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Apr 3, 2022 7:59 AM CST
Name: UrbanWild
Kentucky (Zone 6b)
Kentucky - Plant Hardiness Zone 7a
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This one I made at the same time as the one above. I thrifted the structure for $13. Made a few modifications, cut the plates, did repairs, and painted a bit. It looks like whoever had it prior to me did the mosaic work. I believe this because they never removed the store price tags from the back and just painted over them. Anyway, while making the plates for this one I learned making the galleries is best done WITH the grain rather than AGAINST the grain. The amount of fragmentation working against the grain was disheartening and created a lot more work and waste. Lesson learned.

It is also located back under the porch near the last two.

Another reason I wanted the one with the drawer is that I wanted to experiment with it as a place to put cleaned cocoons and have it function as the emergence box. So I drilled two holes in the bottom corners of the drawer to function as the emergence holes. The fact that it's a drawer I hope means it makes it easy to service.

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Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.

"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE
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