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Author Archives: Roland
More Insects, Please!
Spring is here, and I suspect you’re not hearing anyone say, “I want more insects in my yard this year!” Instead, I suspect it will be “Help! I have too many aphids!” or “Japanese beetles are eating my roses!” (Left) Yellow … Continue reading
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How to Get a Wheelbarrow Out of Your Living Room
MOM’s employees tend to be do-it-yourselfers. In my case, when my wife and I purchased our first home, we took on a fixer-upper. Alas, mumble-mumble years later we’re still fixing it up. Late last summer my darling wife lovingly mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Reuse
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Rain Garden: Just Say “No” to Watering
I like to conserve resources, like… effort. Take the rain garden I recently finished building. Sure, I shoveled and wheelbarrowed a dump truck’s worth of soil, and hand-built a thirty foot long retaining wall. But, once I get the flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local, Native plants, Recycling, Water
Tagged berm, bumble bee, butterfly, Danaus plexippus, flowers, gardening, Jerusalem artichoke, Monarch, rain, rain garden, retaining wall, stone wall, Sunchoke, swale, water
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Mulch and Faith
My beebalm (Monarda didyma) and anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) plants showed their first flowers of the season about two weeks ago. For the beebalm (also known as oswego tea), it is its first flower ever, so I’ve talked about it … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local, Native plants, Natural Health
Tagged Acer negundo, Aesculus pavia, Agastache foeniculum, anise hyssop, Asimina triloba, bee balm, beebalm, berries, berry, bird, black haw, blackhaw, blossom, box elder, boxelder, bumblebee, Cercis canadensis, Eastern plants, faith, flower, garden, gardening, hummingbird, local garden, magnolia, Monarda didyma, mulch, native plant, native species, nature, North American plants, Oswego tea, paw paw, pawpaw, plants, plum, Prunus Americana, red buckeye, redbud, slug, tree, viburnum, Viburnum prunifolium
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