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1. sharkbytes Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

   Those are very healthy bluets. Seems like any I find seem more fragile looking. It’s so hard to get the blue to show much in photos.

   sharkbytes,
   They have always done well in my yard and stand up to the cats pretty well. The blue is tough to catch once fully open and they start to turn whitish. The blazing sun doesn’t help either.

2. cindee Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 2:01 am

   Awesome. Don’t you just love how our pets get in the photo shoot?(-: Jack loves to lay right on top of the flowers or whatever I am trying to take a picture of(-: Sweet little critters they are!!!(-;

   cindee,
   Dang fur bearing kneady little pests. I don’t know how sweet they are and I’m not about to taste one to find out.

3. Ratty Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 7:04 am

   I like having wildflowers all through a lawn. Most people around here complain about them.

   Careful with pampering your actors with tuna, they’ll become pampered and uncooperative. Oh, wait a minute. I forgot I’m talking about cats. That’s what they’re supposed to do.

   Ratty,
   I need to have the yard registered as a wildlife refuge. Maybe that will stop the Mad Mower.

   I figure a shared can of tuna is cheap for the services provided. Who else would love me because I gave them some fish.

4. Randy Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 7:14 am

   Pussytoes, did you know that the American Lady larva uses them for a host plant? Cure post, thanks for sharing.

   Randy,
   No I did not. I haven’t shot one yet so I haven’t done any research. I did a bit now and can’t wait to find her sister – the Painted Lady

   Butterfly that is.

5. Heather Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 8:38 am

   Good Morning WiseAcre- I have never seen the pussytoes before. Very interesting plant. Fun that your buddies like to follow you on your photo engagements.

   Good Afternoon Heather,
   Borrow a cat and take a look at the feet.
   They want to go on my walks in the woods and I have to chase them away. Being cats they get easily distracted and left behind. So I tolerate them as they pester me and my camera in the yard.

6. rainfield Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 9:54 am

   Never try to train your cats to appreciate flowers, this is not their cup of “tuna”.

   rainfield,
   For a cup of tuna I could get them to jump through flaming hoops. But you’re right, I’d never train them to appreciate flowers like I do.

7. Grammy Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

   I love you are adding your kitty stars to the photos. They can be such fun. Looks like we are in for more rain. I will never get my garden planted it seems. I put together some pallets today to form a megshift green house to protect them for now. I started a garden journal blog for the veggie garden. I hope to beat the rain out of drowning my garden this year. We old had 5 tomatoes last year.

   Grammy,
   They should show up more often once the gardens get going. At least one is always underfoot when I’m out in the yard.

   Do some cherry tomatoes in a container. You can always move them out of the rain if it looks like ark building time.

8. Monica Says:
   April 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

   Love the pussy toes, and Stinky’s “owly ears” in the first shot. I keep track of plants that cats like–do your other cats like bluet as much as Stinky, too? Also love the pussy toes; have not seen them (or bluets) here, even though they’re both native in my zone (?!). P.S. Humans do spend an inordinate amount of time on non-tuna-related activities!

   Monica,
   The cats show no interest in either. All they wanted was to get in the way.
   P.S. – I keep telling them that and they just look at me as if I was crazy.

9. Giddy Says:
   May 12th, 2009 at 8:02 am

   Your Stinky looks like he has a wee bit of Maine Coon in his heritage with those furry ears.

   The bluets are so beautiful this time of year. They are just now popping up all over here on the coast.

   Giddy,
   Who knows what’s in Stinky besides mischief? He’s the son of a feral cat we adopted – his mom is just a skinny little black cat.

   Bluets are now in full swing here. My lawn now has a white haze in a number of spots. The mad mower is complaining because I won’t let her mow them down till after they and the Pussytoes go to seed.

10. miss m Says:
    May 16th, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Hard to say which I like most; the fabulous info or fantastic sense of humour ? In any case, I thoroughly enjoy both !

    Great stuff !

    miss m,
    I’d hazard to guess you’d like the Bluets better if you saw them in person. It would be a different story I’m afraid if you actually met me.

11. m n Says:
    September 25th, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    what are the uses for pussytoes? please help for a school project.

    m n,
    There are a few herbal folk remedies for Plantain Leaved Pussytoes. (Antennaria plantaginifolia)
    1 – Boiled in milk to treat diarrhea and dysentery
    2 – Tea was used for lung ailments
    3 – Leaves poulticed on bruises, sprains, boils and swellings
    4 – one of many snakebite remedies

    Wildlife: Winter deer browse

    There are gardeners that grow the plant because it is a native wildflower. Seed is available for sale by some nurseries that specialize in wildflowers.

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    June 28th, 2012 at 6:13 am

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