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GROWING PERENNIALS IN ZONE 6 OF NEW YORK STATE ... RAISING BUTTERFLIES ... COMMUNITY GARDENING

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!




A view from our porch during the evening's snowfall ....






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First Tomato of the Season - Early Girl Variety

Monarch Cat on Common Milkweed

Monarch Cat on Common Milkweed

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There were several butterfly visitors to the garden this weekend including a viceroy, red-spotted purple sheltering in our apple tree, a male monarch and tiger swallowtail.

Viceroy

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Butterflies are self-propelled flowers ~ R.H. Heinlein

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Spring in the Perennial Path

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I've been a Western New Yorker my entire life, enjoying the distinct changes of the four seasons in our area of the country. Spring is always welcome after our cold and snowy winters with snowdrops, daffodils and primrose among our first garden arrivals, signaling the beginning of the busy garden season.
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"Passionate Returns" re-bloomer daylily

"Passionate Returns" re-bloomer daylily

"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye ... "

"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye ... "
TIME FOR THE CORN FESTIVAL!

Sunflowers at the Community Garden

Sunflowers at the Community Garden
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do. Helen Keller

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The luxury of all summer's sweet sensation is to be found when one lies at length in the warm, fragrant grass, soaked in sunshine, aware of regions of blossoming clover and of a high heaven filled with the sum of innumerous bees. Harriet E. Prescott, August, 1865

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Such a cutie, warts & all

Such a cutie, warts & all

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The Baby Toes are Blooming!

The Baby Toes are Blooming!

Curious Cody

Curious Cody

Red Velvet Daylily

Red Velvet Daylily

Blueberries & Cream Daylilies (Hemerocallis)

Blueberries & Cream Daylilies (Hemerocallis)

Monarch on Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica)

Monarch on Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica)

Hosta

Hosta

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