Flight of the Blue Morpho. They can have a wingspan of up to 8 inches. Adult morphos spend their time on the forest floor with their wings folded.

Desert Southwest gardening can be sustainable, smart and spectacular. Because his worms eat food scraps and produce a nectar-like waste product worm castings. Worm castings do not stink! We now .

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Creating a wildlife haven one plant at a time. Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Planting an Early Spring Garden to Attract Ruby Throated Hummingbirds. Like clockwork, the first ruby throated hummingbird scout shows up in our garden the last week of March. This has held true since I first started recording their return date eight years ago. You can watch their migration to estimate the arrival time in your area and document your first sighting here.

Monday, March 27, 2017. Grounded Design has moved! Grounded Design is moving from Blogger to Squarespace. I hope to soon transfer the domain www. com as well to this new format, but that may take a few more days. Out now, do the occasional interview. Wednesday, January 25, 2017.

I read an article the other day about propagating shrubs from softwood cuttings, which inspired me to have a go. What a perfect time for the inspiration to propagate with softwood cuttings to s.

Monday, June 29, 2015. Artful garden blends blooms and mixed media. In addition to the beautiful blooms and creative designs we enjoyed at the Toronto Garden Bloggers Fling. Filled with the work of sculptor Wojtek Biczysko, the garden reflected upon itself through various metal sculptures that brought light and movement into the landscape. I did a little .

The ups and downs of the gardening world. A skipper butterfly inserting its proboscis into the flower slurping up nectar. Butterflies are flying everywhere in my yard, swooping, basking, and fluttering like graceful ballerinas in a ballet. Observing the butterflies visiting my flowers and trying to catch them with my camera is difficult at times, so I did some research about their habits to make it more likely to capture them in the lens of my camera. Gulf Fritillary basking on Zinnia.

I plan to see a lot of roadside on the way.

Monday, July 6, 2015. And when we were building in 2010. So from the very beginning we looked like this-. We had some big changes this winter with the ice storm and an early snowfall- November 1st! The ice storm will be talked about in my next post. Follow the links above to see yearly progress. View from the front door.