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cristina's Wildlife garden

Garden Type: Wildlife | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Clay | Organic

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Few people live in the small rural hamlet where we moved in summer 2006 (11 inhabitants, my husband and me included) and, I admit it, I miss sometimes the urban environment, so rich in ideas and different people and experiences.
Few human beings, but a lot of wildlife. It’s rather difficult to see (and, furthermore, to photograph) many animals visiting the garden: some have nocturnal habits, some others are shy or so quick in disappearing; but I see the hints they leave.
There are wild boars (a lot), hares and fawns (I’ve taken some blurred pictures of them last winter). There is a buzzard often rotating over the meadow. I’m scared of snakes and adders it happens to meet sheltered among the stonewalls and the grass (bad encounters).
There are a lot of insects, from spiders and scorpions to butterflies and fireflies, and birds (many blue tits and jays).
Horses and cows, in this area farmed in a semi-wild way, sometimes arrive, escaping from the wire gates separating the pastures from the village: they make small disasters, eating vegetables and flowers.
I’m now acquainted with the dormice and some squirrels running on the walnut trees and eating nuts. The first nights I slept here I was so concerned about their noisy runs on the tiles of the roof!

An outdoor organic garden located in Bedonia, Italy, cristina's Wildlife garden currently contains 56 plants.

This is a Wildlife garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 7. It has mainly Clay soil and receives Partial Sun light.
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  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    What a nice “critter” garden you have there!! Critter is one of the slang terms that southerners in the states use to describe animals and bugs. :) I am originally from Florida. My grandfather was called away from Bell Aircraft back in the beginning days of NASA to head up the rocketry devision. That is how I ended up being born there, otherwise I would most likely have been born in one of the Italian capitals of the US, New York. :)

    Posted on 02 Sep 09 (over 3 years ago)

  • cristina

    cristina wrote:

    Thank for your kind comment about the critters here around. I’d like to take a picture of dormice, but they are always so quickly moving…Wow, rockets and NASA! This is one of my favorite subjects, and I think this year I will propose it to my 8th grade students. Last frontiers and space are so intriguing matters…

    Posted on 05 Sep 09 (over 3 years ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    I did not see your last post. Sorry. :) Yep. He told all sort of stories about the early days. Rockets turning and heading down the beach instead of up, techs and engineers playing pranks on one another…etc. I will see if I can get a link to the site where they interviewed grandpa. It was a year or two ago, and there is a pic of him as a young man, and then a pic of him now standing in the same spot and pose. Updates to come…

    Posted on 11 Sep 09 (over 3 years ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    http://www.robsv.com/cape/c18_jt.html This is the before and after of my grandpa at the launch pad.

    Posted on 11 Sep 09 (over 3 years ago)

  • seajda

    seajda wrote:

    Your pictures are amazing! Those beautiful meadows…everyone wants to create, but you have growing naturally! What a paradise!

    Posted on 16 Feb 10 (over 3 years ago)

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cristina

cristina

Bedonia

Italy

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