I got not one, but two amaryllis for Christmas (one from my Dad, one from my aunt). Interestingly, they’re clearly both from the same supplier (they’re in fact the same variety), but have wildly different box designs. Anyway, I was very excited to get these, as I’m getting to the point of missing my currently […]
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I raked 15 bags of leaves this weekend, 13 of which I had to wrangle on a rather blustery Saturday morning. Fortunately, my backyard is rather sheltered, so I only had to work around the worst of the gusts, but I definitely have some issues with Mother Nature deciding it would be fun to have
Well, it’s starting to happen. I could see my breath this morning when I was on my way out the door on the way to work. Which immediately put me in mind of the two plants I have in the backyard that I want to bring in for the winter. We definitely haven’t had any
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Is there anything more beautiful then fresh tomatoes from the garden? Especially when they’re heirloom tomatoes, and therefore come in so many pretty colors? As you can see, the cherry tomatoes in my father’s garden have been going crazy. It’s nice to know that even though I don’t have the room/proper light for vegetables, I
I divided out one of the clivias today, and got three rather good-sized babies out of the deal. It’s funny, because I remember them fitting into smaller pots the last time I divided them, so I must have done it at an earlier growth stage. Since I had the benefit of some plant largess from
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I enjoy one of the city maintained parks close to me, near USM. In the Spring, they put in tons of tulips which look absolutely lovely. Once those go by, they pull them out and replace most of the beds with annuals, but the central bed is planted every year with cannas. It’s fun to
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Garden geek alert again. I visited my mother’s (and her garden) today, and she actually had a parasitized horn worm caterpillar. You know you’re a total geek when this is the most fascinating event of the evening.
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I have just returned from heaven. We had a work outing today in Standish. As we were hanging out after gorging ourselves, one of my coworkers mentioned that we’d passed a great small nursery she’d been to last year that has a really good perennial sale in late summer, and she noticed the sale was
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Well, the heat’s finally broken, so I went out and did some cleanup in the garden this morning. It occurs to me I haven’t really posted anything about my garden yet, so here goes. I rent, but my landlord is perfectly happy to let me putter about in the beds that were left here when
Had a great week for flower photos. This is probably the best time of year for flowers. Now, if only I could get enough room to grown these kind of things on my own property…
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