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These pictures are from Monday, June 19. Echinacea is beginning to bloom beside the barrel garden.  This is the barrel garden.  This pepper is beginning to ripen.  Moss rose is blooming.  So is gazania.  Million bells are blooming on the patio.  Here is the septic garden.  Cleome is blooming in the white garden.  Yucca is almost done blooming. I was out in the evening and surprised to discover that they are more fragrant at night. Since they are pollinated by moths, this makes sense, but I had not noticed it before.  Some of its flowers are setting seed. This also surprised me, because I didn't think yucca moths came this far north and also I've never seen their little holes (made by exiting caterpillars) on the pods. But perhaps their range is expanding, or some other moths may have done the duty.  Most of the morning glories have been eaten.  This is the cardinal nest in the hazelnut bush.  Here is the wildflower garden.  Echinacea is just putting out petals.  Prairie onions have heads.  Asters are blooming.  These black raspberries are in the blackberry patch.  The blackberries aren't ripe yet.  Tags: birdfeeding, gardening, illinois, nature, personal, photo, photography, wildlife
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Today is partly sunny and warm. Round 1, I watered the potted plants on the porch and trimmed grass around the telephone pole. The mourning dove eggs have hatched into two tiny, fuzzy squabs. I found a video of one online. Raspberries are beginning to turn pink in a few places. Many of the mulberries are pink. EDIT 5/26/17 -- Round 2, I pulled weeds around the forest garden. Also the last shipment of plants arrived today. EDIT 5/26/17 -- Round 3, I planted three windflowers, two stargazer lilies, and three balloon flowers around the barrel garden; and one White Feather hosta in the purple-and-white garden. A cool breeze has blown up, downdraft from a storm some distance away. EDIT 5/26/17 -- Round 4, I planted a white lilac and a black hollyhock. EDIT 5/26/17 -- Round 5, I sowed more grass in the streetside yard. It's getting dark, so I'm done for tonight. Tags: birdfeeding, gardening, illinois, nature, personal, wildlife
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Today is sunny, warm, and breezy. Round 1, I potted up the last of the purple-and-white petunias. I also startled the mourning dove off her nest when I went back to the porch, so it's still active. I've posted a picture of the native plants that I bought on Saturday. Round 2, I potted up the last of the snapdragons, verbena, and gazania. I put one gazania in the septic garden to see if it would survive the herbivores. Round 3, I potted up two ice plants, one yellow and one amber. I also planted a four-pack of pinks in the prairie garden, and bronze fennel in the strip garden. Tags: birdfeeding, gardening, illinois, nature, personal, wildlife
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