Tag Archives: Flowers
Survivor — Caterpillar Version
If you plant it, will they come? Over the past two years, I’ve planted many kinds of coneflowers and milkweed. I’ve planted bronze fennel, parsley, bee balm, butterfly bush, autumn sedum and more. It’s a buffet for Black Swallowtail and Monarch … Continue reading
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Life and Death in the Garden
A crab spider grabbed a honey bee that visited a common milkweed flower. In the Midwest, Master Gardener J. G. has planted a complete banquet for pollinating insects, such as bees and butterflies. There are plants for all stages in an … Continue reading
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Monarch Watch Spring 2009 Open House
My friend Deb buys some tropical milkweed at the Monarch Watch Spring Open House at the University of Kansas on May 9. Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor, at left in the yellow hat, and many volunteers were busy as the … Continue reading
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Happy Spring!
Spring officially arrived more than a month ago, but we’re just now getting lovely weather. (We did have one nice day here and there before.) The petals are already falling from the apple trees, but I’m looking forward to a succession of cheerful … Continue reading
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Honey Bee and Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly
After waiting in vain with my camera for butterflies to pass through my neighborhood a few weeks ago, I went to a very large local nursery that features hundreds of thousands of plants. (It sounds as if I spend way too much time chasing … Continue reading
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Sunflower Season
Kansas is the sunflower state, but we had to go to Oklahoma to find these vast sunflower crop fields (pictured above and at the bottom) near Quapaw in mid-September. Heading south on Highway 69 in Kansas, we passed mile after mile … Continue reading
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Monarch Watch
You can’t keep butterfly lovers away, even when it’s raining. More than a thousand people, a lot of them children, showed up for the annual Monarch Watch fall open house on Sept. 6 at Foley Hall at the University of … Continue reading
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Black Swallowtail Butterfly
I’ve been chasing butterflies with my camera – actually, there was just one black swallowtail butterfly. I saw the first one of the season today, and it’s September 5. What happened to the rest? I’ve seen one monarch, a handful of yellows and possible even … Continue reading
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Fenway Victory Gardens and Fenway Park
Article about gardening books from the New York Times As a college student, my daughter lived along Boylston in Boston in one in a row of old apartment buildings. The woodwork was thick with paint, the walls were peeling, the plumbing … Continue reading
Spring Fever
Perfumed blooms battle for attention, leaving me dizzy, intoxicated. Sun-warmed breezes take the bite from winter. Bright green buds burst forth from drab stems. Profusion, confusion. Explosion of brilliant color. Every shade of pink, violet, purple, white, red, fuschia, yellow, green. Rebirth. … Continue reading
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