I have been traveling a LOT lately – this past weekend was my first weekend in town for seven weeks. While I LOVE to travel and have been doing some fun stuff – welding classes, glass torch classes, visits to Palm Springs, Mexico, Chicago, Austin and Texas Hill Country, it is REALLY great to be home for just a minute or so.
So, Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday were devoted to weeding the backyard and putting pine straw mulch around everything. It looks so good! Now I’m just waiting for the Winghaven plant sale in early April to fill in things that have died over the winter or just plain old empty spots. If I find a empty square foot, I will stuff a plant into it!
First things first however, the spousal unit helped me put up 4 new bluebird houses this weekend. If you live in North Carolina (or really anywhere, thanks to the Internet), the best bluebird houses are made by Dan Finch of “Homes for Bluebirds“. I bought these 4 ($20 each), put them up and am hopefully awaiting tenants. Not sure about the bluebird nesting “season” – I just hope I wasn’t out traveling around too long and missed the whole thing. I will keep you posted!
We put two on garden posts and the other two on free standing posts in the back yard.
These cute bird houses are super easy to install and are shipped with “idiot-proof” instructions.
Other additions this weekend include two new hummingbird feeders to add to the one we have had since moving here. I recently attended a “Horticultural Symposium” at Davidson College and one of the speakers completely recommended this model – they are called the “Perky Pet Grand Master” – hilarious name, but I fell for the sales pitch, so we now have 3 total hummingbird feeders.
The little red cup on top of the hummingbird feeder is filled with water to drown ants who trek out into the feeder. I found that at my local Ace hardware store a few years ago – we were having a terrible problem with ants and this little item totally cured that!
Also have seen NO hummingbirds yet, but they should show up soon!
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