The Laramie County Master Gardeners’ Garden Walk is back. The theme is “Habitat Hero” gardens. It’s scheduled for July 11, 1-4 p.m. It’s free,…
High overhead in July, you’ll find the constellation Hercules. The four stars making up the top of Hercules is known as the Keystone and if yo…
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June 20 brings us the summer solstice, so warmer weather has hopefully arrived in Wyoming.
We had to buy new grow lights because we had so many tomato seedlings this spring. If you arrive at the Laramie County Master Gardener Plant S…
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April evening skies have the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga all found in the western sky.
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By early November, our winter feeder birds are back.
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“…a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” – William Shakespeare
High overhead, in July, you’ll find the constellation Hercules. The four stars making up the top of Hercules is known as the Keystone, and if …
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I am living under the flight path of major construction. A Swainson’s hawk is plucking cottonwood branches from one neighbor’s tree and taking…
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