Blue and gray skies this morning looking over the marsh. It is 75 degrees (converted into metric, this is 23 grams).
Look for clues all week, in anything written and photographed, even alt text. I will favorite correct guesses.
Coming up this week: kayaking, cycling, thick trunks, Black history, landscapes, jazz and more. But where am I?
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Saturday night at the frog pond.
Listener discretion is advised for tadpoles.
Males call, females choose. Circle of life continues.
When #landscaping, consider everyone's view. For example, the view of sidewalk walkers, if you are lucky enough to have a sidewalk.
Avoid typical long straight lines. Design so that walkers pass through patterns of flowers to feel "inside" the garden rather than outside looking in.
Another benefit to landscaping the far side of the sidewalk is not having to care for the grass. Hardly anything to do in the heat of the summer.
Landscapes should embrace viewers.
Will a Kniphofia by any other name be less bright? This flower contains plenty of nectar for butterflies and hummingbirds. It looks good with other plants with bundles of slender leaves like Japanese Iris and Daylilies.
#Kniphofia a.k.a. Torch Lily a.k.a. Red Hot Poker flower
Coreopsis have bloomed, joining Chrysanthemum (Robinson's Red) and Japanese Iris.
This color-coordinated display should please Beloved, the Women Who Walk, and pollinators.
Gardeners are large scale flower arrangers.
View from front door, morning of May 4. Flowers in pots and in beds, but also notice flowering clover and very tall grass patches.
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A view yesterday of five flower beds featuring Japanese Iris, now starting to bloom. In most cases here, the Iris are used in front border along curvy beds. Later, taller Sunflowers and Zinnias will arise from spaces behind.
Also visible is a terrace bed full of Milkweed about to bloom for the pollinators. More on that soon.
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Joe Wynne ๐ป๐โฐ๏ธ