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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.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Yesterday I started cutting down all the grape vine along the back fence. When I first bought the house There was a ton of vine on the fence but it did not grow any grapes so the following year I got rid of it and planted 2 grape vines. one was a concord and the other a Thompson red. They grew the entire length of the fence in no time and I cut them way back every year. I never do anything with the grapes and the birds do not eat them so I have decided to replace them. I have a bunch of trumpet vine already planted along the fence and I want to let it take over the fence. It should really draw in the hummingbirds. I do not use humming bird feeders but my plants bring humming birds. I might even get a few other colors of trumpet vine. Right now I have the typical orange color of trumpet. I was thinking of getting some yellow or dark red.

Madame Galen Trumpet Vine.
Fence before removing grape vine.
 Half of the grape vine has been removed.
The other half will get removed today or tomorrow.
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