Native Carpenter Bee - these are always so hilarious. They fly as if they’re piloting a fl

Native Carpenter Bee - these are always so hilarious. They fly as if they’re piloting a flying winnebago while drunk. This one just crawled all over these Marigolds, in a fairly gluttonous fashion. Right now the Marigolds are the true remaining stars of the garden, and pollinators are desperately preparing for winter.Either we have lucked out with a warmer-than-usual fall, or last year was the anomaly. This is only our 2nd fall here, so there’s patterns to learn. This extra warm time has been great, but now it looks like there’s possible snow in the forecasts, so we’ll have to get back in gear on some projects - hopefully we’ll be recovered by Monday.Most of the cold-sensitive plants have been brought inside already (remaining outside: 3 baby Cavendish banana trees and the white/sacred sage Salvia apiana V grew from seed), but they haven’t been arranged yet in their final form, which means they haven’t been watered so they’ll be easier to move around. There are water-catching trays to construct, to ease indoor plant care. I may take pity on a few of the plants and give them at least a little water, but some of these containers are very, very big and who knows how they’ll end up. One thing about gardening with V, is that plants are moved a LOT. Some of that is done here out of necessity, we’re building the garden ourselves from scratch, yet brought up our old plants with us, so things were put in the first places we made available. As more beds are added, then things are put in more appropriate locations. This does mean that plants that don’t take transplant well, or more delicate plants in general, tend to end up particularly abused. On the home rebuilding/re-engineering front, we had a short but highly productive discussion, where we both realized we’d been trying to be so accommodating to each other that we had agreed on something neither of us really liked at all, and in fact, both preferred another option. Hooray for communication! I’m glad V is coming around to my thinking of ‘Destroy (Nearly) Everything, Reuse Materials’. He was originally approaching things that the more he could save or salvage, the less work he’d have to do overall, but with the terrible construction quality here, it’s really not worth the time, energy, money, and sweat in most cases to try to fix what they did. -- source link

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