In this week’s newsletter ... 1 - It rained, lots - the garden loved it 2 - 1001 Species - Dragonflies 3 - From the Garden Notebook (Welcoming Wildlife) 4 - Which plant family matches your personality? 5 - The cols-bleu with the big truck worryingly looking at the wildlife garden
Very much enjoyed reading this, thank you. Knew that dragonflies were good hunters, but not that they were among the oldest continuously living creature groups! It's funny — I thought that I would want to be reading about gardens these days, but it turns out that what I want to read is pieces like this, about life in a garden and how to foster it.
We are starting what will apparently be a 3-10 year project of turning a lawn into a meadow here, and someone said to me something similar to what you have written, about the pleasure of observing the changes in meadow week by week and season by season. Thanks!
Thank you Maria ... it's good to hear responses like yours to my "nature notes" - every Sunday at the same time. Welcome aboard. Re your project ... the first couple of years things will be slow, don't be discouraged. once the perennials get their roots down you'll be away.
Yes, I've been warned. Thank you! So long as it feels tended to, which I think it will, it will be an improvement over the blankness of the grass.
I must admit that I was disappointed to learn that we couldn't do it all in a single season, but now I can laugh at my earlier ignorance. It's all a learning process… glad to be along for the ride on this substack.
(Ps removed my comment above and reposted it to fix the typos, since one can't edit comments on the app. You must have replied to the first version without my realizing it then.)
Thoroughly informative, thoroughly enjoyable.
Very much enjoyed reading this, thank you. Knew that dragonflies were good hunters, but not that they were among the oldest continuously living creature groups! It's funny — I thought that I would want to be reading about gardens these days, but it turns out that what I want to read is pieces like this, about life in a garden and how to foster it.
We are starting what will apparently be a 3-10 year project of turning a lawn into a meadow here, and someone said to me something similar to what you have written, about the pleasure of observing the changes in meadow week by week and season by season. Thanks!
Thank you Maria ... it's good to hear responses like yours to my "nature notes" - every Sunday at the same time. Welcome aboard. Re your project ... the first couple of years things will be slow, don't be discouraged. once the perennials get their roots down you'll be away.
Yes, I've been warned. Thank you! So long as it feels tended to, which I think it will, it will be an improvement over the blankness of the grass.
I must admit that I was disappointed to learn that we couldn't do it all in a single season, but now I can laugh at my earlier ignorance. It's all a learning process… glad to be along for the ride on this substack.
(Ps removed my comment above and reposted it to fix the typos, since one can't edit comments on the app. You must have replied to the first version without my realizing it then.)
Last September
Is that describing a photo? I'm afraid that I don't see it if so…
It was - I reloaded the comment with photo attached (something went wrong first time) … I will send again if you can’t find it
It didn't, but no matter. Look forward to seeing the progress there towards the coming September instead.