My Yard

My Yard

The www.gourdgrower.com site went live. I am selling a few of the gourds I have decorated so I will have the space I need to place the new gourds I have decorated in the last few months.

I started decorating gourds some years ago, then started growing them so I could decorate 'My Gourds,' the gourds I grew in my garden in my back yard.

My Yard

My Yard

The www.gourdgrower.com site went live. I am selling a few of the gourds I have decorated so I will have the space I need to place the new gourds I have decorated in the last few months.

I started decorating gourds some years ago, then started growing them so I could decorate 'My Gourds,' the gourds I grew in my garden in my back yard.

3 Beautiful flowers 

Same bloom..... different view. 

This waterlily plant has bloomed so often this summer. I bought this plant that I thought would be pink so I don't know it's name.  

Six of the Hens and Chicks bloomed. My Mother said they were called roosters. 

Peach Cannas 

Yellow Cannas 

Red Cannas 

I got this cactus from my brother's farm and did not know where to put it so that's why it's in a pot. I will put the pot in the ground for winter protection. Free plants,a good thing. 

The last and smallest gourd of 5 for 2005 season. Not at all what I thought I was getting but I'll take them anyway. 

This gourd is hanging straight down, it's the photographer that wasn't. The brick is so the bottom would be flat for sitting. I hung it with twine to the trellis and would adjust it as needed. Probably my favorite gourd this year. 

An interesting event. This Hens and Chicks grew out showing new ones inside. 

Aug. 28, 2005 

Another view. 

Here are my Swallowtail Butterflies. 6 in one picture. This has been a 'once-in-a-life' experience. All because I saw a wasp attack a caterpillar and I wanted to save what I could.

I guess I kept the butterflies to long. I was able to set 3 free and I lost 2 of them. I found them on the ground and will find a way to display them. 3 are unacounted for so I feel they freed themselves, I sure hope so.

My first Swallowtail Butterfly. Beautiful. 

To save the caterpillars the cage was smaller. This is my cage for keeping the butterflies around till I get home from work to see them.I included flower for them and will add a pan to water later. Any time after Monday I could have butterflies. Check back, Please.  

My latest adventure has been Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillars. I saw one get attack by a wasp and I knew I had to protect them some how. So with stakes, clothes pins and netting I was able to save the rest of them, I have 7 Chrysalis now.They all look alike so I won't show you 7 pictures. Watching it go from a caterpillar to a chrysalis was awesome and only a movie camera would do it justice. 

These gourds are probably dippers. They look like a bowl with a long handle. Abour 30 ins. long. 1 is straight and 4 are curved. Not sure what I will do with them. 

This is my gourd patch for 2005. It is 2 plants and has 5 gourds. I planted seeds from a small gourd and got big ones. 

Tulip Lotus day 2 

This is a Tulip Lotus. It is a small lotus, about 12 ins. tall, above water line. Day 1.