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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, May 18, 2017

There have been a lot of changes going on.

The last few weeks I have made a lot of changes to the yard. I have added a lot of new plants and finally put up a shed. I have a lot of Iris on the church hillside of all different colors and a lot of peonies that are not in the habitat area. I get to enjoy them and the people from the church get to enjoy then also. I also have my bog area started and the pond is looking great.

I added a picnic table but stained it pecan instead of the traditional red wood stain. 
 My bog has a small spillway into the upper pond and the water is looking clearer than it ever has.
 My yard is very small but as you can see it is packed and planed out .
 Rhododendron that used to be in my yard now on the hillside between my place and the church.
Variegated Weigela  
 A rose bush that will be getting moved as soon as it is done blooming.
 Knock out rose in front of porch.
Blue and cream colored Iris at the front of my yard in front of my wildlife habitat sign. 
Orange and white Iris. 
 Yellow flag Iris 
 Yellow bearded iris
Yellow Flag Iris 
These red roses came up in my front yard a couple years after I bought the place and I have divided them several times since then. I also have some pink ones that also came up around the same time but they have not started to bloom yet.
Same red rose.
Variegated Weigela
A re blooming White iris.
Columbine.
White columbine.
Rainbow knock out rose
Rose
Rose
My Hillside of Iris
Peony.
Iris and peonies.
Iris and peonies.
Japanese Iris
I moved the crab apple tree and snow in summer to make room for my new shed.
Iris.
Iris
Iris
Iris
Red rose
Peony
Iris
Single white rose. This one just came up on its own as a weed.
Ox eye daisy and Sweet William.
Dames rocket and Painted daisy
Rose
Ox eye daisy
Rose.
Peony
Hillside.
Iris
Rhododendron.
This is where the shed will go.
This tree stump and zebra grass are going to be removed.
Iris.
Iris.
Iris
Iris.
Iris.
Iris.
White iris.
White Iris
Azalea, Lupine and Yarrow.
forget me not.
Forget me not
Fire Spinner Ice Plant
Pond area.
I did not know where to put this Arbor so It is just sitting here for now till I figure out what to do with it.
Lower pond and water fall.
Jurassic Park Iris.
White columbine.
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park
Columbine
Heuchera.
Orchid
Orchid
Iris
Iris
Front yard sign for wildlife habitat area.
Painted daisy and Dames Rocket
Roses
Knock out roses.
Stone and sand pad for new shed.
Space between my house and the neighbor. This is a part sun part shade area.
Pond area.
Pond
Jurassic Park Iris
Iris
Wildlife habitat sign
Sweet William
Painted daisy
Dutch Iris
Dutch Iris
Painted daisy and Dames rocket.
Rainbow knockout rose.
Rose.
Rose
Iris
Peony
Iris
Hillside.
Variegated Weigela.
Rhododendron.
Moved this tree a few weeks ago and it is still looking good.
Coreopsis.
Lenten rose.
Blue wind flowers starting to sprout.
Lenten rose
A small piece of Weigela that broke off and I stuck in the ground to try to root. That was about a month and a half so it might be working.
Old stump from a dead Yew that needed moved for the shed. I am using it in my wildlife habitat to try and attract amphibians.
Orange and peach colored Iris
Light pink Columbine 
White colunbine.
Dark red iris.
Orange iris
White Columbine.
Jurassic Park Iris
Jurassic Park Iris
Iris
Iris
Columbine
Carolina sweet shrub
Lupine.
Back of pond area
Pond Iris
Coral bell
Chives
Clematis.
Clematis
Clematis
Violet Freckles
Violet Freckles
Bog area
Peach and orange iris
Dark red iris
Iris
Jurassic Park
Evening Primrose.
Primrose
Front border.
Front border
Front border.
I had to move my trumpet vines for the shed so they are sitting in my pond till I get them transplanted.
Rose
New Shed
Shed
Rose 
Primrose,

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