7-31-20 VERMONT: We had a nice rain yesterday evening that delivered 0.65 inches after a few hot, dry days that left the lawn looking brown. The new pond is lower than it has been, and three feet below full. Today is in the sixties.
We had the new house chimney water sealed, and the drainage project continues. I re-built the grill. It’s a Weber kettle grill that we have had since we moved in 30 years ago. The moving parts and grills have been replaced before and again now.
I continue to weed, water and prune and did some new planting. I put a hellebore, Helleborus orientalis ‘Ivory Prince’, and a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, in the bottom layer of the terrace beds at the shadowed, dark end. Two echinacea, E. purpurea ‘Magnus’ and two pulmonaria, P. saccharata, went in the top terrace bed at the sunny end, and a primrose, Primula beesiana, in the new brook.
The echinacea replaced two obedient plants that died. I also pulled some ferns out of the old chimney bed and transplanted them on the banks of the new pond.
New blooms: gooseneck loosestrife, potentilla, Indian pipe, Joe Pye weed, mint.
Two of a trio of Hooded Mergansers that we found on the pond a few mornings ago.
Nicely posing with their reflections. They were diving repeatedly. Fish make up a big part of their diet.
Was it something I said?
Gooseneck Loosestrife opening up, love the name.
Tiger Swallowtail in one of the last daylilies.
Another butterfly, this is a Silver-spotted Skipper. Skippers are a huge family, many are small and unremarkable.
Song Sparrow, I think, one of several birds with brown, spotted breasts, and one that does not use the feeders.
We had the new house chimney water sealed, and the drainage project continues. I re-built the grill. It’s a Weber kettle grill that we have had since we moved in 30 years ago. The moving parts and grills have been replaced before and again now.
I continue to weed, water and prune and did some new planting. I put a hellebore, Helleborus orientalis ‘Ivory Prince’, and a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, in the bottom layer of the terrace beds at the shadowed, dark end. Two echinacea, E. purpurea ‘Magnus’ and two pulmonaria, P. saccharata, went in the top terrace bed at the sunny end, and a primrose, Primula beesiana, in the new brook.
The echinacea replaced two obedient plants that died. I also pulled some ferns out of the old chimney bed and transplanted them on the banks of the new pond.
New blooms: gooseneck loosestrife, potentilla, Indian pipe, Joe Pye weed, mint.
Two of a trio of Hooded Mergansers that we found on the pond a few mornings ago.
Nicely posing with their reflections. They were diving repeatedly. Fish make up a big part of their diet.
Was it something I said?
Gooseneck Loosestrife opening up, love the name.
Tiger Swallowtail in one of the last daylilies.
Another butterfly, this is a Silver-spotted Skipper. Skippers are a huge family, many are small and unremarkable.
Song Sparrow, I think, one of several birds with brown, spotted breasts, and one that does not use the feeders.
Monarch. Those small lumps on the hind wings indicate that this is a male.
Doe and fawn in the pasture before dawn caught by the game cam.
Doe and fawn in the pasture before dawn caught by the game cam.
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