My Blog List
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Backyard prairie garden in East Austin
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Chris Vincent and Nicolas Webster planted a bursting-with-wildflowers
backyard prairie garden, accented with two small crevice gardens.… Read More
The po...
7 hours ago
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The Garden Awakens
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Anise 'Woodland Red' (*Illicium floridanum*)
A few weeks ago, I thought spring would never arrive, but now the change is
astonishing. The nights are still ...
15 hours ago
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IAVOM ~ Pink Champagne
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It's another Monday and so a fresh vase is now residing on the kitchen
windowsill and will brighten my view when I'm at the kitchen sink. In my
vase t...
1 day ago
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Plant of the Month: Columbine
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Frankly, it’s hard to see or hear the word columbine without remembering
the deadly shooting in Colorado in 1999. Rather, I like to think of
columbine (A...
3 days ago
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Relax and Enjoy
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Hello everyone,
Spring is moving along here as the
garden is already giving us some
pretty blooms.
I will share some photos of it soon
but in the meantim...
3 days ago
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Easy plants for your containers
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[image: This year's pots are newly planted with easy plants for your
containers.]
Last year, I wrote my container garden tutorial, but I neglected to post ...
1 week ago
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2024
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It’s that time of year again—time to begin celebrating what’s going on in
the garden each month. Weather-wise, the overall theme for the last few
weeks has...
1 week ago
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More Gunnera trimming...
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A beautifully cooler night, with Speckles the stray snug in his cat-box on
the verandah, Minimus snug on the cottage bed. Again had my early cup of
tea wit...
1 week ago
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It’s Not Too Late to Experience Cherry Blossom Season
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*[image: Cherry blossoms in bloom.]**Via Unsplash.*
*In Japan, cherry blossoms symbolize the transient nature of life, a
reflection of the Buddhist conce...
1 week ago
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THE DESERT BLOOMS
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When it rains in the desert at just the right time, the desert becomes a
carpet of flowers. These are plants that rely on rainfall to grow, bloom
and set s...
1 week ago
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First Wednesday Challenge: Every Day Needs A Night
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Wildlife are increasingly threatened by artificial light at night.
Southeastern USA from NASA
When I step outside at night I can barely find my favorite ...
2 weeks ago
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My Garden Today
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It’s nearing the end of March and I have visions of a warm sunny spring
with flowers and planting chores to do very soon. We have had dreary wet
weather ...
3 weeks ago
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Snowdrops: Live Radio Interview
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This beautiful yellow snowdrop, ‘Spindlestone Surpise’, will be available
in the 2025 Snowdrop Catalogue—no advance orders please. Our 2024 Snowdrop
Catalo...
4 weeks ago
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Fabric Carrots for Easter Decor
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This year I made fabric carrots and had so much fun with them!
I put them on top of my largest hutch with a few wooden bunnies that my
late uncle made.
I ...
1 month ago
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Happy Valentine's Day
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Good morning Folks ~ here it is another Valentine's Day. Today is a day
that celebrates love in a big way. Let us remember that love can be shown
on any ...
2 months ago
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Moon Pie ?
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Not quite the shape of a moon pie but close ?
January1st, Monday night first one of the new year .
3 months ago
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Farewell to 2023...Sharing a Few Favorite Highlights~
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* ~An Ermine/Stoat in it's Winter white at Sax Zim Bog Minnesota~*
*Happy New Year to those who shall come to visit this blog presentation.*
*I am hopin...
3 months ago
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Merry Christmas 2023
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The weather has been very mild this year, at least so far. We've had some
snow, but as of last week, most of it has melted. A white Christmas was
al...
4 months ago
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New Website & New Blog
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Hi! I'm happy to announce I've launched a new website and with it, a new
blog!
Please head on over to KW Gardens & Flowers to check out my offerings in
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5 months ago
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Summer Woes, 2023 Edition: Goodbye, red oak; hello, full sun
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The red oak in the front yard developed some sort of spreading branch rot
that, unfortunately, necessitated its removal.This is the red oak tree that
lost ...
8 months ago
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Spring Ephemerals
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I have a special place in my heart for spring ephemerals. They are early
harbingers of spring. Perhaps what I love is the surprise: You weren’t
expecting u...
8 months ago
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Spring! A Time For Courtship
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Well, friends, we are going back to the Kaleida Marshes. During springtime
there's so much activity there. Today we focus on the American Coot. These
bir...
10 months ago
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The Art of Beautiful Tables
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I've always been a huge fangirl of everything Victoria publishes ~
magazines and books ~ so perhaps that makes me a biased reviewer? However,
this is the 1...
11 months ago
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May Flowers
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I’m still in the middle of recovering my three acres from privet,
hackberry, trumpet vine, blackberry vine and honeysuckle vine. I was
fighting the trumpet...
11 months ago
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Far Out Flowers 2023
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Exciting news! We are going to be growing cut flowers for the very first
time this year at Terra Growers where they will be available at their self
serve f...
1 year ago
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Revisiting Great Dixter After the Garden Design's Webinar with Fergus
Garrett
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'Succession Planting for a Long Season' was a great webinar with Great
Dixter's Head Gardener! Inspirational, full of information, tips and ideas,
it made ...
1 year ago
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My new You Tube Channel contains eleven video slide presentations of our
various garden collections.
The most recent is #one of two regarding our Orien...
1 year ago
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On the road again .... And now in awesome Odisha, India - at Desia in the
heart of the tribal region
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The weekly market at Kotpad, which takes place on Tuesdays
Odisha is billed as one of India's best-kept secrets, but in reality, it is
one of the nation's...
1 year ago
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The 2022 Tomato Review
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Yes that tomato is 1 lb 5oz!
I know you've been waiting. Those who have read this blog over the years
know I do a tomato review at the end of the seas...
1 year ago
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A Very Red July
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The Northwest corner has featured bold red lilies and roses this month.
Vigorous tetraploid 'Red Velvet' Asiatic lilies continue to multiply by the
y...
1 year ago
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High Summer
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It is high summer in the garden right now. July is the dry month in RI and
the sprinklers are going, the sun is shining and it is a hot 80F at 8:00
AM. Gar...
1 year ago
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Sadly, the Three Dogs in a Garden is on Hold for Now
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*Dearest Reader,*
*Thank you for stopping by my gardening blog. I know I have been quiet for
quite some time. *
*In the last couple of years, this humb...
2 years ago
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A Glut of Cepes
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This exceptionally warm and at times humid September has gifted mushroom
lovers all over the Perigord with a harvest not seen for years.
The restaur...
2 years ago
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How to Plant a Cactus In a Pot
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Have you ever seen the beauty of cactuses showcased in containers? Adding a
cactus to a container helps to set it apart from the rest of the landscape
an...
2 years ago
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Skywatch
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Sunset this evening.
Thanks for stopping by! Click *HERE *to see more sky photos.
2 years ago
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Blooming Plants that Tolerate the Cold and Other Features in My Winter
Garden
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Hellebores may be my all-time favorite winter-blooming plant.Their flowers
persist for months, sometimes beginning as early as December, and frost
barely...
3 years ago
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Calendar for 2021
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Each year I make a calendar for G. to hang in the rooms in the office he
works in. I have found making calendars to be a little harder than I first
expe...
3 years ago
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A Calendar for 2021
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Hello, dear friends and gentle readers. As weird as 2020 has been, the
current garden has benefitted from the near constant tweaking and improving
with all...
3 years ago
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Best Soil for Succulents 2021
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Succulents may look tough to you and undoubtedly, they are but, why do most
people struggle to grow and keep them alive then? The answer is “Soil”.
These s...
3 years ago
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Five Year Update
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Hello again!
I've continued to leave the blog posted for reference. While I'm not
gardening like I did at the gardens featured in my posts, I have a few
f...
3 years ago
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Flower Girl
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My grandaughter from a few years ago. Flowers from the garden. Can you name
them all?
3 years ago
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New Blogger, Old Blogger
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All I can say it is difficult to deal with change. This new Blogger
format is not as user friendly in my opinion. I guess I will get used to it
because...
3 years ago
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Spring in Italy se
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Hello to you all. Some of you have been kind enough to email me asking how
we are surviving in Italy when I know the headlines around the world are
sugges...
4 years ago
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Wideshot Wednesday - 10/16/2019
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[image: sunny garden in october]
4 years ago
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The Monarch: Long-Distance Pupation
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The migration of the monarch butterfly is a well-known natural annual
occurrence in North America. In the fall, hundreds of thousands of monarchs
wing the...
4 years ago
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August Wildflower Wednesday
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It is time for Gail at Clay and Limestone's Wildflower Wednesday. I have
two kinds of native plants to share photos of this time. I am sad that I
am not ...
4 years ago
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Moss Gardening: Lessons Learned from 8 Years of Gardening in the Woods
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It always baffles me when I see numerous products for killing moss lined up
on the nursery shelves. Maybe there are places where moss is so unwelcomed
th...
4 years ago
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Your Complete Guide to our Annual Crape Myrtle Festival
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It’s that time of year again! This July 19th through 22nd, join us for our
Annual Crape Myrtle Festival. This festival is all about celebrating our
loyal...
4 years ago
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Astrantia Star of Billion
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Plant profile Astrantia Star of Billion I guess Astrantia is a common
plant, but I don’t really like the term common, so what they really mean
is, its po...
4 years ago
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12 Tips on How To Use Color Effectively In The Garden
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[image: Color In the Gardene]
There are several elements that make up a well thought out landscape: they
include structure, shape, texture, scent, and movem...
4 years ago
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My Woodsy Garden
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I’m still here y’all! My new-to-me garden is almost 5 years old. Just
popping in here with a quick video to give you a glimpse of how it’s grown.
The view ...
5 years ago
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Spring Teaser
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The weather here in zone 5b is nothing but a tease. Sunny and 50 degree
temps gives us a hop in our step, and has me laying out my gardening tools
ready f...
5 years ago
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10 years of blogging (with big time lapses...)
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I was thinking the other day about this blog. I haven't posted in 4 years,
but I was reminded of how many people I've met through blogging. I mostly
freq...
5 years ago
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Moving announcement! New link to visit!
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[image: https://artofgardening823736298.wordpress.com/]
I have switched formats for this blog—from Blogger to Wordpress. This blog
will stay here for archi...
5 years ago
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May went out June came in with a blaze of color.
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Carrel picked this and brought it in. This is a cluster of small blooms on
my Hydrangea. We had to plant them in the back yard because the front has
to...
5 years ago
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A Visit to the Smithsonian Gardens Greenhouses
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Last year, I had the honor of becoming a docent (a volunteer museum tour
guide) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (which we fondly call SAAM)
in DC. O...
6 years ago
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Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers
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I so look forward to the return of wood warblers to our gardens and fields
and forest! I have a few featured from 2017 on my latest post over on my Garden
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6 years ago
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10 Tips to Keep Your Teeth Strong
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To keep teeth strong, it is necessary to maintain proper oral hygiene.
Besides, it is also necessary to avoid or give up some bad habits. In
addition wit...
6 years ago
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Thank You
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Thank you for visiting my website+blog!
Although I am NOW RETIRED, I hope you will use this site as a resource for
learning about landscape design and gard...
6 years ago
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Native Bee Challenge
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Look for these distinctive and colorful native bee species the next time
you're out in the garden! Long Horned Bee Mason Bee Eastern Bumblebees
Green Sweat...
6 years ago
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6 years ago
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Circular Iron Grate Fountain at Phipps Conservatory
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Ingenious use of a tree pit made into a child-proof fountain.
As a designer who often works for clients with small children, I am a big
fan of this circul...
6 years ago
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TREN LANGSING DIET KETO
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Layaknya tren warna pada gincu atau model fashion yang selalu berubah demi
memenuhi hasrat wanita menjadi cantik, program diet agar langsing juga ikut
ber...
6 years ago
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Our Newest Gardening Adventure: Building a California Garden
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I’m excited to report that two months ago, we moved from our apartment in
the Lodge complex to a house where we have been given carte blanche by the
land...
6 years ago
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Reminder - Follow Me on my NEW SITE!
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Hello dear readers and friends....
This is a note to let you know I am no longer adding content to this site.
We sold our farmhouse a little over a month ag...
7 years ago
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Ospreys Mating
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This has been a busy pair of Osprey. I watched them for an hour and they
mated twice in that time. I myself was in the hospital recently and seem to
have m...
7 years ago
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Pansies, milkweed & daffs, oh my!
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Yes, it's been a while since I've posted. All is well...just very, very
busy. There isn't a lot of time these days to post free stuff, or even to
donate a...
7 years ago
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A clean slate
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I have sat down to write this post a few times and just never seem to get
it right. I have done the usual after Christmas packing away and cleaning.
I ha...
7 years ago
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Good Fences #140 - The Final
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**I am opening the link early to make it easier for U.S. folks to join in
before family Thanksgiving feasts on Thursday**
Home...where the heart is...and t...
7 years ago
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Fifty Shades of Pink: Favourite pink flowering perennials
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Aghast I tell you, aghast. According to scientists, pink doesn’t exist! My
favourite flower colour is apparently nothing but a cunning construct of
our e...
7 years ago
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Summer still hanging on in the garden...
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It's hard to believe that it was 93 degrees here in Austin yesterday. While
I am ready for the crisp edges of autumn, I have to admit that the lasting
beau...
7 years ago
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How to Pickle Green Tomatoes
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Do you love tomatoes and just can't imagine letting any go to waste? If you
have had a productive year growing tomatoes the end of the season can feel
a li...
7 years ago
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Hey, There! It's Been A While...
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You know it's been a while since your last post when you can't remember the
password to get into your blog account.
After nearly 17 years in our home, we ...
7 years ago
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Toronto Gardens has moved!
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A bright new beginning for our blog After nearly ten years on Blogspot,
Toronto Gardens has moved over to our own URL at Wordpress. Please update
your link...
7 years ago
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Wordless Wednesday - My wordless week.
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After work strolls
Sandy snozzes
Cheerful chickens at breakfast
Walking round the work walled garden
Work garden, potager
Stolen phones
50th birthday pavlov...
7 years ago
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Bluebells, blossom and cake…
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The tree I am following this year has burst into a mass of frothy pink
blossom, and I managed to catch the bluebells at Plas Cadnant before they
went ove...
7 years ago
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10 Ways to Purge “Green”
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10 WAYS TO PURGE GREEN Spring is a time to freshen up your home and
office environment. It’s also a time to deep clean and purge the things you
no longer...
8 years ago
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My last blogpost.....here.....
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After 5 years of weekly blogging here on the Blogger platform I will be
moving to my new Wordpress home next week!! As the next five years open up
b...
8 years ago
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The End of Spring Is Nigh ... My Dry Tropics Garden Journal ... Week 48,
2015.
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Date: November 29, 2015 Season: end of Spring, and dry season Our long,
long dry season just keeps rolling on and our region here in north
Queensland ha...
8 years ago
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Late Bloomers
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For many years I gave up the garden after July, seemed like everything had
bloomed within a month's time. I have worked for the past several years to
chang...
8 years ago
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Spring is Whispering!
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Spring has finally arrived at the park, happy day! I took these photos a
few days ago and will head to the park later this evening after our company
party...
9 years ago
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Some Bird Feeder Moments...
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The female Cardinal decided to exit the moment I clicked the shutter but I
thought it looked ok. The Goldfinches are in the middle of their
winter/spring ...
9 years ago
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View from the window
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An intense sunset in February really lifted my spirits when the days were
still relatively short but definitely getting noticeably lighter. Every
window ...
9 years ago
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Hi to all my dearest blogging friends .....
It has been a VERY long time since my last post on this blog!!!
Life has taken me on a round about journey, ...
9 years ago
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Moved to a New Blog!
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Hello to anyone who might stumble across this message! Now that I have got
plants in the ground in our new location in British Columbia, and spring is
in ...
9 years ago
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Moving Sparklers
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Since planting my Leopard Plant (Ligularia tussilaginea 'Aureo-maculata') a
couple of years ago, it has diminished each spring. So I finally decided
to di...
9 years ago
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Ohio Garden of Hosta Acer Trees and November 2014 Snow
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Hard to believe that Nov 17, 2014 has already brought this amount of snow
to Ohio. Looks like it definitely is going to be another year like last
winter ...
9 years ago
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The Scattering of Seeds
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Throughout the growing season, there is a scattering of seeds from all
sorts of plants in the garden. There is a cycle of life that supports a
spreadin...
9 years ago
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The Mosaic Gardens Journal has Moved!
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We are delighted to reboot the journal as part of our redesigned website!
Please visit mosaic-gardens.com to see the site
and mosaic-gardens.com/journal/ ...
9 years ago
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Wordless Wednesday: Regrowing Backbone
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*Dianthus superbus*.
Cow Parsnip, *Heracleum maximum*.
Cow Parsnip, *Heracleum maximum*, as "whisk".
*Stylophorum lasiocarpum.*
*Campanula punctata*.
The wi...
9 years ago
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Bringing Out My Dead (But Maybe They're Not Dead?)
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Ever since I read Kristin Green's "Down to earth - bring out your dead"
post, I've had Monty Python quotes running around in my head... which is
never real...
9 years ago
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HMRC, growing a small business, VAT, Flower farming... the story goes on!
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high summer on my little flower farm
Well, we hit a small milestone in the history of Common Farm Flowers the
other day, a milestone which has a downside...
10 years ago
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Four Years of Blogging
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I started this blog four years ago today.
It has been a rewarding diversion, and it has brought me commenters and
friends from all over the world.
When I...
10 years ago
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Jump-Starting New Beginnings
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It has been my great pleasure to write here for five years, finding the
ways that everything comes together in the garden. From thoughts about
finding pe...
10 years ago
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Zone 3 Flowers: Cone Flowers
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*Botanical name:* *Echinacea*
*Plant type:* Flower
*USDA Hardiness Zones:* 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
*Sun exposure:* Full Sun
*Soil type:* Loamy
*Flower color:* ...
10 years ago
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Mission Accomplished, or Why We Haven't Posted in Awhile
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You may have noticed it's been quite some time since a new post on My
Florida Backyard. This is not because we've fallen into a sudden sinkhole
or been swe...
10 years ago
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Transplanting the Violet Fern
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Moving *forward* through the Winter Solstice to longer days. Looking
*forward* to a winter's rest(?), the spring garden. Planning *forward* for
new garden ...
11 years ago
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Fall in the garden
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those
of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red
leave...
11 years ago
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If you can read this
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Hey, everyone. If you are reading this particular post from a Feed or
Reader, you've been missing out on some Great Stems posts. I moved my blog
away from ...
11 years ago
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What is a Weed?
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Do you ever meditate as you walk around your garden? I do. Often this
spring and summer my early morning thoughts have been about weeds. It’s
not that m...
11 years ago
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garden bloggers' bloom day
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Previously undiscovered daylily I was too lazy to post last month.
Check out blooms from all over the place at May Dreams Gardens. We
Austinites are now en...
11 years ago
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More sights at the Williamstown Wetlands
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Here are a few more scenes from the Williamstown Wetlands a few weeks ago.
When I look at the date on these photos, it is more like a month ago. My,
how ...
11 years ago
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April Happenings
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Last weekend our tomatoes went in. We only have 9 plants this year. Two are
cherry tomatoes and two heirloom and only one that is determinate. All but
on...
11 years ago
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Berry Fairies
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Berries & Fairies
My favorite time and place to look for fairies is in the early morning
hours among a patch of wild berries. This is when dew moisturizes ...
12 years ago
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Bloglull
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My garden blog buddy Jordan of Metropolitan Gardens (check out his
incredible blog if you haven’t already) said the other day that he noticed
Greenwalks ha...
13 years ago
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Summer's Great Magic has Arrived
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Summer's Great Magic Has Arrived Happy Summer EveryoneThankyou for
Celebrating with me Summer Time Magic is Here..*Many Celebrate all over the
World betwee...
13 years ago
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A Few Raindrops!
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Gaura
*Gaura lindheimeri*
Well, at least we got a little bit of rain. Seems like a lot of people are
in a good mood, today! I guess a little bit of rain...
14 years ago
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Blossom End Rot!
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Here is a picture of a tomato with blossom end rot. (although since peppers
are in the same family as tomatoes they can get it as well and just as easy)
S...
14 years ago
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