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BOGTURTLE'S GARDEN-Oct 2026

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 Why this Green Frog decided it would be a good idea to sit in the net I use to move the Guppies is a mystery. It is 2x the size it was, in late Spring, when it first arrived. It just showed up, as they might, one rainy night. So shy that getting photos is iffy. I trust it cannot help itself to the dozens of fish that have come from a pair I bought to keep mosquitoes from breeding. As temperatures drop, the Guppies will die, and I have moved a few into an indoor tank, but cannot keep them all. An effort to have anyone come and help themselves has gotten no response. The view, on a rainy day, out from where I type at the computer. Endless garden work, by my free choice. The Hummingbirds will be gone, soon. Off to Mexico, eventually.  The center circle in the lawn was over-run by Japanese Honeysuckle, Woodbine (Virginia Creeper) and some nasty Greenbriar. With a 4 tined tool, like a rake, I rooted most out and roots and all went into the chipper, shredder. So now, a bag at a tim...
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Bogturtle's Carden- Sept, 2026

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Just wanted a photo of a flower and the resulting fruit of the native to our South, the hardy Passion Fruit, Passiflora incarnata. Mine is growing on the wire of the fenced in veggie garden. And it is the chosen clone called 'Alba'. Not a great smell to me, but I am not what is to be attracted. Supposedly, the fruit is edible, but almost useless, having so many seeds. Nevertheless, my grandson has great interest in every type of food, and may separate out the pulp, just as an experiment.  I did not really want any video, but my phone seems to have a mind of its own.  Not enough blooms to make an advertisement, but Daylily 'Happy Returns' has. And I have rooted out most of the Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, and similar pests. A new mulch of chipped up branches is planned.  Blooming nicely in the main perennial bed, between where we park and the fence hiding the pool. And I cannot recall planting it. Would never have chosen this pink. And Deer do munch on Phlox p...
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Bogturtle's Garden- August 16 to end

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A new solar powered camera and bird feeder has captured many videos and photos. This shows a Black Capped Chickadee with a black Sunflower Seed. Other videos are to big for blogger The only Euphorbia marginata or Snow on the Mountain that grew, for some reason. But it is perfect. I should have lots of seed to plant for next Summer.  An old Cottage Garden plant, although a midwest native, to my knowledge. I recall it from the garden the nurses planted, that our windows overlooked. The nurses actually lived in the building, with the hospital just across the street from their home.  Moonflower, or what I think is Ipomea alba, is another annual vine I save seeds from, and plant the next year. The first photo is of the flower as it has opened, at night. Generally, I assume, pollinated by moths. And after one night, it slumps and fades, as the second photo shows at 8:30 AM. On the web there is probably a time lapse of the flower opening. This happens so fast you can almost detect it...
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Bogturtle's Garden- August 1-15, 2026

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The little Frog is pretty shy. Best photo to date. Usually it jumps into the pool when I approach. Not bothering the fish, to my knowledge. I added Guppies to the little pool, to keep moquitoes down. Very successful, and now I notice a second, almost microscopic crop of baby fish. Its good Guppies tend not to hunt down the babies for food.  interesting to me is that a good many plants, after massive seasonal bloom, give little, scattered repeats. So the Crossvine, Bignonia capriolata has continued with a few flowers, all Summer. It has taken over one end post of the fence around the pool deck.  A European species of Honeysuckle, I think, Lonicera periclymenum also grows on the end post. Scentless to me. I have limited our native, hardy Passionfruit to one sprout on a side of the fenced in veggie garden. It cannot rob light from the garden there The fruit is useless to me, being a mass of seeds, but I suppose one could seperate out the pulp. Buddlea weyeriana 'Honeycomb' also i...
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Bogturtle's Garden- July 21 to end, 2026

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  Among the annual seeds I save are those for 'Four O'Clocks' Jalapa mirabilis , that open every evening. I have a good number coming on, in many pots, here and there. Only this white one is full sized and blooming like crazy, now. Always amused that Lilium tigrinum, the 'Tiger Lily' is spotted like a leopard, with no stripes. Another old fashioned flower passed from neighbor to neighbor, generation to generation. And I mentioned, years ago, that mine came from the little bulbils I picked off a neighbors plants. Those form in the axels of the leaves and even show rudimentary starts of roots.  Here it is, rather late in July, and the deciduous Azalea 'Weston's Lemon Drop' is going strong. Generally, videos I try to post fail. Usually the message is that they are too long. This time, maybe not. I think the little Green or Bull Frog, that has taken up residence in the little pond is safe, although not sure. The Guppies, two adults and many babies, seem to s...
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Bog Turtle's Garden- July 11-20, 2026

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 The Trumpet Vine hybrid, probably Bignonia radicans, but the clone called 'Jersey Peach' is blooming beautifully on one end post of the fence around the pool deck. I had tried to eradicate it by drilling holes in the cut stump and pouring weed killer, as the plant was producing seed and spreading from underground runners. But it survived, and continues with its wonderful blooms, along with a thorny climbing red Rose called 'Winners Circle' some Virginia Creeper that came uninvited and the beautiful Honeysuckle called Lonicera Tellmanniana(if that's the correct spelling).  I have learned, the hard way, to introduce any vine with the most extreme caution, as a good many are pests. Speaking of vines, this is the rare white flowered clone of the Southern native species of Passionflower. Passaflora incarnata 'Constance Elliot' is my guess. It never seems to stay in place, from year to year. Sending up sprouts several feet from where planted, with the original go...
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