Mom wants to plant more lilies, as they bloom later than most flowers and keep her perennial gardens bright! Even this plant has nearly finished now, but the hydrangeas are still beautiful!
If anyone tries to make you think that bird and butterfly populations are hurting... send them to our place. We are seeing more monarchs this year than ever before (other than during a couple of migrations), and our bird population has exploded! We regularly see 6-10 big Robins and Northern Flickers hopping about on just one part of the lawn all at once. Many of the robins are obviously babies from the second batch of the season, with their speckled feathers.
The problem with all these birds (including exponential growth in our Blue-Jay population) is that we lost our big harvest of grapes - each berry being pecked out just as it ripened.
And it is hard to find an apple on our many trees that hasn't been tasted.
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