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Gardening for beginners, enthusiasts and pros . . . If you enjoy this, you will love the blog: http://gardensinspired.blogspot.com
Curated by
Debra Anchors
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This is Idea Leuconoe (tree nymph) butterfly.
Photo by Dianna Grace 
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So cute with their silly cartoon faces, and interesting in their variable color schemes. Sparkie here had particularly great coloring. Some day he will turn into a less colorful adult, so he should revel in his bright coloring now.
Read more, here: http://goo.gl/XTRuc
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Not all flowers produce allergenic pollen. You may need to forgo a favorite flower or two, but you will find many low-allergy plant options with which to create a lovely garden.
Read more fro the original article and discover low-allergen plant choices, here: http://ow.ly/dBSiG
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Mixing different varieties of food coloring along with sugar, water and a waxy base, Dr. Mohamed Babu, of Mysore, South India, set out small droplets of liquid on a white plastic sheet outside in his garden and let the ants do the rest. “As the ant’s abdomen is semi-transparent, the ants gain the colors as they sip the liquid,” he said. Some of the ants even wandered from one color to another, creating new combinations in their stomachs. The ants seemed to prefer lighter colors such as greens and yellow to darker blues.
Follow the photo-link to read more.
Photo - Dr. Mohaed Babu - Mysore, South India.
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"The many turns of the maze continue to call to repentance, to rethink the past situations and new alignment and movement towards the target."
Read more from the author, here: http://goo.gl/hxHbG
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Container gardening isn’t only for savvy urban gardeners and folks with limited space to grow, it can also be for folks who want to maximize their yields in a controlled environment. Not only does growing potatoes in a barrel reduce the amount of weeding and exposure to pests and fungi, you don’t even have to risk shovel-damage to the tender potatoes by digging them out of the ground when they’re done, just tip the container over!
Read the step-by-step instructions from the source, here: http://goo.gl/QlDfs
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The Great Crested Flycatcher breeds from March to June. Find more, here: http://ow.ly/cLohv
The Flycatcher builds a nest in a tree cavity, although they have been known to use nesting boxes. Great Crested Flycatchers rely on other animals, especially woodpeckers, to make holes for them to live in. Sometimes they have to fight with squirrels or European Starlings over a nesting hole. Usually, the flycatcher loses.
The female flycatcher will lay five or six creamy white eggs with brown spots. Both adults care for they young who will hatch after two weeks.
Image by © Joe McDonald - curated on world-insights.com.
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Cloches can provide your plants with valuable protection from rain and light frost, cost very little, and can be constructed in under an hour.
Travis Saling offers instructions for making your own garden cloche here: http://goo.gl/YOCTg
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Annuals are superb problem solvers. As most experienced gardeners will attest, annual plantings are unequalled for providing affordable color, filling gaps, extending the garden’s bloom, and providing a seemingly endless supply of cut flowers.
If you are willing to start from seed, annuals offer a very economical way to fill the garden with color. Even if your landscaping budget is limited, you can still afford almost instant gratification if you plant your designs initially in annuals. To give the garden permanence, phase in perennials as you can afford them.
A brief list of annuals to easily direct sow can be found here: http://ow.ly/cqAf4
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The primary advantage of window-ledge gardening is that just about everyone can participate. Fresh potting soil, plentiful water, and a few dollars’ worth of annuals are all a gardener needs. Apartment dwellers that complain of a lack of full sun can join in, too. Plants such as caladiums and fuchsias, as well as today’s astounding range of single and double impatients, stand ready to fill a shady container.
Find tips for creating a beautiful and healthy window box, here: http://ow.ly/c93m7
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From
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EWG's 2012 Shoppers Guide helps you make informed choices about pesticides in your produce. Check the 'Dirty Dozen' and the 'Clean 15' to shop smarter.
The Shopper's Guide will help you determine which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residues and are the most important to buy organic. You can lower your pesticide intake substantially by avoiding the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated produce.
To view the list, follow this link: http://goo.gl/dHO2r
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Disturbing and fascinating at the same time, bats are very beneficial to your garden! Bats eat many garden and agricultural pests including cutworm moths, chafer beetles, potato beetles, and spotted cucumber beetles. Some moths can even detect a bat location and will avoid the area where bats are present. Bat guano is also a great fertilizer.
Read more about how to attract bats to your garden, here: http://ow.ly/dO0lK
Photo from The Organization for Bat Conservation.
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"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." -Thomas Merton
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If stepping stones lead garden-goers through dirt rather than grass, try filling the space in between with low-lying plants. Even if they spill over onto the stones, the resulting mounds of vegetation are visually stunning.
Read more, here: http://goo.gl/qM1Nj
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It’s hard to imagine this 1940's Chevrolet pickup moving down the road. Earth has captured it as it's own.
See more, here: http://ow.ly/dEEz2
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Although squirrels are a constant challenge for gardeners, they are fun to watch as they leap along their treetop sky-ways. Squirrels are sometimes able to glide their way 20 feet from a tree branch to a target, which unfortunately is often a “squirrel-proof” bird feeder.
Read more from the original article and discover tips for living with squirrels, here: http://ow.ly/dscHq
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Have fun with sticks — transform them into useful, attractive wattle and wickets.
Wattle fences are made by weaving flexible green sapling wood between upright posts. English wattle fences were historically made from willow or hazel wood, both of which are flexible by nature. Wattle work still is a viable small industry in rural Great Britain, where underwood trees are cut back near the base (coppiced) every few years to allow a new crop of fresh shoots to emerge.
Read more about building a wattle fence, here: http://goo.gl/oyQDd
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Does a walk on your lawn turn your feet and pant cuffs dusty orange? Is the grass yellow-brown, thin, and declining? A disease called rust may be devouring your lawn. This fungal pathogen steals nutrients from the plants, causing them to lose vigor and even die.
Airborne rust spores are easy to see when stuck to humans and pets. Occurring in mid- to late summer, infected leaf blades and stems show yellow, orange, or brown spore-producing blisters.
Read more and learn about how to manage this lawn disease, here: http://ow.ly/cXa6c
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Hollyhocks are nothing less than gorgeous. Planted against a fence or a wall, these stunning six-to eight-foot plants in captivating pastels and enchanting reds have few equals. But they are not just a pretty face. Hollyhocks link those who plant them with England’s early cottage gardeners who knew the plants as ‘hock leaf’, due to their soothing use on the swollen ankles (hocks) of workhorses. Over time, gardeners turned to hollyhocks to camouflage everything from outhouses to cracks in the cottage walls.
Read more about how to plant and care for Hollyhocks in your garden, here: http://ow.ly/cKW2s
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Have you ever seen the caterpillar of the Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly? I think they're fascinating; what do you think? You can watch an interesting video of the Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar, here (hint. . . a child in your life will like this!): http://ow.ly/bYMwm —
Image - ©Jay Cossey and curated from londoncovelife.blogspot.com.
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August is the perfect time to renew the garden. If you give beds and borders some extra attention in late summer, the garden will come back to life and carry on well into fall. Begin the important task by sprucing up perennials that have finished blooming. Cut back all the straggly flowering stems clear to the base of the plant.
Discover the benefits of trimming your late summer garden, here: http://ow.ly/cAQ3K
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If you spend time during the evening in the garden, or if you have the window open as you sleep, you would really enjoy night-scented flowers. They are some of the loveliest scents of the plant kingdom, and they engage snooping.
Even when you take cuttings for a vase, these flowers “remember” to release their fragrance at dusk and then hold tight to their scent during the daylight hours.
Some of the night-scented flowers are listed here: http://ow.ly/chog5
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Flowering shrubs can add color and fragrance to a garden hedge and be a great addition to the garden. They can create garden rooms, screen out an unattractive view, or act as a barrier to keep out animals or unwanted visitors. There are many different flowering shrubs that make good hedges so there is probably one that will meet the wants and needs of every gardener.
The five shrubs described at the end of this link will respond well to pruning, and can be trained into a hedge: http://goo.gl/9THgR
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