Garden on the Edge

This blog is about gardening and nature, two subjects that are inherently intertwined. I live outside of Boston (on the edge of an urban area) and near the ocean (on the edge of the land) and my property abuts a city owned natural area (on the edge of nature) what better name? Zone: 6A

Friday, January 1, 2016

Tiny Tank Challenge

One of my Tweeps recently posted a Tiny Tank Challenge. The idea was that participants would spend less than $100 and set up a tank that wo...

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Elephants, elephants and more elephants

While elephants are in serious decline as a species some African parks have a different kind of trouble - over population. In Majete the el...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Africa part 1

It's been a long time since I posted. Part of the reason was that I spent nearly a month out of the country. I went on another Earthwat...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Finding My Focus

My new super Macro lens takes great close up pictures that have a shallow "depth of field" (ie, the part of the picture that'...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Wordless Wednesday

A small sampling of what can be found in my garden right now. Centaurea montana Black Sprite Digitalis too-lazy-to-go-check-...

Friday, June 5, 2015

Close Up Friday

I'm still playing learning to use my new Macro lens so there's no "theme" to today's images except - NEW MACRO LENS W...

Monday, June 1, 2015

Favorite NEW Plant in the Garden This Week

One of my favorite new plants in the garden are the Icelandic Poppies ( Papaver nudicaula ). I noticed these from several isles away at...

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