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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Tips From the Garden~

WINTER GARDEN

In this post I thought I would give you some Idea's for plants, bush and trees that would give your garden a uplift during the winter time. My garden becomes rather bleak and bare which is very difficult because I love to garden so much, so I wanted to find someway of making the Garden fun during the winter months...I hope these tips will help you give your gardens that up lift during thoughts long winters and lift you spirits during the long cold winter blues. I am also thinking of giving you an Garden tip every Saturday so keep and eye out for those Tips For the Garden:oo
What I found is, there are many varieties of long lasting berry hollies that are an must - have for any garden to help with the winter blues. The Hollies that I found; either an plants, bush or trees have these beautiful dark green glossy leafs, sometimes blues and their varieties of variegated forms. There are others that have striking bright berries that will brighten any one's winter blues.
I found a couple of wonderful Holly's that I think you all would love in your Gardens and they would look great in the summer too. I have made a list for you so It will be a little easier for you all my dear friends and followers;oo
1-English Holly [Ilex aquifolium] This holly has the classic 'Christmas appearance, with its glossy green leaves
and either red or sometimes yellow or orange berries.
2-Japaneses Holly Watanabeana [Ilex Crenata] This beautiful bush holly with its smooth leaves works well to line to a path or try a taller evergreen variety as a backdrop as beds and borders. There are also the
columnar varieties like the 'Sky Pencil' to that can serve as sculptural points of interest especially in areas where you wish to draw more attention..
3-Blue Hollies [Ilex x meserveae] These beauty's have the blue-green leaves that heighten the plant with its either yellow or pink flowers.
Most of the Hollies will thrive in the Zones 5-9 with some even growing in zones 4. If you need to know more about Zones of plants, flowers and much more, I did a post on Zones which I will put a link here;
This way you can check anytime you need what Zone you happen to live in... wendyjargonncom.blogspot.com/search/label/Spring%20Flowers%20For%202014
Another interesting fact about hollies is, they will grow best in well-drained pots or soil slightly with enriched acid soil or organic matter. And of course compost type of enriched soil too.[note I will do a post on another Tips From the Garden- to show you about composting].
It is also helpful for your Hollies to keep thick mulch of either pine needles or other woody material around the plant each year to help maintain the soils acidity and to keep the roots cool and moist.

My favorite of all the Hollies would be the Chinese Hollies [Ilex cornuta]. Why you might ask? Because they are partially the kind that can self-fruit and will produce berries without a male variety Hollie next to it. Just like most Berrie plants - like that of the Blue berries you have to have another right next to it for them to produce lotssss of berries. [I found this out myself with my own blue Berrie bushes] I works the same with all other hollies too, for the exception of the Male Chinese Hollie - Ilex cornuta - which will produce those bright red berry's during the winter months that will give your gardens that snap you'll love. Besides you'll also find new friends too. Many winter birds will come around that usually hadn't, that love to feed on these lovely red berries. Well I hope that you all will find some Tips for your gardens and I will see you all again for Saturudy's Tips From the Garden:o Much love to you all my dears Friends and Follower..

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First Day of Spring 2014!

Its the First day of Spring! I thought I would start off with a few

Beutiful photos and so great video's to get us all In the mood Even

though most of us all are in the Rain and snow.. I hope these images and

video's will brighten you day on the first day of SPRING!

Love you All! Your Wendy!

Happy First Day of Spring!

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Friday, August 22, 2014

Clearwing Hummingbird-

Clearwing Hummingbird

In this post I thought I would tell you about the beautiful hummingbird Clearwing.These tiny-winged creatures

hover next to flowers just like the hummingbirds, yet they use a feeding tube that rolls up quickly as they feed on the nectar of the flowers. You probably all ready know how the hummingbirds get their nectar - from some of my older posts, how they use their tiny or sometime long pecks with a very long fast tongue, that quickly sticks into the flower for food. Kinda Curious Eh! The Humming Clearwing is an moth. Its scientific name is; [Hemaris thysbe] or the Sphinx Moth. They are quite tiny just like the hummingbirds [Although if you look in some of my posts on the hummingbirds there are some hummingbirds that are a bit bigger and some a tiny as the bee hummingbird as they are called]. The Hummingbird Clearwing wingspan is about
1-1/2 to 2 inches long. These beauty's do have some distinctive markings that you could tell them apart; the

Clearwing Hummingbirds

Clearwings are surrounded by red or brown hues. Their bodies are an olive-green with reddish bands on their lower parts of their tiny body's. As to their behavior; It is quite different compared to the hummingbirds which is in constant motion. The Clearwings will fly from flower to flower and instead in constant motion they will hover almost motionless while they feed on the nectar. You will only find these beauty's mostly in meadows, forest edges and sometimes if your lucky your backyard/gardens. The Range of where this Clearwings live is all of Canada; parts of Alaska; top parts of the US like that of Washington; Oregon; Idaho; across to Ohio and over to the east coast. Of course You won't find them anywhere on the west coast and the middle of the US either. Mostly from the great lakes all the way down to the Southern states.
Why these beautiful Clearwings resemble the hummingbirds? Well first of all they are part of the Sphinx

Moth Family and they use a coiled tube that extends out of its mouth to feed, then rolls back up and out of the way. [Kinda like the hummingbird when they stick out their long tongues from their peaks and then back again]. The Hummingbird Clearwing moth uses the tube to extract the nectar form the flowers like the honeysuckle, beebalm, lilacs' snowberry and viburnum's. One could say the Clearwings are the most beautiful insects' . Unlike the hummingbirds that raise their young in a nest with only 2eggs at a time; the Clearwing female moths lay small green eggs on the underside of leaves in the early spring. They will hatch into larvae that have a prominent horn on the rear of the caterpillars.

These caterpillars will feed on either Cherry or Plum trees and honeysuckle , snowberry and hawthorn trees

Moth Hummingbird

Clearwing Hummingbird

too. When they are ready, the caterpillars will form small dark-brown cocoons in the leaf litter. Some spend winters like that, but others in the south where is a second brood, appear again in late

summer or fall. So there is the most interesting Clearwing hummingbird

I hope that you all will Enjoy this most interesting kinda hummingbird:o

I thought it was and I wish you all a wonderful weekend:o

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Dovovoy the Russian House Fairy

Domovoy the Russian House Fairy-

Domovoy Russian House Fairy

Good evening my dears, friends & followers I've been busy today
researching for many different tales for you today... Its getting close to
the ending of summer and I wanted to get a jump start on some new stories for your all.
And today I discovered the Domovoy Russian House Fairy. These house Fairies are much like the
Brownie fairies that I did some time ago. Just like the Brownie Fairies, the Russian
house fairies [and in Germany their house fairy is called the Kobold fairy] are the guardians of either a house,
barn or stable. They are generally benevolent spirits that merely guard the residence and protecting it from
evildoers. Traditionally the resident of either the house, barn or stable gives the Domovoy an offering of some kind; which is usually in the form of a block of cheese, some bread and a bowl of milk and other food.

I also discovered when researching this house fairy of Russia that he has a few different kinda names too, such as; Domoviyr; Domovoy and Dovovoy too.It seems that the very first of these house fairies were called Vazila and would besides his duties of the house with the humans, he would be in charged of protecting and tending to the humans horses to the extent that they care for no other type of creatures.

Well I hope that you all Enjoyed the Dovovoy Russian House Fairy