While out dousing my container grown plants one morning I spotted some garden visitors that had originally showed themselves last year.
Some readers may remember my puzzlement as to why so many Pacific tree frogs had taken up residence in my backyard garden. I never really figured that one out and pretty much chalked it up to the very wet spring we had that year.
Last week was the first time I have seen these little guys this year. I was actually pretty excited to spot them and gathered all my kids to show them off. We huddled on the deck staring at them before I ran and got the camera. They didn’t seem to like being photographed and hopped into the massive comfrey to hide.
They obviously like my choice of using old coffee cans as pots for some of the mints I grow because that is where I would find them hiding out every morning last week. I would water a coffee can of mint and up would hop a little tree frog and perch on the edge of the can. They would sit there and stare at me for a little while as though saying, “Excuse me, but do you mind not flooding us?!”
Seeing those cute little frogs every morning made going out to water over, and over, and over not quite so bad.
Sorry if I have disappeared from the blog world this past week. I did not count on the heat zapping my energy and desire to do anything. As Karen from Greenwalks put it, it was far too hot to blog last week. I hope to get back up with everyone’s blog (as well as my own!) sometime this week. Now, come on cooler weather! We’re waiting on you!
Using coffee containers as flower pots is a very French way! Frogs found a very cool refuge! Yesterday, I was watering my containers and two baby squarrels got out from one of them. I didn’t check the pictures yet. Hope, there is at least one good pic. You stay cool!
Oh Cynthia, those are the cutest frog pics I think I have ever seen! The patina-ed cans and the mint make an amazing backdrop, plus everything looks better (to me, at least, right now, especially!) when it’s wet. They are darling! I have never seen one in my garden, must not be good habitat for them, too dry or not enough of the right kind of trees. Thanks for the link and fingers crossed we will be done with this silly weather in the next couple of days! We are already at least a little bit cooler at the moment, hope you are too.
They are so cute!
At another home I lived in, we had a hoard of tree frogs come and set up house in our yard several years in a row. Tree frogs are the cutest little things, I didn’t mind a bit, except…
when they also moved into the pool! LOL We could not start the pool up for fear of the chlorine killing them as tadpoles, so we had to wait til they grew up.
~Faith
Your containers are an oasis for them. I bet they are equally eager to see you each day.
Hi Cynthia~~ I haven’t been blogging either. The heat has been terrible. I’ve been a perpetual sweat machine. 85 today, which I suppose is a relief but still on the warm side.
Do you have a pond? My pond plays nursery to hundreds of frog eggs, then tadpoles. Once the frogs leave the pond, they like to stick around so I’m always seeing them. They’re adorable.
I like your rusty cans/planters. I LOVE rust. Here’s to a day with highs in the low 70s….please!!
While much of the country is baking, we are cooler than normal this year. I don’t mind, but it’s dry too, so I’m still dragging the hose around almost every day. I guess I should be grateful for the cooler weather. If it was really hot and dry too, I’d really be in trouble! Those frogs are adorable! We had frogs when we first moved in, and the neighborhood was mostly empty, but they moved out when the homes started crowding them. I’d like them around again!
Hope that cooler air finds you soon! Been cooler here in Wyoming.
What cute frogs!
I’m so thrilled these days at having several little froggies calling my garden home! It’s so delightful. We tossed one in the wading pool with the boys this weekend. Lots of fun there!
We had a huge tadpole crop in our little garden pond and now more frogs than I’ve ever seen. I wondered if they are hanging out in the pond because of the dry year. Usually, I think the few we’ve had move out by now. I go out and look for them every day. So cute. We hope to do some pond repair if they ever do move out! Love your photos!
Paula
We had a symphony of frogs in the spring, but they refuse to show themselves. Thanks for the photos…I will picture them in my mind’s eye next spring, when we are again serenaded (as the froggies go a-courtin’).
Your frogs made me smile. Too cute.