Monthly Archives: April 2013

The Beesness

Posted on April 21, 2013 by tiggak

The butterflies have been a bit slow on the uptake this year, but there are a lot of bees about. Including the beautiful “green ones” that you can see in both the pictures below. My best “wikipedia” guess is they … Continue reading →

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Who’s blooming?

Posted on April 21, 2013 by tiggak

Although the snow didn’t help out the trees any, and we are about a month behind last year’s blooming times, a few things are popping up.  Texas yellowstar (Lindheimera texana), cutleaf daisy (Engelmannia peristenia), and happily the evening primrose (Oenothera … Continue reading →

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And then it snowed

Posted on April 21, 2013 by tiggak

So spring sprang, and then we had snow about a week later, which was very annoying as it knocked back a lot of the transplanted trees early efforts. Here is a rather imperfect panorama, of course it was all melted … Continue reading →

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Spring has Sprung

Posted on April 7, 2013 by tiggak

Happily things are just starting to flower, and its a been a nice day to see how things are progressing in the Native Yard. It looks like many of the perennials have over-wintered well and are coming back in force … Continue reading →

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