January Posts, Garden Jobs & Reminders

Sunflowers and Native Bees

Exotic (A-Z), January Posts, Garden Jobs & Reminders, Native Wildlife, Planting for Wildlife / January 11, 2019

This is reason enough to grow sunflowers. This sunflower is beside the pond and gets the morning sun. It has lots of tiny native bees and a single larger one. I’m not sure what type of bee it is. And here are some more against the fence facing west. Note to self: get some more […]

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January 2017

January Posts, Garden Jobs & Reminders / January 27, 2017

January 2017 was very hot, very dry. Bird baths sometimes needed topping up twice a day. On the verge: Zinnias, salvia, geranium, sedum holding up well. Gerberas have come back to life. Seems too hot for cosmos. Osteospermum struggling and a few plants have given up. Seeds planted in trays – spinach, asparagus pea, capsicum

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