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Pondtificate: to go on at length about one's pond
Some year or other I will actually post pictures as I take them. This spring was not it; therefore there will be three of this post.
Ms Froggy! (photo taken May 18) It's not particularly clear in this picture, but she is a female Northern Green Frog, which I could tell because a) her tympanium (the big round spot below the eye, here obscured by a root) is smaller than her eye (same size or smaller is female, larger is male) and she has a pair of "dorsilateral ridges" running from behind her eyes down her back. (If she didn't have those, she would be a young bullfrog.) At this point she's got a pondmate who I haven't managed to get a good look at, so I don't know if they're two alike or what.
This is what the pond looked like on May 16:
The snails were actually the first thing to turn up after the mosquitoes & diving beetles:
May 22, Blueberries and two colors of sugar snap peas:
The blueberries are still going strong, though it's gotten hot enough that the peas are struggling.
May 24, riotous sundrops in the front garden. They do this for a month or two:
Ms Froggy! (photo taken May 18) It's not particularly clear in this picture, but she is a female Northern Green Frog, which I could tell because a) her tympanium (the big round spot below the eye, here obscured by a root) is smaller than her eye (same size or smaller is female, larger is male) and she has a pair of "dorsilateral ridges" running from behind her eyes down her back. (If she didn't have those, she would be a young bullfrog.) At this point she's got a pondmate who I haven't managed to get a good look at, so I don't know if they're two alike or what.
This is what the pond looked like on May 16:
The snails were actually the first thing to turn up after the mosquitoes & diving beetles:
May 22, Blueberries and two colors of sugar snap peas:
The blueberries are still going strong, though it's gotten hot enough that the peas are struggling.
May 24, riotous sundrops in the front garden. They do this for a month or two:
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You have so much beauty around you.
Did you plant the blueberries? Or do they grow wild?
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I got the blueberry bush (and hazelnuts, and blackberries) from a native plant nursery in Baltimore. About the only plants that have seeded in (besides the appalling quantities of invasive things like english ivy) are the white things behind the pond in the may pictures, which are one of those weedy native annuals that normal people pull up.
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