Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Friday, August 15, 2003
Weather: mostly sunny, hot and humid yesterday, but poured down rain on Wednesday evening
Chores: deadheaded yesterday
Planting: couldn't resist a few more 1/2 price plants at Cox Farms, so I bought and potted up a bright red Lantana, a blue-purple Angelonia, and Cuphea 'Twinkle Pink'. This last one has very tiny flowers, but it supposed to produce them in abundance.
Birds: yesterday, saw goldfinches feeding other goldfinches with seed from the Nuttery feeder, and this morning saw a red-bellied woodpecker feeding another the same way. The birds being fed do not look like baby birds to me, so why is this and is it common behaviour?
Butterflies: no pictures today, but yesterday saw a Monarch here at home, and a Giant Swallowtail while at Cox Farms. Also noticed this morning that a fair number of Asclepias tuberosa have been completely defoliated (more monarch butterflies?), and the oak leaves just above the Buddleja are skeletonized (don't know what feeds on oaks particularly). Hope they are "nice" larvae and not something nasty like Gypsy Moths.
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