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Late Spring Wild Plants
Spring came early this year and it has been summer temperatures for at least a month. But I have some great pictures of wild plants blooming and popping up around the place. Enjoy! Devil’s Claw seed...
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Currant Goodness
You can see that I didn’t even fill this little plastic container half way. This is yet another post sharing our decreasing ignorance. Here in northern NM, we had an early spring, and so these bushes...
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Planting Water Lilies
Snail beneath a lily in a pot on the porch. When we moved here in 2002, our pond had one lonely water lily, in pink. Over the years it grew. Last year, My Main Man braved the pond scum and placed in 4...
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Peas, Cucumbers, & Corn in September
Pink Hopi, ornamental blue, bloody butcher, sweet corn Corn. More corn. And let’s see, can there be more corn? This is our third year planting corn and we have planted more than 1 variety each year....
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Putting Fruit Away
Real strawberries! The taste is so superior to store bought. This year has been a great year for fruit in my little corner of the world. Everyone has fruit, whether or not they want it. Even us, with...
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Weeds and More Weeds
Bind weed, AKA wild Morning Glory There will always be weeds. You should just resign yourself to that fact up front. My mom always said that a weed was simply a misplaced plant. I find this to be true....
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Water Lilies and Hyacinths
Yellow water lily The water lilies we planted earlier this year did far better than the ones planted the year before. Several of them bloomed, even if it was just a single bloom. All of them put on...
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Seed Balls, Everyone Needs Them
The seed balls are still just a little wet. Yes, indeed! If you don’t have seed balls, you are missing out. Why, you probably aren’t in tune with nature, and obviously haven’t played with mud lately....
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Flowers For You
The big white flower and my little hand. Remember that July flood? Yeah, so do I. Well, it put several tons of sand on the property and with the sand came seeds. We have 2 squash plants popping up on...
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