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Saturday when resting from her tree work,  Jenny joined me at the Wall Garden while i was giving water.  She was lost in thought and i talked to self outloud sometimes.  At one point,   speaking out to BEEs…..asking them where they are,  telling them the crookneck squash need pollination,  asking why they were not coming for that,  that the squash begins to take form but then withers from lack of pollination….

Next day  she brought these.  Said she'd looked around at all the possibilities,   Home Depot,  and these Crepe Myrtle had the most bees.   When i went down to water this morning,   They'd come.       I've set them next to John Robert Lewis.

 

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20 responses to “speak …. be heard”

  1. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    I love crepe myrtle ,,, I thought they didn’t grow here but they get huge. Just like Illinois. These will be beautiful. Jennie listens..

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) love that the bees just needed a little encouragement!

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  3. Michelle Slater Avatar

    the Bee whisperer-“In Southern California, the crape myrtle is the official city tree of West Covina. The crape myrtle grows at a moderate rate to 30 to 40 feet high with a 25-foot spread and lives from 50 to 150 years. Handsome peeling bark highlights its multi-trunk or single-trunk tree”-but, who or what is ‘John Robert Lewis. I must have missed something.

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  4. Nana Avatar
    Nana

    We have these trees in the yard at work. They are beautiful, but the seed pods and flowers are just way to tempting to babies. They eat everything!

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  5. Nana Avatar
    Nana

    How did my name get change Do? Mmmm…

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  6. Nanette Avatar

    Michelle….a grapefruit tree, 3 or so posts back. 🤗

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  7. jude Avatar

    mom loved them. I should plant them here.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I love your stories so so much … and not unlike the love between you and Jennie your Myrtle will grow and return the love and caring in all ways Always!

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  9. Deb Avatar

    My town, Lawrenceville, GA is called Crape Myrtle City and they are Everywhere! In the compass point grove up by the mailbox, the four Sisters are just starting to bloom, the white coming in first. The others never flower as well or extravagantly as Lady Snow. She steal resources, I’m sure.
    Can you hand pollinate the squash with a feather or are there male and female plants?

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  10. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    If they tell me when the “old” seeds are in the garage area this year- I will get you packets of borage seeds.
    The flowers and leaves are edible (cucumber taste) and the blue flowers are beloved by BEES. But still no female flowers- tons of bees.

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  11. Acey Avatar

    love that there are a pair of them.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    today, they called the Bee s

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are down at the Button Bush…i would have thought they would come UP, but not so much. So much to learn.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are everywhere in Oroville

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    for Edna.
    we will call these the For Edna trees

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tina…your Heart

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    i can…hand pollinate, but i don’t want to

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Borage is growing well at B garden….will reseed its self, but thank you for the thought

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s interesting, isn’t it. That she chose to buy two.

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