owls

Posted on August 8, 2012 by paridevita

Just walked out into the back garden and there was an owl sitting on one of the posts. I guess if I have the little lawn back there for the rabbits (so they’ll eat the grass and not my plants), it’s for the owls too.

A pair of great horned owls has been in this neighborhood for years. Normally the only time we hear hooting is in the winter, but this summer the hooting has started in the afternoon every day. The owls sit in the cottonwood out in the field.

When the owl flew away I walked out into the field, and there it was.

 

 

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getting new plants, the easy way

Posted on August 8, 2012 by paridevita

I stole this idea from Dan Johnson of Denver Botanic Gardens. It works really well, if the thing stuck in the ground stays stuck in the ground.

I know this looks like something out of The Blair Witch Project, which is part of its appeal; just a bunch of Glaucium corniculatum gone to seed, tied with a Twist-Em and then tied to a bamboo pole; I want them in this garden instead of where they are now. The benefit of this method is that the seed can ripen, and the seed capsules open, without draining the energy of the parent plant, a very good plan in weather like this.

For a large amount of seed, or heavy stems, you can make a tripod, and let the bunch of stems swing below it; very effective at Halloween.

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