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What to Look for and Do at a Country Fair
Explore agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, crafts, entertainment, local cuisine, and more at a country fair. Experience community spirit and tradition!
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Ric Chamblee
During this season, we have a large number of visitors at the Vallarta Botanical Garden from the winter territories of Canada and the United States. In the same way, we receive a large number of feathered traveler, (known as birds!) from those territories, who come in search of food and warmer temperatures. This is the case with our bird of the month for February: the Gray-black Warbler (Setophaga nigrescens).
While in Mexico, it inhabits coniferous and oak forests where it uses its excellent skills to hunt insects and their larvae. This species is characterized by having a yellow dot in front of the eye, which stands out from all its grayscale plumage and has a very particular buzzing song that you can hear here: http://bit.ly/3kPMpP6
If you are lucky, you can find it in our garden this month, and don’t forget our Bird and Nature Festival. Let’s celebrate together the diversity of our resident and migratory birds!
Explore agricultural exhibits, livestock shows, crafts, entertainment, local cuisine, and more at a country fair. Experience community spirit and tradition!
I find the best way to harvest lettuce is to cut it as needed. The lettuce will continue to grow and can be cut at least two more times.
Start your more tender vegetables in your garden now, like cucumbers, squash and pumpkins and start your zucchini as well.
Plant diseases can ruin your day! We help identify plant diseases and take immediate action to stop the spread of the disease.
Saucer Magnolia is probably the best known and most widely planted variety in the Ottawa area, so named for its giant saucers.
Swamp Rose mallow has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. New flowers can open every day from July to September.
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