First harvested butterfly of the year
With the first butterfly emerging yesterday, I can officially kick of a new gardening year. It’s always thrilling to see one emerge.
At lunch with GG this week, we found a discarded outdoor fireplace that would make a perfect chrysalis house. It was too heavy for me to put in the van or I would have it here now. The only thing keeping me from reaching for the additional strength needed to make it happen was that it was bent – a little – and I wasn’t sure if I could make it work. Well, that and the fact that I wasn’t totally convinced it was in the trash. No answer when I knocked at the door.
- Signed up for the 2009 Butterfly count. Haven’t hear back for the coordinator.
- Moved Heuchera ‘Dolce Black Current’ from one area of the Red Bed to another.
- Thinned Bee balm, purple Salvia, obedient plant
- Pulled Artemisia
- Cut down a volunteer Holly. Couldn’t believe I let it get so big.
- Mowed with my neighbors mower…still waiting for our part to repair the wheel.
- Relocated 2 squirrels.
- Two loads to the yard waste center.
- Measured rain from storm.
- Bummer, it doesn’t look like Colocasia esculenta ‘Rhubarb’ made it through the winter.
- Scratched poison ivy.
Do doubt there was more, I just can’t remember it all. I have more important things on my mind right now, like three kids getting out of school for the summer on June 3rd. The excitement should last , oh I don’t know, a week at least!
Copy and Photos by Helen Yoest
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