Field Trip! Leigh on 15 Aug 2010
If you are interested in welcoming songbirds, butterflies and other wildlife to your garden, yard and land as I am here at Larrapin— you want to hear what Doug Tallamy has to say. His is author of Bringing Nature Home: How to Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, a book that enlightened my planting choices a [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 31 Jan 2010
We’ve had a lovely snow seven inches deep at Larrapin Garden that I have thoroughly enjoyed. But when the storm began, there were many anxiety-stricken hours as ice began to coat the trees in a terrible deja vu of this time a year ago when we had a devastating ice storm here. As the ice [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 19 Dec 2009
Flashback- Ice Storm Jan 2009
What fun to get requests for post topics from those wonderful folks who comment on blogs!! Thanks Stephanie and Jen for asking more about making homemade suet blocks, or “bird cakes” as we call them around here at Larrapin. I tried and tried to find photos of this process that I [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 12 Dec 2009
Once the weather gets cold, the woodpeckers reappear on the suet feeder. With the chilly week we’ve had, it’s rare to look out the kitchen window at the suet feeder and NOT see a woodpecker on it. Above, our adored red-head, the Yellow-Bellied Woodpecker. Occasionally, at the right angle, it’s visible how he got his [...]
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