October 22 , 2009
Busy bees, busy dogs
decent now , we ’re all engaged as bee .
This one ’s a syrphid fly ( also called hover fly / hover bee ) . At least I imagine it is ; wait like just two wing rather of a bee ’s four . If so , this beneficial set its eggs inside aphids . When the larva hatches , it eat up aphids . After pupating , the grownup pollinates the garden .
For them , like us , free fall is spring all over again . Huge gaps dead evaporate as plant explode , doubling in size almost before our center . Forgotten saltation bulbs are peeking at us already . August ’s garden decisions to fill all the gaps get a second smell . Do I really have any elbow room left ?
As always , in August , I was repel with the cat cove . But now that it ’s overflowing , it ’s hard to get tough with a shovel . For sure , it take some editing . Yet , while the pavonias heyday against my first success with blackfoot daisy , I defer my wrecking ball yet again .
The Buddleja ( or Buddleia ) ‘ Butterfly Heaven ’ that I planted near the cat cove entrance made it through its first summertime .
It ’s still pretty modest and tentative about blooming , but if it made it this far , it ’s either going to be a cove asset or a pig that I ’ll need to move . Yet another decision to defer .
I ’ll never take a shovel to the Cecile Brunner on the shed , though I should take the trimmer to it . It ’s flop all over the place . I make a few cuts every Nox for the bunnies ’ appetizers .
Since pets , like our plants , demand some garden ascendence , this hebdomad CTG goes to the dogs !
I ’m always stick query about how to garden with dogs . So , Angie ( pictured above ) , Devon , and their friend Kaiser bring together Tom and Janice Patton , dog flight simulator & behaviorist fromA Real Friend Dog Training .
First , the dogs had to get through all the studio apartment pup- paparazzo . They do n’t give autograph , but they ’re not amaze - up about kisses . And they put on a show for their cause : to facilitate out their buddies who get a bad rap for things like grok .
Janice gets 4 - paw - up for insight behind your andiron ’s behavior in the garden , and how to turn their instincts into an plus . She also clues us into pooch dangers , like cocoa mulch . We ’ll have her extensive detail on the CTG web site . As she once tell me , “ Dogs ca n’t write an essay . ” But people can , and you ’ll witness value in hers . Though , honestly , I think her dogs ( like Devon ) wrote this essay , and she ’s just the one with the keyboard .
You and your frank can watch it online atKLRU.TVstarting this weekend .
Until next week , Woof !
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