ookla_the_mok

beautiful

crown vetch, lupine, mallow, fireweed???... USA? I could go either East slope of the rockies (so like Idaho, Montana) or maybe further East say... Michigan..

Very cool - I planted a couple last year and they came up this Spring and are really fascinating.... going to hold off eating then this year and just plant the sets (is that what they are called?) to up the number for next year... the way they grow a whole other plant almost off the top though is really interesting

yes and no - we don't really know what we're doing with this thing (I am reasonably comfortable with terrestrial plants, but not water plants) and so we just randomly got one of those pre-set up baskets that nursery's sell... I guess they do that as well for water plants... Anyway - we realized that we didn't have any other height in the water plants so hopefully that'll work for them. We have sticks and bushes with some bare branches for the adults to perch on (and they do), but that's the only thing we have at the moment for height in the water so hopefully it'll serve for nymphs (if we get them.... which I hope we do...). I didn't want cattails (at least not yet) as they tend to completely take over around here...

Very cool!!! Love salamanders

I'd say you're correct - and that map at the USDA has to be old, because I'm in MN and we absolutely have it here

Toss up between Going Postal and Snuff...

Thanks!

We'll have to see - since we're not trying to make it like 'perfect' (i.e. we're going for the nature pond thing) I think it won't be too bad. We took a bucket of water from a local pond to jump-start things and so we've got a few (native thankfully) snails eating algae, a ton of boatmen, etc. so there's a mini-ecosystem starting. Hopefully it will not require too much in the way of upkeep, but if it does at least it's small...

still learning lemmy - didn't realize it was a picture at a time so here's the tadpole evidence