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Encouraging beneficial insects

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Looking at it always makes me think of box kites.
A common whitetail or long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) in our backyard, one of many dragonflies that oft visited us last year.

I forget when I found this book, but I have a copy of Good Bugs for Your Garden [Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995], written by Allison Mia Starcher.

It has lovely illustrations, and contains downright sensible and needed information for those who want to at least lower their reliance on chemical pesticides even if they are not willing to go full out organic with pest control.

It’s also a small, almost pocket sized book.  Easy to tuck into a backpack, tote or handbag.  Also one that won’t take up much space if you are the sort to keep reading materials in your bathroom.
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Old Lily of the Valley pips

I wanted to mention that I did plant the Lily of the Valley pips, but I do not hold out much hope for them.

They, like a few other seeds and bulbs/pips I’ve had for a while spent some time due to the moves in bad storage conditions.

The pips look beyond hope, however I figured if I don’t plant them anyway, I’ll always wonder if somehow even one might have made it.  I have shady room to spare right now, so I got them in the ground today.

Time will tell.

Posted in Progress

Along the driveway progress

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This was barely started last year, and we found an hour to spare today with co-operation from the weather, so we hopped on it.  Tomorrow I’ll post a bit more info about this project area overall.

For now, just two progress images, and I did not plan the before/after well because the shots are not exactly the same, though one seems much closer than the other thanks to Photoshop cropping.  I put in arrows on the worse off pairing to show which post in the fence is the same to give a better idea of the change. Continue reading “Along the driveway progress” →