I've got a few days off from work coming up combined with a holiday weekend, so lots of planting will occur soon -- if it doesn't rain every single day like it's supposed to.
I was really liking the way the light was hitting things this calm, wet morning. So I'll keep with the "calm" part of that and not write much here.
Ok, I just have to talk about the cicadas again. They're in their 6th day of emergence in St. Louis, and I'm starting to wonder when it will end. This post's title could refer to cicadas alone...
If you stand in the wrong place and stay too still, you look like a tree:
Ok, that's enough with the cicadas for now, except to say that when they're testing out their tymbals in short bursts it sounds alarmingly like a rattlesnake (as imagined by somebody like me who has never heard a rattlesnake in person). I dare you to not jump when you walk by a shrub and one makes its noise.
So back to the calming non-insect photos:
And that's it for this morning. Although the quiet of early mornings in the garden is one of the things I love most about having a garden, I suspect it won't be found for another few weeks due to noisy cicadas. I wonder if noise-cancelling headphones work on cicada calls?
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Photos after my own heart! My post today is similarly short on words.
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Looks like you can taste your blueberries pretty soon, but with only one plant, I'm sure you will want to get a lot more once you taste how good fresh blueberries are.
ReplyDeleteI got lucky since there was a closeout sale, getting 13 of them at $2 a piece, and the ones started from seed are getting much bigger this year already so they might start fruiting next year a little bit.
Beautiful photos Alan.
ReplyDeleteI invested in two blueberry plants this year. There are a few berries coming, so looking forward to trying those.
I've got them in pots, in ericacious compost, as recommended by everything I read.
Been really impressed with how attractive the plants look too.
Steve -- you must have missed the post where I got a second variety of blueberry. Although I'd love to have the space for 13 blueberry bushes someday, right now I do not. Two potted plants are about all I can handle.
ReplyDeleteJono -- no fair teaching me new botanical words in the comments! ;-)
If you haven't seen already, blueberries, can over-winter easily in pots just sitting around with no protection at all even at -9F so you don't really have to find a permanent spot for them.
ReplyDeleteAnyways I've heard the birds love them. Robins have already built a nest in my cherry tree which should provide fruit for them in a couple weeks so I wouldn't mind them building a nest by my blueberries too.