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Fred's Garden Blog

After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

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Fred versus the cats, round 4....

I'm beginning to think this is a battle I'm never going to win.  The cats are back and they are hungry as hell.   Good grief, it was just a week or so ago that I resorted to chemical warfare to get them under control...or at least I thought I did.  I guess that's the price you pay when you have a yard full of blooming plants...
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and yet another bug du jour...

Tonight's creature of the night is this rather interesting yellow garden orb weaver spider.  Usually I find these things the easy way by running into their webs at night followed by the sensation of feeling 8 legs scurrying across my face!Maybe this will end up being a daily feature after all?    
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tonight's bug du jour....

While out for a moonlit stroll amongst my Angel Trumpets tonight I stumbled upon this handsome fellow.  He was working his way up my Snowbank brugmansia plant.I'm used to seeing the green praying mantis around my plants but I think this is the first time I spotted one this color.He was on a mission to climb up to the top of this five foot tall plant.I asked him to pray for blooms on this plant and he kindly obliged!
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Death to cats!!!!!

Not the feline type, I like four legged cats.  I'm talking about the linear cats, as in caterpillars!This summer I have been fighting what appears to be a losing battle with these pests.  I've already had three major infestations and with all the moths and butterflies I've seen flying around the past couple of days, I'm sure the 4th is only a week or two away.Last week I resorted to chemical warfare in hopes of knocking them down fast.  Spraying is a pain in the butt!  It takes close to 50 ...
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