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RDG Bird feeders, Bird houses, and Binocs

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Spring in New England this year has seen a series of wild temperature swings. Easter weekend saw temperature topping 85º during the day and dropping down to the [...]

RDG Spring Prep 2017

March 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

This has been a crazy Winter here in New England. We got a lot of rain, a few snow storms, and some single digit nights followed by 50º plus days. On the last weekend [...]

RDG Spring 2016 Summary

July 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Winter of 2015 and the Spring of 2016 was definitely not typical. After a colossal amount of snow in the previous winter, this past winter was NOTHING! There were a few [...]

RDG Summer 2015 Summary

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

After a very rough Winter, New England was treated to a beautiful and relatively comfortable Summer. We had a few 90º+ days, but even those were kind of enjoyable after [...]

RDG Spring 2015 Summary

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

We had a cold, hard Winter and were all eager to see the arrival of Spring. After being buried in more than three feet of snow for more than two months, it was really nice [...]

Glow-In-The-Dark Mushrooms

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

A reader dropped us a note after reading our article on fluorescence rocks and suggested we check out the bioluminescence offerings at GlowMushroom.com. It turned out to [...]

Essex Plant Supports

May 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

We have been propagating peonies to various parts of the RainyDayGarden the last several years. The new plantings have taken root and we have had some nice big blooms. As [...]

Apple Watch: iPhone Camera Integration

May 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

We knew that Apple Watch could display what the iPhone sees and that we could use it to trigger the iPhone camera, but we hadn’t played with that combo until last [...]

Starting seeds collected from pods

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A few years ago we began collecting pods out of the flowers in the RainyDayGarden in the hope that some of them would germinate. The experiment was fairly successful, [...]
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