Re: [gardeners] My garden

George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:11:28 -0500 

The little bird in the corn patch looks like a House Finch, about 3-5 inches
long with purplish red on breast, flanks, and back. We have lots of them around
here too. The rest of the garden certainly looks better than ours did in July.
Very good pictures too.

George

"David G. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Finally I got around to putting together some more garden pictures,
> including one of the front of the house.  It looks awfully bare to me, and
> it looks like we're going to lose the dogwood (just visible in the left of
> the picture) to dogwood anthracnose.  There's a dead dogwood a couple of
> houses down on direction, and a very sick one a couple of houses the other
> way.  Ours has the brown spots on the leaves, but doesn't look bad from a
> distance.  I'm thinking I'd like to get a Chaste-tree (more blue flowers!)
> to replace it.
> 
> Anyway, here are the pictures:
> http://www.delanet.com/~margecl/garden/
> 
> David
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: penny x stamm <pennyx1@Juno.com>
> To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 3:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] My garden
> 
> > David -- your photography is superb!  Not only are the
> > pictures crystal clear, but you have captured the many
> > kinds of blue -- which I find extremely difficult to do!
> >
> > Eventually you must allow us to see a view of the house,
> > so we can understand how the flowers are used..
> >
> > BTW, this cannot be Newark, New Jersey --?  I am only
> > a stone's throw from there, and our area flowers are
> > definitely NOT in bloom.... and our veggies are not
> > producing yet. Oh, except for radishes.
> >
> > On the subject of the baby birds, was the nest in a
> > low and vulnerable position? The only way I can
> > visualize their disappearance when newborn would
> > be from a cat, a giant condor perhaps...? or a
> > neighborhood boy.  That's sad.
> >
> > Very pleased to have had the opportunity to share your
> > family page!
> >
> > Penny, NY
> >
> >
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