Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Purple Flowering Raspberry
Purple Flower Raspberry Rubus odoratus Other names: Thimbleberry, Flowering Raspberry, Virginia Raspberry Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family) Range: Eastern US and Canada Native: Native Native Habitat: Wooded areas Bloom Time: June through August Notes: The fruit is edible, but is drier and more crumbly than other raspberries and blackberries, so this plant is generally grown in
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Garden Notes
I added the second tier of tomato cages today – probably should have done that a couple of weeks ago. I ended up tying several large stems to various places outside the cages to keep them corralled. Definitely need to keep track of the timing better for next year. It’s a good thing
Mackworth Island State Park – Falmouth, ME
We took a very cloudy walk at Mackworth this morning. The fairy houses have been migrating out of the village – some of them are very inventive.
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Garden Notes
A few pictures from the community garden over the week – I’ve got at least one small tomato, and the eggplant are blooming. I did take home the larger zucchini in that picture – I knew I wasn’t going to be by for a few more days, and those have a habit of blowing
The Secrets of Wildflowers – Jack Sanders
I picked this book up at the Kancamagus Trail visitor’s center at the start of our Northern New England/Montreal trip. Originally published in 2003, it’s pretty much what I’ve been doing with my wildflower blog – write ups of various flowers he’s run into, but with less pictures than I would have gone with. He
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Beach Rose
Beach Rose Rosa rugosa Other names: rugosa rose, Japanese rose, Ramanas rose, beach tomato or sea tomato; saltspray rose, potato rose, Turkestan rose Family: Rosaceae Range: Native to northeastern China, Japan, Korea and southeastern Siberia. Native: Introduced Native Habitat: The coast, especially sand dunes. Bloom Time: May to July Notes: ‘Rugosa’ means wrinkled. The plant
Knitting Notes
The child sized Skull hat is done. I’m not officially closing out the project yet – this is a bit big for M this year. So I have to have a little think about that. So, in the meantime, I’m moving on to something else. This is my 40th birthday sweater –
The Pilgrim of Hate – Ellis Peters
Here’s a Brother Cadfael book where the murder doesn’t occur in Shrewsbury (which is probably a good thing – all those murders in one town can’t be that good for civic moral). At the same time as the festival of the Translation of Saint Winifred to the monastery, while pilgrims are arriving, the Abbot is
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