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Some of the reasons I don't spray pesticides ...
Every spring I notice at least one or two colonies of bumble bees living
in the garden. They do a fabulous job of pollinating in the early spring, long before the other pollinators appear. They feast on the Pulmonaria and Vinca from early April on, and then get busy with the myriad, sweet-smelling blooms of the wild black currant in mid-month. No blooms in the garden wants for their attention all season long. A big clump of ladybugs hibernated somewhere at the base of the plum tree. They marched out one sunny spring morning and got right to it. Their children and grandchildren have been controlling the aphids, not just on the fruit trees and the roses, but in most of the garden as well. I grow an abundance of flowers for bees and butterflies on the sunny south facing slope ... and if you grow them, they will come. The Monarchs are starting to show up now, fluttering among the echinacea and the butterfly bushes. Sometimes, in the fall, I see them swarming overhead before they head south across the lake. I leave the seed heads in the wildflower slope up for the winter. By early spring, all the seeds have been eaten by local birds and the hungry migrants returning from places I'd rather be. EV |
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