The Garden of Bogturtle

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 so fast you can almost detect it, just sitting...

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...