Friday, January 30, 2015

Good Fences

Go to this link to show your good Fri.fences..
http://www.run-a-roundranch.blogspot.com/

My parents had this old fence around their yard for some time, & their neighbor put up a chain link fence for her dogs & asked them to take their fence down. So my husband & I took the fence & put about our veg. garden. Well, I added gourds too to the garden, & after some time this gourd or 2 grew into the fence. It remained there a long time. One year honey bees decided that they were a good place to winter over- note a hole on the clear left side of one. We worried about them overwintering, & our local honey man told us to find someone with hives, take a vacuum cleaner with a clean bag & suck them up & try to release them to a hive. But they really didn`t think that they would survive. We didn`t try, but we were always looking to see what was living in the gourds for some time afterwards.  

8 comments:

TexWisGirl said...

sorry you missed the link up. it opens thursday mornings and runs thru friday afternoon. maybe next week you can link this in? :)

eileeninmd said...

Pretty fence scene, I love the flowers.. Have a happy weekend!

tiptoethruphylsgarden.blogspot.com said...

yes,I will try next week..

JoJo said...

So pretty and picturesque. Making me wish for spring!

TexWisGirl said...

(thanks, phyllis!)

Ida said...

How very interesting that the bees would make a home inside the gourds on the fence.

Rose said...

I love the old fences like this...even if they get run down. Interesting about the bees.

21 Wits said...

This just beautiful. I can't wait for spring to arrive!