tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870Thu, 24 May 2012 23:13:28 +0000snow flakenative wild flowersblackberriesfrogdogwoodhoop housespepperssnow dropSandhilloutsidepennantsPoppyHenry's Elfinradishlady bugfleabanecamelliashosesparrowsbenchesporchfalse nettlecolumbineOcconeecheefoxtailArugulaLittle BannerprimrosepaperbushflickerMonsantoSwallowtailhalloweenwood stovelettucesun yard artBaccharissunflowersSatyrberriesSeaside DragonletmolehoneysucklemariposacatsBamboo grassodonatesmantispansiesrainpuffbirdicePurple FinchlupinemeadowhawkrobberfliesSpring Azurearandiipeachescosmoscereustrout lilytire planters.Citrine Forktailstained glassdamselfliesshrubscucumbersdog cookiesnuthatchesplantingGMOsorchidstrogonappalachian brownpinksteryard arthostaswildflowersSkimmerObamavarroa treatmentzucchiniplantMay AppleLittle Glassywingsunflowerold decksnapdragonPainted Buckeyepawpawweedsgivingplantsmorning gloryphloxSwamp DarnerlatticeAmerican ToadpondbanksPapilio polyxenesorganicMonarchsulphurElfin SkimmerlawnbloodrootmilkweedSpringtime DarnerMegCheckered SkipperfametreefrogSleepy Orangeearly springediblehawkpoplarpossumbee vacuumtuxedoNorthern pearly-eyebird bathcatusEastern Ringtaildamselflyflycatcherbottle wallviolasartwaterliliesspriteoccupygourdsbelizecornAmerican LadycicadaGreen DarnerflamingoRubyspotSely's Sundragoncrocuslive oakcarrotsairlie gardensmulchpeeperAdirondackice plantUmber Shadowdragonkittiesspring bulbsde-icerrootsspring ephemeralMonarch migrationrareGrumpywoodpeckersMallardsquashRattlebushvegetablesjewelwingbutterfly macroflowersturtlesJonquillafrostseedlingsdragonflybleeding heartlawn mowerBrown Elfinpollenspreadwingcatkinsirisapple blossumsnakepeasdaffodillandfill rescuevenus flytrapbluetpomegranateAzure BluetPlanthopperday lilyEastern Tiger SwallowtailemperorsringletfrozentreesCalifornia Tortoiseshelltulipsskippermintpotatoesasterssnaketailcrashharbingergreensrapebottle treeorange tabbyelfinwildflowerlambsquartersanddragonscheckerspotWhite Milkweedsapbutterfly. flowersinensiscold framesMeadow BeautySkinkbeekeepingmustardqueenplumcyclamenHenrymidistreakYellow Flaginsectbirdsbleeding heartsTradescantiakittensDandelionfaslcateazaleatickseed sunflowercaterpillarsSpiketailorangetiphelleboressproutsspiderFalcate Orangetipscreenedfunny videokitegingerbutterflies. hairstreakconcrete counter topstablecopperheadgoatsplotchairsconesrain barrelspuppets. 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We opened up beehives in two groups and looked at the bees. Lots of new discoveries were made my some of the newer beekeepers. I brought my friend Scott along and it was his first time with a group of beekeepers. We http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Atk6Jsc33cU/ocbaacba-joint-beekeepers-field-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Atk6Jsc33cU" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/05/ocbaacba-joint-beekeepers-field-day.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-7454678243542064594Mon, 14 May 2012 01:58:00 +00002012-05-14T07:12:16.032-04:00honeybeekeeping On Saturday Dave, Ursula and Wyatt came over to help with a honey harvest, my first. They brought a 2 frame extractor and we put it to good use. Ursula and I did the frame pulling and inspections, while 8 year old Wyatt helped with covering the honey as we brought it to him.  All said and done we got between 35 and 40 pounds of honey! They did not have a lot of time to stick around so I ended uphttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Mm8Q4TtKteI/first-honey-harvest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Mm8Q4TtKteI" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/05/first-honey-harvest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-986063509948580136Sun, 06 May 2012 11:01:00 +00002012-05-09T18:04:08.473-04:00beekeepingBees look as if they want to swarm. No resources to hive them if they do swarm currently on a Sunday morning. Update 8:30AM The bees have slowly dispersed and look to be back to normal. I might be wanting to get some frames this week to do a second split on this hive. Update: 2:30PM They swarmed and they swarmed big time. See the video below of my bees 50 ft up an oak tree. Update 5:30PM http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/FWG9omXGRUk/630-am-after-rain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/FWG9omXGRUk" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/05/630-am-after-rain.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-1450297788256915819Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:45:00 +00002012-04-29T09:45:16.209-04:00beekeepingYesterday we installed Scott's bees, he is just starting out and I'm mentoring him. They have a really nice garden and a great location for bees, they should do well there. here is the video of Scott installing the bees. After we installed Scott's bees we headed to my house to install a queen in the Hillsborough cut out hive. I showed Scott the bees we cut out of Lindsey's house on Wednesday.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/SJJrjvoB34k/scotts-bees-and-lindsey-hive-queen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/SJJrjvoB34k" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/scotts-bees-and-lindsey-hive-queen.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-7037127022991231658Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:17:00 +00002012-04-26T21:17:22.206-04:00bee swarmbeekeepingGuess we have enough bees here now. I have to talk to the owners of the farm down the road to see if they want more bee hives. Yesterday I removed bees from a ceiling in a closet about 5 miles from here. We dropped the bees into the box of bees I took out of a basement a few weeks ago. Used  newspaper between boxes so the bees can adjust to each other in the same hive, otherwise they might just http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Lr7FgpmVtdE/more-bees.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Lr7FgpmVtdE" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-bees.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-3142307729096879080Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:18:00 +00002012-04-16T22:18:41.689-04:00bee swarmbeekeepingThis morning I was home taking care of business and got a call from the OCBA Swarm Patrol that a swarm was in a tree and  could I go get it? I said yes as I looked at the cardboard nuk box Meg bought me 2 weeks ago. So I rushed about to put the box together and gathered my things to go get this swarm 7 foot up in a tree. Brought the camera but left the memory card, darn.. Got there and the swarmhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/jAb9kEAEO_w/honey-bee-swarm-grabbed-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)14<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/jAb9kEAEO_w" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/honey-bee-swarm-grabbed-today.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-8127558293044986630Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:45:00 +00002012-04-13T20:45:27.268-04:00play house This week we did a special project to a child's birthday. He wanted a tree house but they did not have any trees to build it on. So we built a play house about 6 foot off the ground. The house is 4ft x 6ft and the porch is 2ft x 6ft. Talk about excited kids! We were going to have two small storm windows, but could not find any small enough to look right and we worried that large glass windows http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/JbQGEm8Lfkc/play-house-in-trinity-park.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)10<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/JbQGEm8Lfkc" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/play-house-in-trinity-park.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-2196987673393011060Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:36:00 +00002012-04-09T21:41:18.573-04:00bee swarmgardeningbeekeepingI know some of you have been waiting to see the Kenya Top Bar Hive I built and Meg painted. Found plans on the internet and modified them to suit my needs. It was built mostly from scrap wood, the bars, roof, trim and legs. I bought the 1 x 12s spruce for the main box and joined them to become 1 x 14s, spent about $30 on that wood. The bottom screen and roof tin was scrap I had laying around. I'mhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/v-tbSFaBhc8/new-kenya-top-bar-hive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/v-tbSFaBhc8" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-kenya-top-bar-hive.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-7707840143658968625Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:15:00 +00002012-04-07T21:29:26.100-04:00feral beehivebee vacuumbeekeepingFolks, Today Kitty and I did a big beehive cut out today. I'd helped with one last year and this was Kitty's first. Kitty is also a blogger find her at Labyrinth Farm.  Kitty has posted about the cut out with lots of photos here. This hive has been inside a shed wall for about 20 years. It measured 24" x 42" and was 4 1/2" deep. We filled 2 deeps with 15  frames of bees, brood,  comb, honey and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/wMs2jerwffw/first-beehive-cut-out-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/wMs2jerwffw" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-beehive-cut-out-today.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-2038663336856883762Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:34:00 +00002012-04-04T20:34:28.410-04:00bee swarmbeekeepingThe swarm I caught on Monday was pretty small covering only 1 1/2 frames in the hive. Today I moved them into a 10 frame deep made into a dual nuk. In other words one hive box that holds two smaller bee colonies. Anyway the girls were very easy to work with no threats from any of them. I did get photos of queen Kimberly as seen below in the center of the photos. I'm no expert but she looks to behttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/yy0lqaLIJDE/queen-kimberly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/yy0lqaLIJDE" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/queen-kimberly.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-2316754819160002909Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:39:00 +00002012-04-03T08:17:39.049-04:00bee swarmbeekeepingToday I got a call from our local bee club (Orange County Beekeepers Association) that two swarms were in an Eastern Red Cedar tree not too far away. I gathered my gear and headed over there. Once I arrived I knew why the bees were there, the garden was fabulous with lots of flowers for the bees.  One swarm was bigger and about 20 foot up in a 25 foot tall cedar, not very promising to get to at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Q5-F76Zzdbw/my-first-swarm-capture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Q5-F76Zzdbw" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-first-swarm-capture.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-7253895304383955535Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:16:00 +00002012-04-01T22:16:24.428-04:00catspoplarclematisYes Tulip Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera this is the flowers our honey bees make most of their honey with. Normally one can not see the buds or the flowers because they are high up in the trees. Our ponds edge has poplar saplings with buds so we can watch them develop. Tulip Poplar bud, I knew they were starting budding this morning because the porch had lots of those leaves at the bottom of thehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/06hz4UtG8wM/waiting-on-these-flowers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/06hz4UtG8wM" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/waiting-on-these-flowers.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-3250438323448485809Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:31:00 +00002012-03-30T23:31:09.402-04:00phloxcarrotsdoggy rampbeekeepingEveryone, Both our dogs are getting very old. Dot is 16 Daisy is 17. Daisy only wants to go out the front door, someone needs to let here out. Guess what she does not ask to be let out either, so she puddles or otherwise. Yes we have a pet door but Daisy does not like walking down 6-7 steps to get to the back yard. So the again she leaves messes by the front door and does not use the pet door. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/6Jgb0kq6liQ/doggy-ramp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/6Jgb0kq6liQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/doggy-ramp.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-4673173781742329791Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:47:00 +00002012-03-24T09:47:49.503-04:00peaspollenbutterfliesgardenClouds of oak pollen the past 2-3 days here. This morning a long steady rain is helping wash it away. The Purple Rain pansies here yesterday were blooming almost green with pollen. Driving from Durham to Hillsborough(10 miles at most) I counted 6 clouds of pollen along the way. Usually Loblolly Pines are the trees creating pollen clouds here, these areas had little in the way of pines, had to be http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/FMulpBhrlsg/that-green-stuff-and-book-cover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)15<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/FMulpBhrlsg" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/that-green-stuff-and-book-cover.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-1391936726341105999Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:41:00 +00002012-03-22T22:37:42.781-04:00top bar hivebeekeepingYesterday a small group of friends got together to install Kittie and Chucks bees in their new Top Bar hives! I'd only seen one of these hives before and it was a rough build. These hives were very professionally made, they even have a window you can see inside. Kittie and Chuck also have a gardening and bee blog, be sure to check them out! I should have taken a video, instead I took 19 still http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/wajdfJdB0ic/installing-bees-in-top-bar-hive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/wajdfJdB0ic" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/installing-bees-in-top-bar-hive.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-868437947950474391Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:16:00 +00002012-03-18T19:17:09.681-04:00camelliasprimrosehelleboresI missed March bloom day, enjoy these flowers from our garden.  I found this native anemone "Windflower" growing wild in the hellebore and camellia garden yesterday. There are lots of these growing wild in the garden.  My first baby hellebore bloom. Not sure where where it was collected, planted in the spring of 2010. I think it is a real beauty! There are 25 or so other hellebore babies not http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/56BQD8eQg7M/new-hellebores-primroses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)10<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/56BQD8eQg7M" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-hellebores-primroses.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-5736129593043721077Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:29:00 +00002012-03-17T22:29:13.471-04:00bee swarmbeekeepingI thought some of you might enjoy seeing the new nuk beehive and the swarm traps I made.  Here is the new nuk entirely made by myself mostly from scrap lumber. I did buy a 1 x 12 to make the deep body. The roof top is left over aluminum flashing. The bees are getting adjusted as I only saw a few of them coming and going today. The glass jar is a boardman sugar water feeder.  Here is my home made http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Ky1IdHc20t4/swarm-traps-and-nuk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Ky1IdHc20t4" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/swarm-traps-and-nuk.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-758583731500616955Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:18:00 +00002012-03-15T22:18:18.161-04:00daffodilsbeekeepingThe past two nights and tonight included we have had several windows open and turned off the heat. We hear the American Toads calling most of the night, it is my favorite time of year, the frog and toad concerts. Also been hearing Pickerel Frogs calling once in a while, I had a photo of one in my last posting. Eastern Painted Turtles are now lining the edge of the pond, have been for weeks. OK, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/bvJ6D9qsZ6U/oh-my-what-crazy-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/bvJ6D9qsZ6U" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/oh-my-what-crazy-day.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-750023878649291896Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:53:00 +00002012-03-12T22:53:28.462-04:00froggardeningbeekeepingJust what no beekeeper wants to find in his beehives swarm cells. There were 5-6 of these on the bottom of the second box in my hive on Sunday.  I was giving my girls a powdered sugar treatment of varroa mites. I had to share with you this photos of  these 5 girls working on this swarm cell. Hoping they will stay put until Thursday, when we are doing a small split, by setting up a 5 frame nuk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/CbCWRPuO00I/swarm-cells.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)13<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/CbCWRPuO00I" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/swarm-cells.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-3064324250946974642Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:29:00 +00002012-03-09T20:55:22.921-05:00Mallardstained glasshelleboresgardeningbeekeepingGot a surprise yesterday morning. I was treating the bees with powered sugar for varrora mites and all the sudden the female Mallard duck landed in the pond in a big huff. She was having a small fit, but I could not watch because I was in the beehive. A little recent history on the Mallards. They have been dropping in on the pond for about 2 months. About 2 weeks ago the male would be seen most http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/Pj8pA7zcfVs/march-garden-stained-glass.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)16<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/Pj8pA7zcfVs" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-garden-stained-glass.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-2765229911096135110Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:35:00 +00002012-03-03T16:02:08.047-05:00potscamelliaspollenbeekeepingHere is one of my girls gathering pollen inside 'R. L. Wheeler' Camellia japonica. Still learning to keep it in focus. You can see the bee placing the pollen inside her pollen basket!  If you did not know you can click on YouTube on the bottom right and see this video full screen. My second try on another honey bee, this time with the camellia flower in the sun. Listen to the sound you can http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/-chtK9Gz3G0/bee-gathering-pollen-inside-camellia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)12<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/-chtK9Gz3G0" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/bee-gathering-pollen-inside-camellia.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-9095961362082000264Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:49:00 +00002012-03-01T19:34:35.137-05:00peasearly springspinachAs many of you might recall I planted Super Sugar Snap Peas on January 26. Growing peas  we need to get an extra early start on them because it gets very hot by May here in North Carolina. I'm pretty happy with them thus far, Meg has barely seen them as she has long work days as a teacher. Here is what one of the rows look like.You just can not plant peas too thick. We had a few diggers that eathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/734cndWH-A0/peas-update-march-01.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)10<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/734cndWH-A0" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/03/peas-update-march-01.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-8678358660997486963Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:13:00 +00002012-02-27T23:13:10.788-05:00cyclamenhelleboresHope everyone enjoyed the last series of photos of Pine Knots best hellebores in their garden. Here are the 7 hellebores and 2 cyclamens we purchased at the hellebore festival.  This double hellebore (above and below are the same) was likely the prettiest one we picked out. Granted now we arrived 30 minutes into day 2 of the festival a lot of the best doubles had been picked over. This one is onhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/qQqX3OjrWYo/our-new-hellebores-from-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)12<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/qQqX3OjrWYo" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-new-hellebores-from-festival.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-3289527795087884175Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:42:00 +00002012-02-25T20:42:36.246-05:00helleboresWell we arrived about 30 minutes after the festival started, barely a parking space. A lot of the best hellebores had been chosen already. The plan was to get 2 maybe 3, instead we got 7. I'll show you in the next post what we got. The day was sunny, chilly and extremely windy, so getting good garden photos was a real challenge. Here are some of the hellebores from the gardens at Pine Knot Farmhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/sVwjPvUzuk4/pine-knot-farms-hellebore-fest-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)12<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/sVwjPvUzuk4" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/02/pine-knot-farms-hellebore-fest-2012.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800870.post-8247690818900242477Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:12:00 +00002012-03-09T19:31:56.717-05:00varroa treatmentcrocushelleboresLast Spring I purchased a Corsican Hellebore, I'd been admiring the same plant on Catherine's blog in the Pacific Northwest. Once I stumbled onto the plant I just had to have it. Corsican Hellebore, unlike most of the other hellebores in our garden this one grows many flowers on the same stem, there will be 4-5 other flower this year. In future years it should have a lot more than this first http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~3/9_OWsCaY-Jw/new-hellebores-blooming-in-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Randy Emmitt)14<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RandyAndMegsGardenParadise/~4/9_OWsCaY-Jw" height="1" width="1"/>http://rlephoto.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-hellebores-blooming-in-garden.html