We have been working on rebuilding our website and it is slowly coming along, please take a visit:
http://www.alkonyatrosegarden.com/
We have a long way to go with it, but it is showing definite signs of progress. Today I plan to update the pages on the blog a bit. Tomorrow we hope for some rain, it is still something we have had little of for almost a year, so if it does rain, I will continue with the many updating tasks.
We noticed almost no bees on the fruit trees so far this spring, it used to be you could hardly hear yourself think there were so many. Perhaps the cold and drought have diminished their numbers? We will have to look into getting our own bee box if we continue to see a lack of pollinators. With more than 100 fruit trees, 1000 roses and all the other plants here and at our neighbors, they will need to be work-a-holic bees!
We plan to go pond fish shopping soon, we sadly lost all of our pond fish over the winter and we rely on them to eat the mosquito larvae in our 4 ponds. We had one of the worst cold spells ever this winter and the inside tank we kept them in froze over, this never happened before. We are pretty sad about it, some of those Koi we have had for years and they were quite friendly.
The past few nights have seen temps just below freezing, we hope the many fruit blossoms and Japanese Maples will not be badly affected.
On a happy note, we had a breeding pair of toads in the upper pond over the weekend, we hope for tadpoles soon! We used to have many more toads than we have seen in the past few years. And the little bit of rain is making the peas sprout, we planted more than we should have as usual. We have some of the most beautiful tomato and pepper seedlings we have ever had. We came across some lovely plants over the holiday weekend, a few great sales too and soon the annual flower show will be here!
Life is never more bad than good when you have a garden of love to tend!
