Patio garden
This year, I decide to create a little balcony garden.
I used to buy annual flowers every year. This year I decide to get more perennial ones, and I want different shades of color, not just green. So I bought three hardy plants and put them in the wood flower box.
They will give me blue, pink and purple flowers through out the summer.
I still have the strawberry plant, which does not growing so well. I moved it from the porcelain pot to a plastic pot. I think the porcelain pot is suffocating it because it is thick and does not drain well. Actually any flower I grow in that pot died. I move the Japanese Primrose into it and hope the shade-like plant will break the spell.
I also have tomato plants and sweet peas. Harvest is not expected, as the balcony only gets 3 hours of sunshine at day time. More work is expected, however, to fight the invasion of slugs and aphids.
The dwarf lilies are easy to care and each year reward me with their bright yellow flowers, but they last only into June.
I find myself an unwilling landlord to a huge black intimidating flying bug that has made the patio door bumper its home. It flied in and out quite busily, and one time I caught a sight of something yellow between its hind legs. Out of curiosity, I took off the bumper and looked inside. I found yellow pollen paste. The bug must have been working hard to fill the hole, as half of it was full, and divided by a "dry mud wall".
It is inside. You can see its shining bottom. Can't catch a good picture of it.
So I googled. It is very possible that it is a carpenter bee, which likes to burrow nest in wood. But this is a rubber door bumper, not wood. I was really puzzled. Or this is a very smart or lazy carpenter bee.
Anyway, my tenant looks like this:
I used to buy annual flowers every year. This year I decide to get more perennial ones, and I want different shades of color, not just green. So I bought three hardy plants and put them in the wood flower box.
They will give me blue, pink and purple flowers through out the summer.
I still have the strawberry plant, which does not growing so well. I moved it from the porcelain pot to a plastic pot. I think the porcelain pot is suffocating it because it is thick and does not drain well. Actually any flower I grow in that pot died. I move the Japanese Primrose into it and hope the shade-like plant will break the spell.
I also have tomato plants and sweet peas. Harvest is not expected, as the balcony only gets 3 hours of sunshine at day time. More work is expected, however, to fight the invasion of slugs and aphids.
The dwarf lilies are easy to care and each year reward me with their bright yellow flowers, but they last only into June.
I find myself an unwilling landlord to a huge black intimidating flying bug that has made the patio door bumper its home. It flied in and out quite busily, and one time I caught a sight of something yellow between its hind legs. Out of curiosity, I took off the bumper and looked inside. I found yellow pollen paste. The bug must have been working hard to fill the hole, as half of it was full, and divided by a "dry mud wall".
This is the door bumper.
It is inside. You can see its shining bottom. Can't catch a good picture of it.
So I googled. It is very possible that it is a carpenter bee, which likes to burrow nest in wood. But this is a rubber door bumper, not wood. I was really puzzled. Or this is a very smart or lazy carpenter bee.
Anyway, my tenant looks like this:
I don't know what to do yet. I will see tomorrow.
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