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✨Daisy filled days of summer
Featured: ‘Snowcap’ Shasta daisy

🐰 Gertie sighting. And we’re missing the top

🐰 Gertie sighting. And we’re missing the top of our cabbages...bunnies.

✨Summer rain this morning.

✨Summer rain this morning.

🐰Gertie bunny report - we received many request

🐰Gertie bunny report - we received many requests for picture proof of Gertie. Last night, we finally caught her cotton tail on camera. Enjoy!

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🐰 In the last week a cottontail bunny has found

🐰 In the last week a cottontail bunny has found its way into our fenced yard. We are not quite sure how she got in but it’s been a joy to see her adorable face each morning. We named her Gertie.

Gertie started off just nibbling a few things here and there. First, she nibbled on the monkey flower. The next day, she helped herself to a cranesbill geranium and a few strawberry leaves. Now she’s onto the good stuff in the vegetable garden! My heirloom bush beans were just starting to flower this week. But yesterday, Gertie took it upon herself to chew half the row back to their stems. This morning, we discovered the remaining healthy plants taken down.

This ‘bunny tale’ highlights the joys and complexities of allowing wildlife in our gardens. When we encourage wildlife, we have to accept that sometimes they will destroy (often overnight) the hard work we put into growing our plants. But as wildlife habitat continues to be eliminated in our cities, our gardens become sanctuaries for not only the animals we want in our gardens like birds, butterflies and bees but also the creatures who we may not be as fond of like mice, skunks and rabbits.

So here’s to little Gertie nibbling! This year she gets my bush beans. Next season, I will plant extra. Some for her and hopefully some for us!

For an in-depth guide on how to encourage birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife in your garden see our recent blog post ‘Introduction to Gardening for Wildlife’. 🔗LINK IN BIO

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