In looking back at the spring and summer gardening seasons, I want to acknowledge and learn from the things that didn't work out. It's not going to pretty, but it has to be done. The clematis 'Freckles' was expensive but...
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Yes, it’s officially fall according to the calendar, but the vegetable garden is still lush, green, and continues to yield plenty of fresh organic produce.
I’ve been gradually removing summer crops, including the heirloom tomatoes to make room for fall plantings. The only remaining warm weather veggies are the okra plants which will be pulled later this week, and a few peppers that will continue growing until the first fall frost wipes them out. . . .
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on Oct 1, 2007, 9:29PM
The city of Noblesville is wonderful community to live in for so many reasons. Recently there was a book published that ranked Noblesville in the top ten best places in the U.S. to raise a family. Today I enjoyed one of the perks of living in this grand community; I visited my local recycle center and I got free hardwood mulch. I've taken advantage of this several times and love that it is offered here. . . .
First night shift down, seven to go. Pictured is the Begonia Regal Minuet, a gift from Hil's friend.Im under strict instructions not to kill it in my flat! It has small pink flowers buds beneath, but the most beautiful thing is the foliage. It is a shimmering red and black, like Satin, you can see how the flash has reflected off the leaves surface. Its sat by the Front room window with light, but not direct sunlight.I need to do more research about the plant when im not working. I love the colours!
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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants on 2007-10-03, 00:45:48
The Rose Festival continues with Tournament of Roses a Grandiflora rose that is named after the huge New Years Day celebration in Pasadena, California. Here is a link to the Official website which has a lot of information on the festivities: click here
From the history page:
“The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club, former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase their new home's mild winter weather.". . .
I have a busy week behind me and haven't really had much time to read the blogs of my blog friends. Please excuse me. Since I am back to work fulltime I am having a hard time managing blogging, but I haven't forgotten as you can see. . . .
My family likes all fruit and we eat a lot of jelly, but Andy's all time favorite jelly is grape. I haven't really had a good crop of grapes in several years. I live in the suburbs and the grapes were planted before I lived here. Two different grapes grow (concord and red swanson) and both are on fences shared with neighbors. . . .
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Posted by Kathi Reblogged by Old Roses to fruit on 2007-10-03, 00:44:11
Moon and Stars watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is named for the large and small yellow blotches on the rind and the leaves of the plant (moons and stars). It is an open pollinated Amishheirloom variety of watermelon that at one time was thought to be extinct. Moon and Stars was grown by American gardeners sometime prior to the 1900's and was listed in seed catalogs up until the 1920's after which time it disappeared from the the market. . . .
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on Oct 1, 2007, 7:51PM
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How’d you survive the soggy weekend? Did you have to be out in the downpours and drizzle, or did you get to curl up with a nice catalog of seeds and bulbs and dream about the bee garden you’re going to plant next spring?
I’d intended to pull out the jungle of tomato vines in the garden and get some of my 200 daffodil bulbs planted. Oh yeah, and put the cider press together. The “mostly assembled” press arrived in 8 cartons and about 105 pieces. This could take some time. . .
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on Oct 1, 2007, 10:33AM
Some bloggers are very deliberate about the way they choose their subjects, word their text, integrate their photos, and ultimately create each of their posts. I admire the heck out of that, but my own blog is a lot more like my garden--a loosely knit collection of ideas, heavily subject to my whims, with some structure thrown in occasionally for good measure.
In hindsight, I should have taken some "before the fence" pictures for posterity's sake. . . .
Before I moved to Iowa, I was already a devotee of farmers and locally-grown food and all that good stuff. I was the only of my friends to join a CSA, I was a customer of Washington’s Green Grocer, and in the summer, the farmers at the market whispered behind their hands about how the girl who liked to fling around cash was cutting a path across the market.
But until I moved here, until I actually got to talk to farmers and call them up to ask them about their dairy products or their produce or how much they loved reclaiming the land from industrial farming, I didn’t really get it. . . .
The last couple of weeks as I take back my garden, my number one task has been to round up and kill hundreds of snails. They have overtaken every inch of my garden, eating plants, even those they never touched before, like my bougainvilleas. As I collect and kill all these snails a very troubling question comes to mind. What if these snails are a highly developed civilization and they see me as this all-powerful giant that has come to their home and is out to destroy their way of life?. . .
Last weekend, when Kara and Adam came for my birthday party, she brought my gift. Part of it was two miniature African Violets. I've got several regular-sized ones and while everyone says they're very easy to grow, my previous history with them belies that. However, in the last year, I've been quite successful with them, so Kara just added to my collection in a small way (pun intended). . . .
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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants on 2007-10-03, 00:40:41
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The Happy Snappy in flower today. I like the Red/pink flower with the vanilla throat, and dark stripes, like Adam and the Ants from the 1980's. Stand and Deliver!
I got another flower catalogue through the post. This one was from Dibleys, pages and pages of Streptocarpus, African Violets, Foliage Begonias, and Other Strange Houseplants that I have never heard of. . .
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This weekend we broke ground on our new vegetable garden and moved all the plants from our plot in the District of Columbia to our new home in Maryland. It's Monday night now and I still have the residual aches and pains to remind me of all we did to accomplish this endeavor. Ouch. . . .
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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardening on 2007-10-03, 00:39:17
Born from my desire to nurture and love I protect you - I nourish you Hoping you’ll grow strong and stay healthy I brag about how beautiful you are to all my friends They know I am biased but when I show them your pictures They say you are pretty, too. Maybe they are just being nice I don’t care At night I think about what is next for you I think of how you will grow and change over time and I get excited. It’s exactly like they say, hard work, but so worth it My garden, my love child
Please visit Carolyn Gail at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago where she hosts Garden Bloggers Muse Day on the 1st of every month.
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Posted by Gina Reblogged by Old Roses to whimsy on 2007-10-03, 00:38:49
I must confess, I enjoy stumping visiting gardeners by having them try to figure out at least the genus, if not the species, of unusual plants. Classifying the plant pictured above is a LOT easier now when it's blooming, for it's obviously a toad lily, but when it's not blooming, the best that most people can do is to place it in the lily family somewhere. . . .
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Posted by IBOY Reblogged by Old Roses to lilies on 2007-10-03, 00:32:17
I haven't written any entries in several weeks. The garden has not developed the way I had planned. In fact, it has been a dreary and depressing exercise in slow death. . . .
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Posted by GK Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens, weather on 2007-10-03, 00:31:25
As it is autumn we're going for a walk in the forest today. I love forest walks during this time of year as there is so much to enjoy. The forest we're walking in today is called the forest of Rucphen, slightly more than half an hour's drive from my place. The weather is nice and sunny today so, if you're ready, let's go!. . .
Awhile ago, Kim at Blackswamp Girl did a post on things in other people's gardens that you can appreciate, but that you would never want to have in your own garden. Well, I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, and on Saturday I went shopping with a friend to Waterloo Gardens in Exton (super plant selection and a clearance section to.die.for) and was able to further flesh out my list. I bought a bunch of stuff too and will post about that later this week. And be forewarned that I sometimes cross the line into things that, if I were Queen, would never be in anybody's garden. Here is my list. . . .
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Posted by meresy_g Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens, whimsy on 2007-10-03, 00:30:26
How did I miss September, one of my favorite months? Not in real life; it was full. But not a single post on either blog. Maybe I'll catch up on the posts I meant to write, such as my new adventures in vegetable gardening. . . .
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Generally considered to be the first Hybrid Tea Rose, 'La France'
2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Two
Today’s featured roses are of the Hybrid Tea class, my personal favorite. Created in the mid-1800’s the Hybrid tea roses quickly became the most popular roses of the 20th Century. Growing with straight stems with a single large bloom at the terminus the hybrid tea certainly expanded the range of colors available to gardeners. I must say now the Floribundas and Grandifloras are catching up now. The higher maintenance and greater disease susceptibility of the Hybrid Teas have cut into their popularity. I still like them and some of my favorite roses are in this class including Peace and most of its relatives, Double Delight, Mr. Lincoln, and Tropicana just to name a few. . . .
About a month ago, in connection with my other blog, I received an invitation to participate in a "blog carnival". The idea is that bloggers who are writing on the same topic send a link to one of their posts to the carnival organiser, who then publishes them with a brief description of what the post contains. . . .
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