Gilsland Farm, Maine Audubon – Falmouth, ME
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Garden Notes
I finished up the last of the neatening I needed to do in the garden this morning – nothing particularly photogenic – like fixing a broken trellis. I also brought all the houseplants out for the summer. We got some gnats over the winter (I think they came in when I repotted a
Spinners – Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen
Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. This is a really interesting take on the Rumplestiltskin tale – it begins with a young man trying to win the right to wed his sweetheart, when the father would rather she marry the miller. So he promises to spin her a wedding dress
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Garden Notes
I have one solitary iris (though you can see behind this one that the Siberian iris are poised to go crazy any second now), so it’s officially time to plant. The above is the before shot, when I headed out at about 8:30 this morning- well before the heat of the day (it was about
Weekly Wildflowers – Donnell Pond, Franklin, ME
I was so excited to see the white version of the Lady Slippers this weekend- they’re clearly still Cypripedium acaule, but with slight color variations – I’d never seen that pale pink to white before.
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Garden Notes
Last weekend, we did some much needed deep cleaning, so I’m fairly late posting these pictures. Because we were going away this weekend, I went ahead and bought tomatoes a week early, and because the forecast looked good, just went ahead and planted them that day, with the Swiss Chard and kale. The