April 26, 2010
Many new sprouts have appeared this week in my greenhouse. My butterfly garden is also popping up. Here are just some of the plants:
eggplant

tomatoes

cilantro in my grandpa's old strawberry pot
Yukon potatoes in a growing bag
mystery sprouts that emerged from my compost

grapes

phlox

gaillardia dwarf

coneflower

gaillardia Amber Wheels

Baptisa australis-will have indigo blue flowers
aster

Royal Red Butterfly bush

Helianthus

Aster

Echinacea

spearmint in an untended area

Mexican Hat

chives that come back year after year
Below: We have many hostas growing under the screened-in porch



Below: carrot sprout in whiskey barrel


Above: This blueberry plant in a pot survived its first Kansas winter and seems to be healthy
April 26, 2010
Butterfly plants, hostas, sprouts
April 13, 2010
Sedgwick County Zoo
April 12, 2010
Bullfrogs, seedlings
April 2, 2010
Snow, oppossum, inside seedlings
January 10, 2010:
Snow and winter birds
December 1, 2009
Hardy blossoms, lettuce
October 20, 2009:
Salamander and new greenhouse
September 29, 2009:
Spiders, Monarch Watch Garden
September 15, 2009:
Emerging Monarchs, other insects
August 20, 2009:
Swallowtail cats, geese and harvest
August 9, 2009:
Rocky Mountain Natl. Park
August 8, 2009:
Butterflies, ponds, crabs, bees
July 7, 2009:
Baby Purple Martins, frogs, tomatoes
June 12, 2009:
Baby Martins, Blue and Catbirds, gardens
May 27, 2009:
Bluebird eggs, Orioles, Goldfinches; many sprouts
May 5, 2009:
Chives, frogs, pond plants, So. American lunch,
rabbits, spiders
April 14, 2009:
Vultures, Purple Martins, veggie seedlings
April 9, 2009:
Killdeer, ladybugs,
Woodpecker, goose nest
March 31, 2009:
Spezzatino interview, ice storm
March 26, 2009:
Hoophouse, mulch, red-winged blackbird