Archive for the 'Gardening' Category

24
Apr

Good Oak Landscaping

Are you looking for landscaping with native plants? Little Wet Dog recommends Good Oak LLC for all your gardening and landscaping needs.

Good Oak LLC offers native landscaping and ecological consulting services.  Landscaping with native plants has a lot of great advantages.  First, these plants are adapted to our local growing conditions, so they don’t need watering, fertilizer or pesticide applications.  They require less maintenance, so less time and money is spent on mowing.  Native plants provide habitat and food for wildlife such as birds and beneficial insects such as butterflies and bees.  By landscaping with native plants you can even help fight water pollution, air pollution and global warming!  All this from plants that provide natural beauty and which are unique to our region.

Check out their website for more information: www.goodoakllc.com

19
Apr

Rhubard Yogurt Via Garden

Today as I started my spring garden I noticed a happy new visitor to the family. Gamma Jan’s Rhubarb has successfully lived through the fall transplanting and the cruel winter.

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Just like gamma would have, it fought through the soil and finally peered out strong and happy!

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Thanks Sue and Bill for helping your nephew with the dig up last fall. Though only one of the two roots survived the winter, it’s plenty for us. It’s my way of helping us all always remember gamma, I know she loved that rhubarb. So every time I make my rhubarb yogurt, since US stores do not sell it because it must be a UK thing, I will think of her.

Cheers!

06
Apr

Spring Gangsters of 2008 the story of my flower garden friends

This is the first on the photography series called Spring Gangsters of 2008! In this segment of the chronicles of the Little Wet Dog I will follow the life cycle of her garden flowers through their happy days of growth and their struggles to survive.

THE BEGINNING:
Spring has finally the northern suburbs of Chicago Illinois! We northerners have long waited for the snow to melt and the baby green sprouts to show their pretty faces through the brown-grey cracks of dirt beyond our doors. You don’t believe me? Well dear friends please have a view below of the breathtaking images captured just in the Little Wet Dogs’ backyard.

 CLICK ON ANY IMAGE BELOW FOR A LARGE SIZE.

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

Baby Frankie the Tumultuous Tulip – “I am a big boy” shows us Baby Frankie the Tulip as he makes his first appearance on earth. Son of Big Boy Frankie the Tulip, Baby Frankie resembles his father in perseverance and strength. Notice his full figure? He is goes to be a fat little man, but we will love him none the less. I am willing to bet he will be the first to bloom and have the strong red vibrant color in the entire neighborhood. Any votes on if he will be stripped like his father?

i am a big boy 

Valerina the virgin - “A ways to go until I am grown” and “Breaking out” shows a beautiful purple flower coming through the dirt into the spring. She doesn’t wait for any man to help her. She lifts herself up and grows up into a big girl! Will she grow up to stand taller than the boys or will her shadow cast darkness on the others?

Breaking out

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Jose, Juziu, and John – “The three amigos” tells the story of three friends growing up in the suburbs of Chicagoland! These Chicagoans play together, live together, and go to school together. Will their friendship withstand the battles of life? Who will become the strongest of the trio? This trinity of grace and beauty will need to rely on each other for food, water, and protection to survive the forthcoming early spring frosts.

the three amigos


Yakavetta and Alphonse – “I will always love you” depicts the never-ending love story of two flowers trying to grow up and start a family. Alphonse struggles to make ends meet while Yakavetta tends to the bed. They have only a limited time in which they most product an offspring to carry on their genetic code. Get to getting it on!

i will always love you

  

Bugsy the Bedder, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Charles “Lucky” Luciano star in the hit photo “Run For It Bugsy”. Not much needs to be said about these three clowns. You will have to return next week for their story or else Bugsy may just need to pop a cap in your bum. Word!

run for it bugsy

Please return next week for the next chapter of “Spring Gangsters of 2008”Details of the Canon 0mm lens lens with F1.4 aperture:
• Focal Length & Maximum Aperture - 50mm
• Diagonal Angle of View - 46°
• Closest Focusing Distance - 0.45m / 1.5 ft.
• Filter Size - 58mm
• Weight -  290g




 

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