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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.

Friday, March 30, 2018

2018 Start

I have been getting ready for the new growing season and have plans for a lot of new changes and some additions of some rare native plants to the wildlife habitat. I have gathered seeds from off the internet and through a lot of catalogs. I will be adding orchids to the pond area and will add more native wildflowers and woodland plants to the wildlife habitat. Last year I added spotted newts and bluegills to the ponds and bog, so I am waiting to see if they hung around over the winter. I am also hoping that my lots will flower this year. I started them from seed and this will be the third year that they have been growing. Some new plants on order include Yellow Lady Slipper Orchids, White Egret Orchids, yellow violet, white violet, trillium, jack in the pulpit, and verbascum. Its supposed to snow this weekend but I already have flowers in my yard.

Red Hardy Primrose

Red Hardy Primrose These will flower pretty much all season.

Fritillaria. This will be the first year for this in my wildlife area.

Purple Primrose

Daffodil.

Hyacinth

Crocus

Hyacinth.

Hyacinth.

Cherry Blossoms.

Lilac.

Rhubarb.

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