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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
I live in the Brighton Heights Neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh PA and recently certified my yard as a wildlife habitat. please feel free to check out my Blog and I hope you enjoy it.When I first bought my property the house was in disrepair and the yard was nothing but dead grass over grown weeds and garbage. It is now a habitat that provides wildlife with the four basic requirements needed to thrive. These are food, clean water, cover from predators, and places to raise young. I have provided these in my small space and will continue to improve on these elements of my garden. I am also an artist and I get a lot of inspiration from my garden. I am fascinated with tiny houses and enjoy cooking and music. I have two adopted cats from a rescue, and I have a one eyed cat that was a stray and needed surgery so I took her in. They are all house cats so they do not tear up my wildlife habitat. They do enjoy sitting in the windows looking at the other animals that visit my yard.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

My Certified Wildlife Habitat in Pittsburgh Old blog


Winter Gardening

With all that went on this summer I did not get the chance to blog much about my wildlife habitat. I have cleaned up the beds and have a lot of plans for the next growing season. I figured that even though this is not part of my wildlife habitat, I would try to blog about my indoor non native house plants. Just because it is winter does not mean I have to stop gardening. During the winter months some of my tropical house plants go dormant or take a rest. I also have plants that start to really show off and are at their peak during these months. Amaryllis, Paper whites, Albuca, Orchids, Peace lilies, and many other winter flowering plants. Right now my Amaryllis are in bloom. They started in mid November and will bloom probably through January or February. I also have Paper whites that I hope will be blooming for Christmas and New Years. I have Several different Orchids sending up flower spikes, and my Albuca is also sending up a new Flower spike. I figure I will discuss these for the next few months and also share anything that happens with my plants outside. Even though we have had several frosts and some snow flakes here in the Pittsburgh area, I still have some plants that are still flowering outside. I have daisies, marigolds, Iris', roses, forget me not's and Mums blooming throughout my yard.


Here are some pictures of my Amaryllis that are blooming right now, and some other photos of what is happening with my indoor gardening.
My bedroom Bay Window area with Amaryllis in Bloom.
Closeup of Amaryllis
New flower spike on corkscrew Albuca.

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