The wood is old heart pine, reclaimed from the wreckage of an ancient collapsed Cracker house on her property.
I like building birdhouses for my food forest, but hers take the cake. Connie’s display at the 326 Community Market always has a selection of lovely plants, herbs and homemade birdhouses. She’s there almost every Thursday… just ask for The Potter’s Bench booth.
Meanwhile, in the peach next to the one in which my new birdhouse sways… I’m grafting Sunraycer nectarine scions onto some recently pruned branches:
I think they’re going to take.
I’m considering ordering some root stock and producing grafted fruit trees from scratch in the nursery. Some really good varieties of fruit, such as the Sunraycer nectarine mentioned above, are patent-free and open for nurseries to propagate.
And of course, any trees I grow from seed with good fruit I can name and propagate all I like.
Ah… the potential!
6 responses to “Birdhouses and nectarine grafts”
I'm going the opposite direction. I have netted my peach trees to keep the birds out.
Sometimes you have to. The birds haven't ever attacked our peaches. The squirrels, on the other hand…
I love how simple and inviting the bird house is. Often times, I think that birds may not actually care about different colors and features of this bird house or that one and so forth. This bird house has natural colors that a bird would be used to seeing.
http://www.mimistreasurechest.com/dept-30060
I love how simple and inviting the bird house is. Often times, I think that birds may not actually care about different colors and features of this bird house or that one and so forth. This bird house has natural colors that a bird would be used to seeing.
http://www.mimistreasurechest.com/dept-30060
I have several larger birdhouses from The Potter’s Bench, if only I get Hubs to get them up for me, maybe my Grandson would stop using them to store his building blocks!!
Ha!