Fireflies!

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Ok, so I realize that fireflies aren't plants.  But I still think they're darn cool, so I'm mentioning them. :P  Tonight is the first night that I've noticed them this year.  Last year we had flocks of them flittering around our backyard.  Tonight, we only noticed one every 2-3 minutes.  Hopefully their friends will show up soon, and our backyard will look like a shimmering constellation.

My theory for why we have so many fireflies is that we don't use any kind of pesticides and our property is next to the undeveloped banks of a municipal drainage canal.  There are lots of trees, shrubs, and grasses for critters to live in.

In actual plant news, the Nikko Blue hydrangea looks absolutely stunning in the fading light of sunset.  I wish I had a tripod for my camera so that I could take a non-blurry picture of it.

The beans suddenly realized that they could climb up the bamboo poles that are next to them.  I'm pretty amazed - I was expecting to "train" them onto the bamboo poles, but they didn't need my help at all.

We have itty bitty sqashes.  I guess we'll be able to pick them in about a week. 

We really need to pick the mustard before the scortching heat of summer starts up in earnest.

Oh - and the second set of carrots came up.  No luck with the onions again. *sigh*

And now I'm going to go see what the fireflies are up to.  ^_^

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