Growing Blooms, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
While we always see sparrows, this is the first year that we saw a White-Crowned Sparrow. Appearance: The males and females are like a brown sparrow with a grey chest and a black and white striped cap. The beak is pinkish. Feeding Habits:  White-Crowned Sparrows like insects, seeds and berries. They prefer eating from ground feeders. […]
Oak Leaf Lettuce is a loose leaf type of lettuce like Salad Bowl Lettuce. Best Features: 1) Oak Leaf Lettuce is frost tolerant so you can sow the seeds in early spring. It is also somewhat heat tolerant so the leaves resist getting bitter. 2) The leaves are shaped like oak tree leaves. 3) The […]
I planted two Carousel Mountain Laurel plants at least 5 years ago. They sure are pretty in the Spring! Features: 1) Mountain Laurel is an evergreen so you can enjoy the plant year round. 2) While the flowers are rather short lived in the spring, the flowers are grouped in clusters of red and white […]
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