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Q&A: What’s causing a line of holes on my tree trunk?
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Q: A couple of my mature trees have developed holes in their bark over the years. Interestingly, they’re in a fairly even pattern, running up and down or horizontally across the trunk. Do you know what’s causing it and should…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Miri, Birds, trees and shrubs, Wildlife
Q&A: Can you recommend plants that provide food for birds?
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Q: This summer’s mysterious bird illness has me thinking…I’ve become more interested in birds during the past two years and would like to attract them to my yard with plants. Are there favored recommendations? A: Bird-attracting landscaping definitely beats out…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Miri, Birds, landscaping, trees and shrubs, Wildlife
Berries, birds, and cicadas in 2021
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For me, at least, it’s been a bumper year for berries. In some years, I harvest only sparsely from the various fruit plantings in my landscape. Black raspberries, in particular, get snatched by birds before I can get to them….
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Birds, Blueberries, cicadas, Fruits, Pawpaw, Raspberries, recipes
What’s humming in your garden?
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The summer is here, and one of the big pluses of it is that it brings a bunch of new visitors to our region, some of which are the whimsical and hungry hummingbirds! In today’s post we’ll talk about these…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Anahi, Birds, hummingbirds, Pollinators
The year without a blueberry
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Every year in the garden seems to teach a lesson about how things change. This year, I’ve been disappointed in my blueberries. I wrote a post a few years ago about my blueberries and how I always manage to harvest…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Birds, Blueberries, Fruits
The mystery of the birdless blueberries
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Some day I would like to have a well-built blueberry cage (like Kent’s) to grow many bushes in protected conditions. For now, however, what I have is three bushes (with a fourth coming along) that are part of my landscaping…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Erica, Birds, Blueberries, Grow Fruit
Awesome (really!) Video about Pollinators
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If you’ve ever wanted to see pollinators at work, up close, photographer Louie Schwartzberg produced a video that gave me a new appreciation of hummingbirds, bees, bats and butterflies. The Hidden Beauty of Pollination, a TED talk, is 7 minutes…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorized Tags: Author:Lena, Bats, Birds
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