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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Free Water From Mother Nature

Just a little free water from above. I don't remember the weatherman mentioning rain this weekend. This storm is coming from the south, part of the hurricanes down by Mexico. It was a short but substantial little microburst. A lot of water came down. I'm sure my plants will be happy afer they recover from the beating.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Willow and Caterpillars


Caterpillars attacked my Willow tree last week. One caterpillar took up residence on each branch and chewed all of the leaves at the tip, then spun a cocoon and turned in to a moth. I was worried about the damage they were doing but they were gone in a week and each chewed branch started to sprout new shoots.

This tree has tripled in size. Now that the caterpillars nibbled on it I hope it will fill out. I am really happy with how fast it is growing. Too bad it has to hibernate this winter. I need more green.


Saturday, September 1, 2007

My Verbenas are Blending


My purple verbena was planted when the house was built. It is a hardy plant but it needs to be cut back once or twice a year when it get leggy and brown. After a year or so I noticed white Verbena mingling with my purple. I don't know where they came from because I have not seen white Verbena in the neighborhood. Maybe it was just in the plant's genes. This year I noticed light purple Verbena too. It looks like the purple and the white cross-pollinated. Now I have 3 colors of pretty Verbena.