Kalanchoes brighten the sill outside the breakfast room. Next year I'll plant them in all three succulent baskets for winter blooms. These are covered when we get a cold snap.
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Showing posts with label red shrimp plant. Show all posts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Garden Blogger's Bloom Day February 2013
It's Garden Blogger's Bloom Day (GBBD) and my garden has a few blooms to show for February. It's been a mild winter so far and we've got about a month to go.
Kalanchoes brighten the sill outside the breakfast room. Next year I'll plant them in all three succulent baskets for winter blooms. These are covered when we get a cold snap.
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Kalanchoes brighten the sill outside the breakfast room. Next year I'll plant them in all three succulent baskets for winter blooms. These are covered when we get a cold snap.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Garden Blogger's Bloom Day: December 2012
Garden Blogger's Bloom Day for December 2012 finds plenty of blooms in the garden even with two freezes this past week.
Bougainvillea, light and deep pink mixed in the same container look great considering they are not too hardy and I forgot to cover them.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Deary, Deery, Deer!
It's a good thing they're kinda cute because gardening with deer around can be a challenge. Most of the time I'm okay with it and select plants accordingly.
On Sunday I took this photo of a red shrimp plant for my Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post.
A few hours later I walked through the same spot and noticed all but one of those same blooms missing.
I knew right away what had happened. The deer, again. Even though I had been out in the yard much of the time and they don't usually bother shrimp plants.
So I looked around....
I didn't have to look far because these two were over by the creek grazing and watching me. They even waited while I retrieved the camera and calmly posed for their mug shots.
I was surprised they went for the shrimp plants since one neighbor has a large bed of them right next to a popular deer hang-out by the creek. Very few plants are completely deer proof.
Later in the day I found this damage to a Bush Morning Glory in the front yard so it will have to move behind the fence.
We also planted a row of Hesperaloe parviflora along the driveway Sunday afternoon. The next morning several had been pulled out.
Deer typically inspect new plants this way so it wasn't a surprise even though hesperaloe are not palatable to deer. My husband put them back in the ground and there was only a little damage since these are pretty tough plants.
In the last two cases, the "perp" made a clean getaway. That's a lot of damage in just two days.
It's all part of living with deer in the neighborhood.
On Sunday I took this photo of a red shrimp plant for my Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post.
A few hours later I walked through the same spot and noticed all but one of those same blooms missing.
I knew right away what had happened. The deer, again. Even though I had been out in the yard much of the time and they don't usually bother shrimp plants.
So I looked around....
I didn't have to look far because these two were over by the creek grazing and watching me. They even waited while I retrieved the camera and calmly posed for their mug shots.
Busted!
Later in the day I found this damage to a Bush Morning Glory in the front yard so it will have to move behind the fence.
We also planted a row of Hesperaloe parviflora along the driveway Sunday afternoon. The next morning several had been pulled out.
Deer typically inspect new plants this way so it wasn't a surprise even though hesperaloe are not palatable to deer. My husband put them back in the ground and there was only a little damage since these are pretty tough plants.
In the last two cases, the "perp" made a clean getaway. That's a lot of damage in just two days.
It's all part of living with deer in the neighborhood.
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