Today I Saw…..
This is for Pat R. who saw the first Lady Slipper in Vaughn Woods today. These are growing in an area of my yard that I used to struggle to make lawn-like. About ten years ago I noticed the leaves of a Lady Slipper while I was mowing. I decided to stop fighting against nature and let that area revert to woods. Now I only cut back the trees to keep the area in dappled sunlight. This year I was rewarded with fourteen Lady Slippers in a lovely natural garden with low bush blueberries, partridge berries, and a variety of ferns.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I love the idea of getting rid of big LAWNS and having what a friend of mine refers to as “a God’s Lawn!”
These lady slippers are so beautiful. I am enjoying , in our back yard, many pretty ferns, johny-jumpups, violets and lilies-of -the-valley right now and of course, numerous dandelions!!!!
Why not enjoy these wonders of nature instead of spending “oodles of money” on fertilizers, etc. etc.
It is a thought.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
We now have a pair of tree swallows nesting in a bird house in our front lawn.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
We’ve had an indigo bunting on our bird feeder for several days. A first batch of bluebird chicks, which hatched weeks ago in our bluebird house, now seem to have flown and the parents act like they are getting ready to have more.