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Mud Daubers, friend or foe?
Why all the sudden interest in mud daubers? You know how you hear talk about a certain subject and that subject comes up again? It was that way with mud daubers for me. Since I was at the Alabama Soap Meeting on Friday and Saturday, I got another facial from Tammy Doering of Dead Sea Bulk Materials. My new friend Aimee Morhan of Magnolia Soaps that I met at the conference was suggesting that mud daubers would be a cute name for young girls that use facial mud. Being the earthy chick, it sounded like a neat idea to me! Tammy was not so sure about it. That got me to…
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Tansy – Attraction and repellent?
Spring is coming!! This is tansy that grows as a perennial in my yard. (perennial meaning that it will come back every spring season.) The foliage of this plant is very much like a fern and the flowers are yellow, round and small clusters like the picture above. There is good reason why this plant is also called golden buttons. The odor tansy gives off is a bit pungent but it has specific purpose in the garden. Tansy is known to repel the “bad” bugs AND attract the beneficial bugs to your garden or yard. Some of the beneficial bugs this lovely plant will attract are lady bugs, spined soldier bugs, spiders, hover-flies, praying…
