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 02 May 2010
I was walking by one of the many birdhouses at Larrapin when I saw a little face poking out of the door. But wait, that’s no bird:
For a split second I was startled it might be a snake. But a second look revealed the unusual resident is a tree frog. He’s one of the wonderful [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 17 Apr 2010
If you’ve visited this blog much, you’ve been introduced to the various roadrunners that inhabit our hill and the surrounding fields. There was a large male the first year we called Randy. Then a shy female we called Rhonda. But Ricky, who started out a tiny, skinny guy, is by far the most interactive. This [...]
The Reference Shelf Leigh on 10 Mar 2010
The weather is warm with some showers and clouds, but just good enough to have me out in the yard prepping garden beds in the new veggie area. I covered the beds with tarps before the rain to prevent too-wet-to-plow delays… Regardless, one whiff of spring soil and I can’t concentrate on anything else!
The little [...]
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 [...]
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