Looks like my red peony will have some healthy blooms soon. The ants are working the blooms pretty good.
Supposedly, peonies need a lot of sunshine and don’t need ants on them to bloom. However, I’ve learned over my many decades of trying to grow them, that the varieites like this one would have a lot of bloom buds shrivel away if they didn’t get much attention from ants or other insects and bugs.
My old white peony bushes out in the yard has only one viable bloom bud between 7 of them and they get plenty of sun. Early on each bush had several bloom buds but no ants insects nor lady bugs. Sure enough, all the bloom buds shriveled away but 1.
Happily, this red peony is giving a great promise of several blooms.
(If the wind doesn’t flatten them to the ground first.)
Wishing you all a month of sunshine and smiles.
Wishing you all a pleasant weekend!
This is a little bunny that hangs out near the garden. It’s growing quite fast. I figure the pin wheels and pie pans are the only things keeping it out of the garden. Thank goodness there’s lots of nice clover and grass in the yard for it to feed on.
The honeysuckle vines are blooming. The air is very sweet & aromatic right now.
I saw this pretty little wild strawberry growing in a day-lily. I’ve never eaten a wild strawberry. I like seeing them and think they’re charming.
This funny looking orange fuzzy ball growing in a cedar tree is called ‘cedar-apple rust’. It’s a strange part of a disease that requires two hosts, a cedar or juniper tree and an apple tree, for the disease to complete it’s cycle and cause damage. It releases spores that infect apple trees and ruin the crop. Fortunately, we don’t have any apple trees to worry about.
It’s the sad end of the season for the beautiful peony blooms. They’re on their way to the long winters rest.
My first squash bloom bud and it’s a female. Hopefully, It won’t be long until we’ll get to try these new variety of squash.
*Teaser*
This photo is a teaser for an upcoming post on our new project.
Our Birthday Boy spent most of the weekend playing and napping with his new toy. Turning 2 must’ve wore him out. lol Shelibean is such a cutie-pie when he’s napping. 😉
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