Here’s the garden where we placed the pole…behind the blooming tree. You can see the male bluebird even in this photo perched on the pole. |
by Jeanne
Here’s the garden where we placed the pole…behind the blooming tree. You can see the male bluebird even in this photo perched on the pole. |
We didn’t set out to grow Jonathan apples, but this is the variety that thrives in our zone 7B garden. We purchased seedlings from the Arbor Day Society and planted our home orchard in December 2007. Today, we have many fruit trees, including our beloved Jonathans that are my new favorite apple. Here’s how to…
A no-salt, nutritarian, vegan dinner that’s easy to make on a busy night I made this stuffed peppers without rice recipe last night for dinner. It uses my confetti salad recipe with some added spices for the filling. At this time of year, when fresh tomatoes and peppers are abundant in the garden, it’s the…
I promised to share this French fig salad recipe with you. This recipe originally came from a cookbook by Georgeanne Brennan called Savoring France: Recipes and Reflections on French Cooking. I updated the recipe to remove the dairy and fat. The result is a flavorful, lower calorie dessert that sparkles with the essence of the…
What to do with fresh figs? Well, you can eat them, of course. If you are growing figs in Virginia or anywhere else, one thing is clear: the harvest begins in late summer and continues into the fall. The abundance from one or two small fig trees is astonishing. Here’s what to do with fresh…
Jo
They aren’t that sweet. They can be very aggressive. One of them had a punch up in our back yard. He was fighting a prothonotary which had been nesting in one of our boxes for a few years. The bluebirds took it over and we never saw the prothonotary again. I blogged about it for B. But yes, they are pretty.
Gardener on Sherlock Street
Beautiful blue bird. So glad your work to make him/her a home was rewarded so quickly!