{Our Spiraea japonica 'Gold Mound' (Japanese Spirea)}

• On May 21 our Spiraea japonica 'Gold Mound' (Japanese Spirea) was showing its pink blooms and I took pictures of it. 
• The serrated leaves are a striking yellow-green color that makes it already a gorgeous shrub in itself.
• Our two shrubs are blooming each a little bit at a different stage, probably it makes a difference in which spot they are planted. 
• Hope you enjoy their blooms and even their flower heads in an already advanced stage. Let's start the Garden Tour.

• The Spiraea japonica is very attractive to butterflies.

{HOW TO EXPORT YOUR BLOG - TO SAVE IT!}

After having been away for one night to Atlanta, I discovered several problems with Blogger today. My followers have disappeared from the side-bar and as I learned; I'm NOT the only one. Also my Recent Comments don't show on the side-bar.

My Dashboard does list the amount of Followers but none show up when I click it. Neither on the side-bar.

If you go to that link, you might be able to add your issue to the long list, you might have to click the last page for being able to post there. 

Also I learned that some bloggers couldn't get into their own blog and others lost it ALL. See below how to EXPORT your blog to save it! To the end I will  also show the New Blogger Interface.

Another problem is that in several blogs I cannot get into for leaving a comment. It lets you log in over and over again and your comment is being headed as anonymous... Strange things.

For one thing I worried most; loosing all the posts with valuable information. I had read advice as how to EXPORT your blog in order to save it onto your hard drive or external hard drive in the form of an XTML file.

Here are some screenshots of the process and I advice you to do the same as I did before posting this tonight. Hope Blogger will soon act on the other issues as well. 

The first screenshot with plain text is taken from Debbiedoos Blogging and Blabbing.

As promised, here below I will show you the steps of How To on the New Blogger Interface:
Go to Settings and at the very bottom click on Other

Import blog - Export blog - Delete blog

Click on Export blog, than on Download Blog

Now click on the drop down window, next to save

Select Save as

This is how it will look like after being saved.

{Our Buddleja Davidii- Butterfly Bush}

• In our wood garden we do have a variety of Buddleja davidii, or Butterfly bush. 
• Sometimes also called summer lilac. Buddleja davidii, the butterfly bush, is native to northwestern China and Japan.
• As our garden is providing food and shelter for wildlife, these different types of butterfly bushes are a haven for butterflies and hummingbirds. During a Garden Tour you would get to see lots of butterflies.
• Just showing you this one photo with a Gulf Fritilary - Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) butterfly visiting.

Related links:

Gulf Fritilary - Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) 

• On April 10, I did write about our {Our Backyard Wildlife HABITAT Certificate from August 1997}.