April 26, 2010
Many new sprouts have appeared this week in my greenhouse. My butterfly garden is also popping up. Here are just some of the plants:
 
 
eggplant

tomatoes

cilantro in my grandpa's old strawberry pot
 
 
Yukon potatoes in a growing bag
 
 
mystery sprouts that emerged from my compost

grapes

phlox

coneflower

gaillardia Amber Wheels

Baptisa australis-will have indigo blue flowers
 
 
aster

Royal Red Butterfly bush

Helianthus

Aster

Echinacea

spearmint in an untended area

Mexican Hat

chives that come back year after year
Below: We have many hostas growing under the screened in porch



Below: carrot sprout in whiskey barrel


Above: This blueberry plant in a pot survived its first Kansas winter and seems to be healthy
April 13, 2010
        Sedgwick County Zoo
        April 12, 2010
        Bullfrogs, seedlings
        April 2, 2010
          Snow, oppossum, inside seedlings
          January 10, 2010: 
          Snow and winter birds        
          December 1, 2009
          Hardy blossoms, lettuce 
          October 20, 2009:
          Salamander and new greenhouse
          
          September 29, 2009:
        Spiders, Monarch Watch Garden 
        September 15, 2009:
        Emerging Monarchs, other insects 
        August 20, 2009:
          Swallowtail cats, geese and harvest        
          August 9, 2009:
        Rocky Mountain Natl. Park
        
        August 8, 2009:
        Butterflies, ponds, crabs, bees 
        July 7, 2009:
        Baby Purple Martins, frogs, tomatoes
        June 12, 2009:
        Baby Martins, Blue and Catbirds, gardens
        May 27, 2009:
        Bluebird eggs, Orioles, Goldfinches; many sprouts 
        May 5, 2009:
        Chives, frogs, pond plants, So. American lunch,
        rabbits, spiders
        
        April 14, 2009:
        Vultures, Purple Martins, veggie seedlings 
        April 9, 2009:
          Killdeer, ladybugs, 
        Woodpecker, goose nest 
        March 31, 2009:
        Spezzatino interview, ice storm 
        
        March 26, 2009:
          Hoophouse, mulch, red-winged blackbird