Beautiful Joanna! I did one once not far from my bedroom window and was kept up all night by the frogs making "Whoopie!" I finally added a watertight electric pump which splashed water up and around which helped mask them out and the soothing water splashing sounds helped me sleep. I'd still look out the window at night and see usually one Big Female and several little males all sitting there all around all night. I guess they were remembering the good ol' days before the "rains" started!
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So funny! Yours looks delightful with or without those type of "squatters!":) JL
Frogs in a pond: It's a good thing. Love your lupines and water lilies. You must be in coastal Maine for the Japanese maple to make it through the winter.
Hi Steve I love the sound I also have Eastern Gray Tree Frogs that came in the spring they look like they are in the Army or they tuck there legs under and look like a rock I added more photos
Those Lupine are gorgeous and the lilies are beautiful! We can only grow the Lupines as a cool season annual here. It takes a pretty controlled micro-climate to get them to look decent. But yours are wow!
We have frogs here at the nursery that drive me nuts when I am trying to do office work - little frogs make huge noise! They also like to scare the bejeebies out of me when I am moving pots around.
Thanks Do you guys have hummingbird moths I'm 59 and never seen one until this year This thing was BIG later in the spring I saw another one that was smaller and the color wasn't the same next year I get a photo of him
this year I had my magnolia reflowered its got flowers on it now not many one at a time and the flower are large its a saucer magnolia
We have sphinx moths here in Florida, mostly the hornworm varieties. I did think they were hummingbirds at first, but after seeing hummingbirds in action, I recognize the difference. The tomato and tobacco hornworms are, as we speak, eating my Virginia Creeper. I always know they are up there eating because they leave frass on my patio. Not a huge problem except when they get on my tomatoes. Then I pick them off and leave them for the birds and lizards.
Joanna the hummingbird Moths love my Moon flowers. They come just at dusk when the blooms are opening and work for about an hour. Last year there was a preying mantis sitting on a leaf which startled the moth when he moved. I have a picture somewhere I will try to find and post of you. They really tore the bloom up they were fighting over.
I usually have them by my beds off the front porch. I have not seen any this year. Donna, what other flowers do they like? This is the first year in about 14 years that I did not get around to planting my moonflower seeds.
I planted my really late this year and was rewarded with some majorly large blooms! I planted them so that I could maintain the viability of my seed. Let me know if you need a few, as it looks like I will have plenty.
I think they prefer flowers that are single, flat with a deep center like a Vinca,
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Moonflower, Daisy Gardenia but also will feed on anything with nectar they can get to even highbush blueberry.
Here in Palm Bay they like my pink trumpet vine very much...didn't plant moonflowers this year. The trumpet vine is planted a few feet away from the Virginia Creeper, which seems to be one of their favorite host plants.
We have frogs here at the nursery that drive me nuts when I am trying to do office work - little frogs make huge noise! They also like to scare the bejeebies out of me when I am moving pots around.
this year I had my magnolia reflowered its got flowers on it now not many one at a time and the flower are large its a saucer magnolia
I planted my really late this year and was rewarded with some majorly large blooms! I planted them so that I could maintain the viability of my seed. Let me know if you need a few, as it looks like I will have plenty.
I think they prefer flowers that are single, flat with a deep center like a Vinca, ...»