By the time you read this, I will be on the first leg of my Great Adventure. This evening, Lord willing, I will be picked up by a good friend at the Austin airport, who will accompany me tomorrow to...
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on Sep 26, 2007, 11:10AM
I recently moved from an apartment to a house that I bought. The previous home owners had 2 big dogs running around in the yard and could not do much. . .
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on Sep 27, 2007, 1:39PM
Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to landscape on 2007-09-28, 06:55:45
I woke up extra early yesterday morning in hopes of nabbing a couple of foggy morning shots a la Kathleen, but my timing was all screwed up so I ended up venturing Blue Ridge Parkway to see if I could get a decent estimate on the autumn colors.
My Color Report this week: There are plenty of colors up here, just not of the fall kind. There are blotches of reds and yellows on top of Grandfather Mountain and upon the drought stressed maple trees lining the streets of Boone, but we just ain't near there yet. Fall has to cook some more. . . .
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on Sep 27, 2007, 6:46PM
I'm so pleased to get a good harvest of kale. Midsummer, my kale leaves were filled with holes from the green caterpillars of the white cabbage butterfly. To holey for me to eat. I've had the plants covered with garden fabric since them. Now the leaves are very nice. I sauteed them with garlic, then added water and blanched about 5 minutes. Very tasty. I've read they are sweeter after a frost so I'm looking forward to eating the rest of the leaves this winter.
The variety is called Dinosaur Kale. Seeds were from Seeds of Change. Brassicaceae
I have to say that the little Eastern Sedgefrog would come close to being our favourite frog. Firstly they are very cute and friendly . Unless you make a clumsy movement they generally let you get close with the camera without jumping off. They are quite often found resting in the daytime on a leaf or the stem of a reed. It's chirpy call is quite pleasant to listen to in the early evening. Hopefully if we get a little more rain with our spring storms they might breed. From what I've read Sedgefrogs like to breed from the end of winter onwards. the tadpoles need about 90 days to complete the cycle so they like to breed early.
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Posted by roybe Reblogged by Old Roses to beneficials on 2007-09-28, 06:53:02
I've been away for a while and suddenly realized that September is almost gone. There are so many tasks in my own garden left to do. The October rush will soon begin for me to finish up my landscaper duties. But for today, I'm having fun in my own back 40. . . .
It is Thursday all day today! Here is an online link to this week's The List: Top Home & Garden Events on page 27 of today's print edition in the Washington Examiner. . . .
All summer long, and earlier, in the spring, this garden has been a great source of delight to me. I call it the Rose Garden because there are 3 rose bushes planted here, but it could just as well be named the Clematis Garden.
Here it is in early June before we decided to enlarge it.
The Jackmanii Clematis, growing tall on the left (this picture was taken before the blooms began to open) is really the star of this little corner, producing a mass of purple blooms from June 21st this year and lasting until about the 2nd week in August. Carnaby, the other clematis that you see in the corner, has its main burst of blooms earlier in the spring and then reblooms on and off all through the summer. . . .
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Posted by Kerri Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-09-28, 06:48:11
Welcome to "Show & Tell" Friday featuring my latest project, some pumpkins as well as a very special guest at the end of this post! And special thanks to Kelli at "There’s no place like home" for hosting S&T each week!
Die Hauptrollen spielen heute mein neustes Outdoor-Projekt, Kürbisse sowie ein Ehrengast am Ende dieses Posts.
May I proudly present you to my new outdoor sewing table! It was made with the legs from an antique sewing machine. . . .
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Posted by Anita Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-09-28, 06:43:56
taken during a recent day at the beach with Manley (hubby--that's his foot) and our daughter
After a summer of blogging in a hurry, I wanted to say thank you to those of you who have dropped by and left comments here at the Empire. I don't always make the time to reply to comments but do appreciate them very much. I also wish I had a comment system that allows personal notes back by email but I don't. . . .
Yes, I have been surfing before, but I was more of maturing the websites in my bookmarks collection. Now I have taken time to read some of them carefully, and have even added some new. To be able to pick out the best I rethought my motif to do this experiment. The first requirement is that there's as little trouble as possible. "Trouble" in this case is to many new and complicated procedures in the growing method, too complicated containers and soils. . . .
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Posted by Rosengeranium Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs on 2007-09-28, 06:40:37
Not that long ago, I went out to cut some parsley for a dish I was making, and very nearly harvested myself a caterpillar.
I don’t understand how this works. There were, as it turned out, three of these vibrant guys hanging out in my two parsley pots, all chilling on a parsley sprig of their own, not appearing to be eating anything, just sitting there. When I first looked at the plants, I didn’t see them at all, and then I looked closer, and suddenly it was a veritable nuclear family of caterpillars. . .
This year's theme was Australian Icons, Myths and Legends. However, it's very difficult to determine what is what from ground level, so I didn't even try and just took photos instead.
(Click on photo for larger view.)
Enough tulips to make a Dutch family homesick.
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Posted by Alice Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2007-09-28, 06:39:47
Learn about bird feeding and winter bird watching and plan to participate in the 2007 to 2008 bird count for Project FeederWatch with expert guidance from the Lab.
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on Sep 27, 2007, 4:00AM
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The rose garden at the farm is coming along nicely and I decided to take some pictures over there. I was joking with my co-workers that I was the ‘Head Rose Grower’ at the farm. I reality I guess I am but I am also the only rose grower. I inherited all of the varieties in the garden. In a way that was helpful as I am growing a lot of roses I would have never chosen due to my own prejudices and previous bad experiences with some varieties and types. I probably would also have been worried a lot about colors. . . .
It was Michael Moore that said in his movie Bowling for Columbine that we are supposed to be afraid and consume. If you are afraid of crime, you should buy a gun. If you are afraid of having an inadequate car, you should buy an SUV. If you are afraid of being fat or unhealthy, you should buy diet or other special foods.
In this way, for many people, doing good things for yourself or for the world means spending money. . .
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on Sep 27, 2007, 5:15AM
Posted by Patrick Reblogged by Old Roses to environment on 2007-09-28, 06:37:43
Although September signals the approach of the end of gardening season for many gardeners, we can take some consolation in the beauty fall provides. You can literally walk...
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on Sep 26, 2007, 9:12PM
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Tonight is the Harvest Moon. It will rise at 1848EST (7:48 pm EDT) in Belmont MA. It should be bright enough to harvest tomatoes and eggplants late into the night (if that's what I was planning to do).
In flower yesterday.I have done my extra set of three nights. I like the three flowers hovering above the variegated leaves. More posts later today after I have slept a while :)
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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to cyclamen on 2007-09-28, 06:36:19
My Dad went to Purdue and I still have family in Indiana, so the headline to this story caught my eye. Glad I read it - fascinating stuff and begs for a similar survey to be done in every municipality. Then for action to be taken. At left here is a parking lot spanning two city blocks turned rain garden in downtown DC where the old DC Convention Center once stood (9th and H Streets, NW). That new lot is a great example of how to do a large parking lot and integrate green elements should you have to have one. Here are some relevant quotes from the article on parking space and responsible land use. . .
Received this plant from friends just a few weeks ago. It had three buds and I have had the privilege of watching them bloom. Two bloomed in the same. . .
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on Sep 27, 2007, 12:01AM
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