plants.

Wonderful to have no rain this evening and plenty of sun today so that everything had dried from yesterday's downpour!  I toured every garden and noted the growth and the advancement of all things flower, fruit, and vegetable.  A few notable "firsts" of the season:  1st cucumber flower:

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Witnessing mother earths natural order at work is truely awesome! My broccoli is just about to head again. If you read an earlier post you would know that the last broccoli I had was nice and big and thick and had just started to head real nice. The first good broc plants I had ever had. I came out one morning to find the heads topped off. Spent a few days investagating who done it and come to find out it was a few…