To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
I know what you mean about the bugs ,I am the same way,but I find Stick bugs and praying mantis's fascinating.In fact we found a praying mantis a few years back and brought it home and put it in a bug cage thingy.It got out one night and my cat made dinner out of it,all we could find were the legs.LOL.
I love this thread,because we all come up with need suggestions and answers on how to improve our yards.
To: Mrs.Nooseman
"I love this thread,because we all come up with need suggestions and answers on how to improve our yards." Yep. That was the idea. That, and to post neat links and pictures.
371 posted on
02/20/2005 8:18:13 AM PST by
sweetliberty
("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
To: Mrs.Nooseman
I love seeing the Praying Mantis too. I'm tempted to buy them. They sell eggs locally. I imagine the birds could eat the eggs before they hatch though. I buy the live ladybugs. My daughter has a great time playing and then releasing them. I won't tell her I see the Jays coming in after she has released them.
376 posted on
02/20/2005 9:48:56 AM PST by
GodBlessUSA
(No, just because my user-name was on that thread-I'm not a troll. 4 years of posting and 1+lurking.)
To: Mrs.Nooseman; GodBlessUSA
One year I had a spathyphyllum on the porch all summer and one
evening after I brought it in in the fall hundreds of little clear bugs started coming out of it. A mantis had made a nest in the plant! they were so small and so many! after that I was very careful. The nest looked like a large wad of brown chewing gum on the stem. I have also noticed mantis seem to stay in one area-for instance I had one that inhabited the upper leaves of a sunflower. Every day you could go out and find him there. Its amazing the little habitats we have in our yards.
379 posted on
02/20/2005 11:04:03 AM PST by
I_saw_the_light
(Grackles, Grackles, they raise my hackles.)
To: Mrs.Nooseman; sweetliberty; GodBlessAmerica; All
At the garden show yesterday, I figured out what kind of shrub I will be looking to plant for a border of my sidewalk in the garden. Nandina. I'll plant 4 down each side which will leave enough space in between for some varieties of annuals for color, and texture. I am also going to try some hosta this year.
Anyone plant any of these two plants? Any suggestions. From what I've read and been told, they are pretty easy/hardy to grow, just what I'm looking for:)
I'm wanting to get "some" perinnials, but leave room for annuals for varity, and to change it some each year.
Becky
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