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Tag Archives: coneflower
Wordless Wednesday – Prepping for Winter
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Tagged autumn, backyard, bees, beneficial insect, bugs, coneflower, echinacea, flower gardening, garden, gardening, gardening tips, nature, photography, purple coneflower, Winter
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September’s Warm Embrace
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer. ~Helen Hunt Jackson If April is the cruelest month, as T.S.Eliot suggested, September may be the kindest. And September in Kentucky … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged autumn, backyard, bees, birding, birdwatching, Brussels sprouts, Cincinnati, compost, coneflower, farming, flower, flower garden, flower gardening, flowers, gardening, gardening tips, heirloom tomato, Helen Hunt Jackson, Kentucky, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, perennial, photography, September, Suburban garden, suburbia, summer, T.S.Eliot, tomato, vegetable, vegetable garden, Winter, Winter Landscape
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And the Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down.
July showed up wet and topical here in our part of the Ohio River Valley. Brief but angry thunderstorms. Long, gentle rains. Soakers and Sprinkles. Gully Washers and Frog Stranglers. And when it’s not raining, it may as well be, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged backyard, bees, coneflower, daisies, daisy, farming, flower, flower gardening, flowers, garden, gardening, gardening tips, Kentucky, landscape, organic gardening, photography, rain, roses, summer, vegetable, vegetable garden, Winter
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Bees & the Future of It All
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Vivid.” The vivid hues of this thistle let’s the honeybee know the kettle’s on. When I was a boy growing up on a farm in the Ohio River Valley, going barefoot … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard, beekeeping, bees, beneficial insect, bugs, colony collapse disorder, coneflower, flower gardening, gardening, honeybee, integrated pest management, Kentucky, Ohio River Valley, organic farming, organic gardening, photography, pollination, pollinators, summer, thistle
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Bees & The Sweetness of October
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine October is the month that always seems to pass too quickly for … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, backyard, bees, Blackberry Winter, coneflower, Dandelion Wine, fall, farming, flower, flower garden, flower gardening, flowers, frost, garden, gardening, gardening tips, Indian Summer, Kentucky, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, Ray Bradbury, spring, vegetable, vegetable garden, Winter
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End of Month View-August 2014
August ended the way it usually does for us in this part of the Ohio River Valley–Hot, humid, a thunderstorm or two. The days are noticeably shorter now, and the plants have noticed. A burst of productivity in the vegetable … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard, black krim, bugs, cleome, Cleome hassleriana, compost, coneflower, daisies, daisy, farming, flower, flower garden, flower gardening, flowers, gardening, gardening tips, heirloom, heirloom tomato, Kentucky, landscape, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, pepper, propagate, romanian pepper, rudbeckia, summer, tomato, vegetable, vegetable garden
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Daisies, Coneflowers & Bees (Oh, My)
July means the Purple Coneflowers and Daisies are competing for the lavish attention of the bees in our neighborhood. So far it seems the coneflowers are winning. There’s a symphony of bees constantly hovering on and around our stand of Echinacea … Continue reading
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