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  • moni731
    moni731 Member Posts: 293
    edited September 2015

    Jack birdie- the syrup ratio for bees is 1/1. Regular sugar and boiled water. NO corn syrup. A very shallow dish works, just have to keep it with syrup, not deep enough to drown them. The bee feeders are mason jars with little tiny holes poked in the lids and held off the dish about an inch by a support. Cost a couple dollars on line. Company named Brushy Mountain is where I get most of my supplies. The bees will fair okay with hummer feeders though.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited May 2022

    *heavenly blue morning glory* *orange beauty thunbergia*

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    The pink and purple wild asters prior to 2015 were covered with bumble bees.I saw only one bumble bee zipping off before the photo.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited September 2015

    Teka- pretty pictures! Love me some asters!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited May 2022

    I took this photo of a monarch butterfly on the pink and purple wild asters!

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited September 2015

    Teka- so beautiful! All of it!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    Teka- that is a striking, stunning photo. I love the dimension!


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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018

    Thank You!!

    I also took this photo of a monarch butterfly on the pink and purple wild asters!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2019

    A pleasant fall day in the North Country!

    Husband and I found that the sweet eastern phoebes continue to build a mud-and-grass nest under our camp roof.

    I doubt if the same birds after all these years!

    Husband took the following nest photo.

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  • moni731
    moni731 Member Posts: 293
    edited September 2015

    Love the asters, can't wait until mine bloom. How nice fall is on schedule there! We are still around 100! With the drought, here the grass is a goner. Can't wait until (hoping) we get some rain. When they say 'California gold', it is truly what it looks like here. not much green any more.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited May 2022

    I'll be busy throughout October finishing fall outdoor clean-up.

    *amaranthus - love lies bleeding*

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    *mammoth sunflower*

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    *sedum* Blooms just starting to open up with a busy bumble bee!

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    I'll be taking fall photos and public posting before Halloween.

    Enjoy the 1st weekend in October coming up!

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited September 2015

    Beautiful Teka- some of the prettiest things come out late in the season!

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  • TwoHobbies
    TwoHobbies Member Posts: 2,118
    edited October 2015

    all the beautiful asters are making me think I should look for some for my flower bed but I'd need some that are not so tall and leggy as the wild ones I see. It would be nice to have something blooming besides my worn out petunias and flower pots. I pulled up the leggy petunias today. It has turned very blustery and rainy but still see 60 and 70s in the forecast so I didn't pull up all my annuals.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited October 2015

    Lots of sales going on. One home store here had asters for cheap, so we got a few. They are so bright and cheerful.

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  • 70charger
    70charger Member Posts: 963
    edited October 2015

    We had snowflakes falling this morning.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited October 2015

    Some fall foliage pics from my family trip to upstate NY last weekend!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited October 2015

    Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for those!


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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited October 2015

    Lovely pixs. Thanks for sharing.

    Scottie

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited October 2015

    Still have some nice color in the gardens here in mid October. The pink mum came out while I was away last week!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited October 2015

    and unbelievably, I'm still harvesting veg! Here's from yesterday:

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited October 2015

    Jackiebird- yum! I am going to go to the farmers market tomorrow and get some of the last of the seasonal produce here.

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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 3,044
    edited October 2015

    Jazzy.. Your photos from when you were away are beautiful.. Simply gorgeous.. Picture card perfect.. as are the flowers in your garden at home.!


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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited October 2015

    imageWe are lucky that we haven't had frost yet.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited October 2015

    OMG, so beautiful Flavia.

    I went to the farmers market today and still lots of good veggies there. I notice there are still a lot of flowers in bloom. We have a few more weeks until a frost comes.

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited October 2015

    Flavia- that table is the epitome of BOUNTY!

    Beautiful!!!!


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  • 70charger
    70charger Member Posts: 963
    edited October 2015

    Happy Thanksgiving! Not many leaves left today as we have a wind warning. Gusting to 100 klms.

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited October 2015

    Ladies, I just now found this thread. I was an active flower gardener for many years. When diagnosed with bc, I stopped completely for three whole years. My husband would use the weed eater to chop out all the weeds growing in the flower beds. I simply had no desire to get out there. Last year, my interest blossomed (!) again. Dh and I pulled out numerous shrubs and trees dead from the brutal winter, I trimmed everything up and despite my aching body, pulled all the weeds throughout the spring and summer.

    This year my passion for it grew (!). I reworked several flower beds and scoured garden centers for marked down perennials. Even tho the yard is not big, It keeps me busy. I am quite sad to see the colder weather arriving as I so enjoyed the flowers this year.

    We also visited a lovely botanical garden in Youngtown, Ohio, an hour from me, as well as an extremely delightful urban garden in Zanesville, Ohio about two hours away. They were both very inspiring and fed my soul. Can't wait to check out more gardens like that next year, and hopefully take a few home garden tours.

    I've been browsing this thread and looking at all the delicious flower photos. Most of my flowers are done blooming this year except for a few knockout roses and some lingering blackeyedSusans, but heres a photo of the coneflower I finally got to bloom late this summer...we have a small pond, you can see a water lily behind the tree.image

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited October 2015

    Divine- Wekcome! Divine coneflowers as well. I knew I liked you for a reason

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited October 2015

    Welcome Divine! Those cone flowers are pretty! I too was not doing much for awhile with my gardens, but got back into it this year.

    It will be sad to see the flowers go away soon, but remember we will have next spring to start all over again!

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  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited October 2015

    My fading garden. . .I look forward to this board next spring. We are on a lake and we clear cut the lakefront this year to get more sun in our backyard. Dh and spend most of our spring weekends adding to our gardens and we have a lot to do next year now that we have more planting room. I admit to having way too many knockout roses, but they are sooo easy to take care of and I still have limited ROM so I do try to get the most flowers for my buck and plants that DH won't have to spend hours trimming.

    Divine. . .love the butterfly and cone flowers. I need to plant more perennials.

    Scottie

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  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited October 2015

    Scottie, I love knockout roses, too. They have such a long bloom time. This year, I found them on sale so I added a few more into the yard. Here's a photo taken in June:

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    I've been to Atlanta twice (2013, 2014) and found it to be a beautiful city. I believe visiting it was instrumental in reviving my gardening interest. Strolling thru some neighborhoods in the Old Fourth Ward and Inman Park, and touring the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library gardens...more things which fed my soul. I describe it as American spirit, Atlanta Grace

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