I've wanted a butterfly weed plant for years and this year I finally just decided to buy some small ones and remove any guesswork. That night the idiot squirrel that lives on my property dug them both up, so this is my solution to protect the new one i was graciously given for free from the same nursery i got the others.
I used like ten 6" landscaping staples to anchor the wire, and if the squirrel gets through that I'm gonna lose my shit
I'm taking an ash tree down on my property next week and I'm gonna build a work bench with it. I want it to be a hefty boy, so I'm going the roubo route.
Question is, since I can ask the mill for specific cuts, is there any reason I shouldn't just get one monstrous 6" slab from the middle of the trunk and use it?
Found a liverwort in the wild, by one of my flower patches!
I spent the last six months anxiously awaiting the bountiful bloom of what I believed were gaillardia pulchella, or blanket flowers
Come to find out they're lance-leaf coreopsis, but it's still a good number of flowers, and the locals appreciate them either way
I've been waiting so patiently all year, hoping the plant in my backyard was butterfly weed. It probably isn't, but I found this little guy in my front yard a couple days ago!
I've been hoping all year that this plant was going to be a huge, beautiful butterfly weed bunch, but after seeing actual butterfly weed on a field trip for my field botany class, this doesn't appear to be butterfly weed after all.
Any ideas what it is?
I posted a couple days ago, but in the interim my yarrow, black-eyed susans, and wild bergamot went wild!
The excess allowed me to make a bouquet for my wife with some stragglers.
I got pollinator seed packs from the Tennessee Environmental Council a while back, they seem to be doing the trick now.
I need to figure out how to trim them effectively, to keep them from toppling over, but aside from that I think this is a great first year!
