Living in NYC can be a little overwhelming. You can find yourself surrounded by concrete and steel so much that you don’t get a feeling of any nature. We are so fortunate to have the back yard. What is astonishing though is that very few of our neighbors actually spend any time in their own back yards. The area has gotten so overgrown in some of the yards that wildlife has checked in. I’m not talking city rats and pigeons. I’m talking mini-eco-system.
I’ve identified at least a hundred species of birds that regularly visit. A colony of monk parakeets has created a huge nest about 5 houses east of us. I think there are 4 or 5 pairs of them. One chased a Northern Harrier away last Friday. Amazing!
We’ve been trying to plant the garden successfully too. I’m extremely patient. Jack is not. I like to plant from seeds. Jack wants to hire someone to plant fully grown plants. Well in the 3 years that we’ve had the garden, my seeds are doing great. We now have moth mulleins, rattlesnake master, bee balm, ox-eye sunflowers, astilbe, ironweed, sedums, and many others. I did give in to some non-native plantings this year. I planted tulips. I’ll admit they are nice.
The ferns I started from spores are starting to take off. We have marginal shield ferns and Christmas ferns. They are native to
C’est tout!
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