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A nice garden visitor
Our garden is often visited by a variety of insects. This is important as they pollinate the plants. The most common visitors are bees and wasps. But there are also pests that eat the plants. Well, yesterday we had an unexpected visitor – a European mantis, aka Preying mantis/Praying mantis. We have these large insects…
Garden produce – August, 2026
We were sitting on the deck eating breakfast and I was thinking about how much we have been getting from our garden. Every day we have a variety of tomatoes. Most of the cherry tomatoes go into salads or are just eaten from a bowl. We’re getting about a dozen in the morning and again…
Orange-fringed Orchid
We made our annual visit to Bishops Bog, in Portage, south of Kalamazoo to look for Orange-fringed Orchids. We were able to locate 27 this year, along with two species of sundews. We were with our friends Mike and Linda and had a great time.
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