Ewa, whose beautiful garden in Poland astounds me, has tagged me with a meme.
Being the cynical blogger that I am, I had long ago given up on memes. But because I love Ewa's garden, I will do most of this meme. Like the chain letters that were their ancestors, however, the meme stops here. I do not perpetuate it, beyond saying this:
If you are reading this post and you feel inclined to write eight random things about yourself on your blog, consider yourself tagged by me.
My Eight Random Things:
Jodi at bloomingwriter, who tagged Ewa, was recently featured on Blogger's Blogs of Note list, and I was green with envy. Luckily for gardeners, green is a good colour.
Because November-to-March is a very quiet time when the garden is often buried under snow, I need a winter hobby. Last year I took the time to study and improve my photography. This year I have taken up knitting.
Until a few months ago, I did all my blogging on a PC. I am now the proud owner of a beautiful iMac. This is like returning home after being away a long time. The very first computer I owned was an original MacPlus.
In spite of my aversion to gambling and alcohol, my very favourite city to go to on vacation is Las Vegas. Ten years ago, if anyone had told me that would be the case, I would have smiled sweetly in their face and told them they were crazy.
Maybe one of the reasons I like Las Vegas so much is because I am a huge fan of the television show CSI. We even bought a board game, with collectible figurines.
Right about now, I am wishing this was a shorter meme, like maybe five random things instead of eight. But anyway, I think I have mentioned briefly before that I used to collect Art Glass. So therefore I never have a shortage of vases when I want an indoor display of flowers from my garden. (The only problem is, I worry about putting water in the vases in case they get ruined. So far I've been very careful, though, and that doesn't happen.)
I'm a bit of an appliance snob, and I like to have the best we can afford. We recently replaced our 17-year-old vacuum cleaner with a Dyson, and our washer and dryer with a set of LG Tromm series. We did not get the kind with the steam (because I'm not in the habit of dancing home from work and rushing out to party in the same dress) but the next model down, which has a moveable control panel -- handy when your upstairs laundry demands stacking appliances.
And finally...it has taken me all morning to write this meme, and I am glad to be finished now. I need to go and cuddle the cat for a while.
Photos belong to kbgardenblog.blogspot.com and may not be used without permission.
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“In the future, everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” - Andy Warhol
Today, amazon.com began accepting pre-orders for an upcoming book designed and edited by Dawn DeVries Sokol. The scheduled publication date for 1000 Artist Journal Pages is July 1 of next year, and three pages of the thousand are from my own personal journal. So [...]
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Yay! The Illustrated Garden has been accepted into Delightful Blogs.
A collection of 2,000 blogs “of interest to Generation X and Baby Boomer women,” the site has been written up at People.com and in several newspapers. Each blog is assigned a category (mine is art) ranging from activism to ecology, parenting to global travel.
Some very [...]
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Here's a book that makes me totally envious. That is, I wish I'd written it. It's so clever and amusing.
Keep warm, enjoy and have a blessed Thanksgiving.
TITLE: "Radical Prunings: A Novel of Officious Advice From the Contessa of Compost" BY: Bonnie Thomas Abbott PUBLISHER / PRICE: Emmis Books / $14.95
Purpose: Disguised as installments of a published column, the entries in "Radical Prunings" bring readers on a journey that is at once erudite, comical and poignant. In addition to valuable tidbits of gardening advice, we're also treated to juicy gossip about the columnist's family and staff, and somewhere along the way forget we're reading fiction. . . .
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I am curious if anyone knows a good substitute for bone meal/phosphorous source. My garden clearly needs phosphorous, but I hesitate to buy a big sack because. . .
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Here's an interesting graphic at wikimedia that shows you the shapes of the leaves in your garden. Use this graph and talk to the pro's like you know. ..
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As we in the US are getting ready to commemorate the Pilgrims' harvest (which they might not have had without help from the natives), another helpful native is brightening up the woods with its late flowers.
I started looking for the flowers of our native Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) beside a walking trail in our neighborhood in late October. The buds were showing color then, but none were open. When I went back last week, it was in full bloom. . . .
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Still thinking through the wheres and the whats... Willis is inexpensive and has a great selection -- they have stuff in stock that Just Fruits doesn't.
It bugs me that there's no indication of the rootstock they use on their apple and pear trees... I've written them. I guess I prefer a M111, since its been well-tested.
Trying to figure out what to do with the roughly forty foot by forty foot space at the top of my garden. Here's what I've come up with. (Click on the pic for a PDF where you can see the detail.)
These are the last of the apples from the cooking apple tree. And 2 from the eating apple tree, which still has several hanging. The birds have started eating those red ones, they are so delicious! I have been thinking of all different ways to use the green apples. My favorite so far is added to oatmeal with raisins, and cooked along with it.
This red cabbage is coming off tommorro, to be eaten for our harvest festival. I think I remember my Mom made cooked red cabbage with apples. I'll have to find a recipe for that.
I was one of several garden bloggers inteviewed by Doug Green for an article on garden blogging for The American Gardener, which is published by the American Horticultural Society. I thought the...
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Many books have been written on the subject of companion planting, the technique of grouping plants that benefit each other. But centuries before those books were written, the Iroquois and...
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There's no
groundcover known to humankind that's as successful as liriope at preventing
erosion on even the steepest hillsides, at surviving wet or bone dry conditions,
and doing all that in full sun or deep shade. You can yank it roughly out of
the ground and cram it back into the ground and it won't complain.
Best of all for budget gardeners who need to cover ground, it'll spread and
fill out quite quickly. Just divide the clumps you bought and they'll
soon be ready to be divided again and before you know it - no bare ground will
be showing, and weeds don't stand a chance in the thick mass of sheer liriope. . . .
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For a short time Chacala was the earliest port on the West Coast of Mexico to be used for unloading freight from ships arriving from Spain. The freight was hauled to the Guadalajara area. And the ores and agricultural products being shipped back to Spain were hauled back to Chacala. It is a very protected little cove and a safe harbor for boats. . . .
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I don't have much time to write this, so it's going to be a bit jumbled, going back and forth in time. But here goes:
We left off with: At the same time that we came up with the idea of a multi-level deck, something crazy called living out your dreams took hold of me and I got this idea that if I'm already fulfilling one dream (building the roof over the deck), why not go for my other splashy one...
So a few weeks ago (well, months ago, really) I received a new book from the University of Chicago Press. It was called “Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners” by James Nardi.
With any book I receive, gift or promotional, I try to read cover to cover before making any comments on. . .
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Along with the rosehips, these hawthorn berries are decorating the hillside now. I just realized this little tree has something to offer across the seasons. See these links: Blossoms Summer shade Autumn leaves Berries and snow
Again, I am still in catch up mode. Not long now and I'll be in tune - reality, photos, stories all as one. But for now, bear with me while I show off. Remember my winter beds? Well look at this beauty. I took this photo on the 25th of July. Isn't that an amazing head of broccoli? Big and tight and beautiful colours. I had a glut but alas that was yesterday and now I have none.
They're everywhere. Christmas trees seem to drop down in bulk, the minute you put down your fork on Thanksgiving Day. Traditional balsam and pines, fraser firs - and...
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No, the question is not: Do we all want to be sustainable gardeners? But, if we were serious about the environment is it actually POSSIBLE for us to be self-sufficient for our food intake? Is there enough land that we could all have a large enough plot of soil to grow all our dietary needs?
In a nutshell, the answer is 'Yes'... and 'No'. . . .
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Landscape maintenance mistakes, or horticultural horrors, abound in residential and public landscapes. How can we learn from these landscape maintenance errors?
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