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[terri16]

Those clematis are beautiful! My first one just up and died, and the replacement is still healthy - just tiny in front of the big trellis!

In other news, next to the little swallowtail cats that are crawling around on my parsley are these guys:

Sorry for the soft phone pics - hard to get in close without losing focus.

Who are these guys? Anyone know?

 

[cgw95]

Those clematis are beautiful! My first one just up and died, and the replacement is still healthy - just tiny in front of the big trellis!

In other news, next to the little swallowtail cats that are crawling around on my parsley are these guys:

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Sorry for the soft phone pics - hard to get in close without losing focus.

Who are these guys? Anyone know?

Lucky you. Swallowtails-in-progress.

 

[SquarePeg19]

Those clematis are beautiful! My first one just up and died, and the replacement is still healthy - just tiny in front of the big trellis!

In other news, next to the little swallowtail cats that are crawling around on my parsley are these guys:

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Sorry for the soft phone pics - hard to get in close without losing focus.

Who are these guys? Anyone know?

Older black swallowtail cats! They’ll get a bit bigger before wandering off to pupate. I read that they like to use branches or wooden garden stakes to attach their chrysalis to.

 

[terri16]

Oh, my - they've changed so much! I was stumped wondering who else was nesting in there. Most of the crowd is still at the all-black stage with the white ring in the middle. I only counted about 4-5 of these larger ones.

Well. Clearly they like it there.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Philmar]

red bug.... by Phil Marion (217 million views), on Flickr

up close and personal.... by Phil Marion (217 million views), on Flickr

 

[Ysarex64]

We're at the end of three days of on and off storms with pushing 2 inches of rain. Hadn't been able to get out to the garden to do anything. So finally this early evening we got out to check and of course pull some morning glories. We had to do some harvesting -- especially the cabbage which liked the rain. Those two big ones are 5.7 and 5.8 pounds respectively. Fuji X-T2 w/TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4

 

[cgw95]

One of our "rescue" roses: "Sidonie," an outrageously fragrant antique Damask. She was a fave of my late MIL who tended her for 50+ years. Despite careful uprooting and transplant last fall to her new obelisk home, no one expected her to survive winter much less bloom again.

 

[SquarePeg19]

One of our "rescue" roses: "Sidonie," an outrageously fragrant antique Damask. She was a fave of my late MIL who tended her for 50+ years. Despite careful uprooting and transplant last fall to her new obelisk home, no one expected her to survive winter much less bloom again.

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She’s gorgeous! A 50+ year old rose is amazing. Maybe when she fully recovers from being transplanted you can propagate a few more to spread around your garden to ensure she survives for another 50!

 

[SquarePeg19]

First bouquet of dahlias of the season from my garden. Brought them over to a friend who is recovering from surgery. Mostly dahlias (Red Barron, Ferncroft Illusion, Great Silence and Purple Bkush) but threw in a few white cosmos and sacrificed one bloom from the new pinky winky panicle hydrangea to give it some height.

 

[terri16]

We're at the end of three days of on and off storms with pushing 2 inches of rain. Hadn't been able to get out to the garden to do anything. So finally this early evening we got out to check and of course pull some morning glories. We had to do some harvesting -- especially the cabbage which liked the rain. Those two big ones are 5.7 and 5.8 pounds respectively. Fuji X-T2 w/TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4

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Gorgeous produce! Your cabbages look awesome.

Glad the garden didn't suffer from that deluge of rain.

 

[terri16]

One of our "rescue" roses: "Sidonie," an outrageously fragrant antique Damask. She was a fave of my late MIL who tended her for 50+ years. Despite careful uprooting and transplant last fall to her new obelisk home, no one expected her to survive winter much less bloom again.

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I think you mentioned this transplant before - what a great rescue! How great that she's blooming and ready for the next 50 years.

 

[Joel Bolden]

My smallish garden a couple weeks ago. The photo is from my Pentax LX. My main garden is being green manured with a mix of annual New Zealand Clover and Oats. I'm a great believer in floating row covers and black plastic landscape mulch. In this case, the front one covers small winter cabbages, and the larger one covers my broccoli. There's another on behind the broccoli temporarily covering pickle plants until they flower.

No insects, deer, rabbits to worry about. In fact you can see a rabbit in the foreground feeding on the plants I've tilled the rows into. There's Sweet Peppers, tomatoes, Cucumbers and Zuc's growing. The trellis will support 'Delicata' winter squash. In the back row you can see Joe Pye Weed and Ostrich fern. What you can't see are the Fragrant Sumac and Flowering Raspberry. The Weeping Willow trees come from cuttings I took when a beautiful tree fell over into our local lake. I call them the "Daughter" trees...There's also a Red Elderberry back there. Been a good year for rain, I haven't had to water at all

 

[jeffashman2]

Looks beautiful!

 

[cgw95]

She’s gorgeous! A 50+ year old rose is amazing. Maybe when she fully recovers from being transplanted you can propagate a few more to spread around your garden to ensure she survives for another 5

I think you mentioned this transplant before - what a great rescue! How great that she's blooming and ready for the next 50 years.

Here she is last November in post-op recovery before the transplant:

 

[terri16]

The cats are officially covered, and safe from the birds! (Thanks again, @SquarePeg !)

I put a small stake in the bigger pot to keep the netting aloft.

A couple of them are getting fat, with most of them just eating and getting larger. I found one today still so small it's just black with the middle white band.

So - now I'm wondering when it's safe to set these down in the garden and remove the netting. They have to be free to crawl away to do their chrysalis thing.