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It's exactly 30 degrees. There is steam rising from the ponds this morning and I suppose there will be tomorrow morning also.

Not as much got done this weekend as I'd wished. Of course. . . .

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While we have our pruners out this spring, it's a good time to take a look at those shrubs we planted to give ourselves some privacy. Personally, I like...

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While we have our pruners out this spring, it's a good time to take a look at those shrubs we planted to give ourselves some privacy. Personally, I like...

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As water supplies around the world continue to feel the pinch of decreased winter snowfall and increased community needs, drought conditions will only become more frequent. In many parts of the country, as soon as a town or county declares a drought situation, you won’t be able to water your lawn. Unfortunately, your lawn will do very poorly without at least one inch of rain or water per week. That said, there are a number of things you can do to prepare your lawn for drought conditions. . . .

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As water supplies around the world continue to feel the pinch of decreased winter snowfall and increased community needs, drought conditions will only become more frequent. In many parts of the country, as soon as a town or county declares a drought situation, you won’t be able to water your lawn. Unfortunately, your lawn will do very poorly without at least one inch of rain or water per week. That said, there are a number of things you can do to prepare your lawn for drought conditions. . . .

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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Do you remember that I did some late planting of bulbs in November last year?

Here are the result, tulips in the gravel! I just love botanical tulips and my deers doesn't likes then, perfect. I think I like them so much because they are 'in floribus' early and they are so small, pretty and really genuine looking. When it's cold they close up and says -"We are freezing where is the sun" and when the sun comes and warm the tulips they opens up and says in a tulip choir - "Look at me, look how beautiful I am!" Some of the them are extremely early and they had already bloomed over when I took this photo below. . . .

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Do you remember that I did some late planting of bulbs in November last year?

Here are the result, tulips in the gravel! I just love botanical tulips and my deers doesn't likes then, perfect. I think I like them so much because they are 'in floribus' early and they are so small, pretty and really genuine looking. When it's cold they close up and says -"We are freezing where is the sun" and when the sun comes and warm the tulips they opens up and says in a tulip choir - "Look at me, look how beautiful I am!" Some of the them are extremely early and they had already bloomed over when I took this photo below. . . .

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It's what every gardener wishes for: rich, dark, crumbly humus to plant in. Humus occurs naturally, of course. Picture the forest floor; a layer of fallen leaves covers rich dark...

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It's what every gardener wishes for: rich, dark, crumbly humus to plant in. Humus occurs naturally, of course. Picture the forest floor; a layer of fallen leaves covers rich dark...

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Here are my two hoes...the long handled one that I've had forever and the short handled one that belonged to my father-in-law...which I've never actually used. The truth is they are shown here relaxing in the yard because that is what they usually do...neither of them do all that much work. At one point in time I used the long handled one a lot but now there just isn't much room to swing a hoe...I guess because I usually work in small areas at a time. And the short handled one looks like a back ache waiting to happen...but I keep it anyway for sentimental reasons.

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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to tools on 2008-05-06, 06:55:55

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Here are my two hoes...the long handled one that I've had forever and the short handled one that belonged to my father-in-law...which I've never actually used. The truth is they are shown here relaxing in the yard because that is what they usually do...neither of them do all that much work. At one point in time I used the long handled one a lot but now there just isn't much room to swing a hoe...I guess because I usually work in small areas at a time. And the short handled one looks like a back ache waiting to happen...but I keep it anyway for sentimental reasons.

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The petals of the flowering 'Kwanzan' cherries are rapidly falling with warmer weather settling in so I decided to post this before it is too far out of season. So many things are blooming now, I'm falling behind.

Yesterday it looked like light pink snow falling when the wind picked up a bit. The pictures were taken about a week ago. They are of the purple leaf mutation 'Kwanzan' and the normal one. I thought the purple leafed 'Kwanzan' was so lovely, we bought two to grace the front of the house. They seem to be less robust than the normal one and because of that much more graceful.


Purple leaf mutation of the 'Kwanzan' flowering cherry. . . .

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The petals of the flowering 'Kwanzan' cherries are rapidly falling with warmer weather settling in so I decided to post this before it is too far out of season. So many things are blooming now, I'm falling behind.

Yesterday it looked like light pink snow falling when the wind picked up a bit. The pictures were taken about a week ago. They are of the purple leaf mutation 'Kwanzan' and the normal one. I thought the purple leafed 'Kwanzan' was so lovely, we bought two to grace the front of the house. They seem to be less robust than the normal one and because of that much more graceful.


Purple leaf mutation of the 'Kwanzan' flowering cherry. . . .

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Over the weekend I noticed the ditch near the road had turned blue. I don't know how I missed these last year because the entire roadside is covered with them.

A few minutes with the wildflower books told me that they're Salvia lyrata, maybe a bit weedy (but native!) and hummingbirds will sip from them. And while I was sitting on the deck looking this up, a hummingbird came by to investigate some arugula that had started to flower but soon left in search of something better. . . .

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Over the weekend I noticed the ditch near the road had turned blue. I don't know how I missed these last year because the entire roadside is covered with them.

A few minutes with the wildflower books told me that they're Salvia lyrata, maybe a bit weedy (but native!) and hummingbirds will sip from them. And while I was sitting on the deck looking this up, a hummingbird came by to investigate some arugula that had started to flower but soon left in search of something better. . . .

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Posted by Entangled Reblogged by Old Roses to natives on 2008-05-06, 06:55:22

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I've been sulking for the last few days. And in a gardening quandry. Saturday, I was out cutting my front lawn, or rather the half that grew tall enough for a cut, when the neighbor came out to talk to me. The privacy fence in the back yard is leaning, worse, pulling out of the ground. I figured it was my landlord's, since the neighbor doesn't have privacy fencing. And I figured I could always insert a new post if things got from bad to worse. . . .

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Posted by millionbells Reblogged by Old Roses to fence on 2008-05-06, 06:55:03

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I've been sulking for the last few days. And in a gardening quandry. Saturday, I was out cutting my front lawn, or rather the half that grew tall enough for a cut, when the neighbor came out to talk to me. The privacy fence in the back yard is leaning, worse, pulling out of the ground. I figured it was my landlord's, since the neighbor doesn't have privacy fencing. And I figured I could always insert a new post if things got from bad to worse. . . .

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I still have several posts in the queue from garden tours I went on last summer. Here's another one: This garden is in a beautiful little town with lots of older homes. Many of these houses have barns instead of garages. This homeowner hung stars on the side of their barn to break up the monotony of the wall. I love the large scale: a big wall deserves big art. ..

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I still have several posts in the queue from garden tours I went on last summer. Here's another one: This garden is in a beautiful little town with lots of older homes. Many of these houses have barns instead of garages. This homeowner hung stars on the side of their barn to break up the monotony of the wall. I love the large scale: a big wall deserves big art. ..

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More pond photos from garden tours I went on last summer. They varied from very large, to very small. Some true excavated ponds, others repurposing old structures....

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More pond photos from garden tours I went on last summer. They varied from very large, to very small. Some true excavated ponds, others repurposing old structures....

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I’d like to thank everyone who stopped by to express their condolences on the loss of Chris’ cousin who was a very good friend of ours. I was supposed to be in another city and attending the visitations today, but I got really sick yesterday and our car broke down. So I’m home tonight … Chris can’t even drive back to pick me up as our car hasn’t been repaired yet. You can read a more detailed explanation of what happened on my main blog if you’d like.

So on to garden related stuff …

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I just love arches all about, with colorful, fancy, old fashioned flowers. Morning glories, black eyed Susan vine and passion flowers are among my favorites. Nothing adds appeal more like some height that can be had by arches, trellis or hooks even. You can bet the new house will have plenty of towering beauties like these from last years collection.

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Posted by Sue Neitzel Reblogged by Old Roses to vines on 2008-05-06, 06:49:44

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I just love arches all about, with colorful, fancy, old fashioned flowers. Morning glories, black eyed Susan vine and passion flowers are among my favorites. Nothing adds appeal more like some height that can be had by arches, trellis or hooks even. You can bet the new house will have plenty of towering beauties like these from last years collection.

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I spent the day Friday touring the fields and coolers of a prolific cut-flower grower up in the Skagit Valley with my oldest daughter, Erin, also a cut-flower grower. With her as my guide, I took in row after row of this master grower’s tulips and jonquils, and Leucojum in bloom. Then there were the Narcissus and Muscari . . . and Scilla, and rows and rows of and young lilys and budding Alliums, and an entire field of Eremerus that have grown, thus far to about a foot tall.
Jan is both magician and a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to growing flowers from bulbs.
So much life and beauty, so many flowers to capture the imagination and leave one in a state of eager anticipation; with veritable seas of blooms yet to come.
Here are a few peeks from our adventure.

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I spent the day Friday touring the fields and coolers of a prolific cut-flower grower up in the Skagit Valley with my oldest daughter, Erin, also a cut-flower grower. With her as my guide, I took in row after row of this master grower’s tulips and jonquils, and Leucojum in bloom. Then there were the Narcissus and Muscari . . . and Scilla, and rows and rows of and young lilys and budding Alliums, and an entire field of Eremerus that have grown, thus far to about a foot tall.
Jan is both magician and a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to growing flowers from bulbs.
So much life and beauty, so many flowers to capture the imagination and leave one in a state of eager anticipation; with veritable seas of blooms yet to come.
Here are a few peeks from our adventure.

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Its a good week for planting squash-type seeds indoors in pots. Seeds like cukes, squashs, pumpkins and watermelons (curcurbits)... Maybe the weather will be warm enough to plant them outside next week! We'll see. . . .

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Its a good week for planting squash-type seeds indoors in pots. Seeds like cukes, squashs, pumpkins and watermelons (curcurbits)... Maybe the weather will be warm enough to plant them outside next week! We'll see. . . .

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I laid out the first designs.

I lugged and sweated the 6×6 beams into place.

I carried all the cardboard.

I laid all the cardboard. . .

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I laid out the first designs.

I lugged and sweated the 6×6 beams into place.

I carried all the cardboard.

I laid all the cardboard. . .

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From Isaac's observation journal...

Column 2, 3 (Summer Glory) -- lots of sprouts, some large, some small.
Column 4 (Epazote)-- no germination yet
Column 5 (Amaranth) -- two cells sprouted
Column 6 (Lagos Spinach) -- spotty germination
Column 7 (Basil) -- great germination
Column 8, 9 (Queensland Lettuce) -- fair germination
Column 10 (Cachucha) -- no germination yet

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From Isaac's observation journal...

Column 2, 3 (Summer Glory) -- lots of sprouts, some large, some small.
Column 4 (Epazote)-- no germination yet
Column 5 (Amaranth) -- two cells sprouted
Column 6 (Lagos Spinach) -- spotty germination
Column 7 (Basil) -- great germination
Column 8, 9 (Queensland Lettuce) -- fair germination
Column 10 (Cachucha) -- no germination yet

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Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens
(eye-BEER-is) (sem-per-VY-renz)


Here is another plant that I can’t really grow because the deer love it. There has been a little patch growing on the Estate in some cracks in the rock work. If it sticks head above the rocks it gets munched. It has kind of adapted to that and flowers below the rocks but hasn’t been able to spread. In general it likes soil that is average and it has be well draining. . . .

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Evergreen Candytuft
Iberis sempervirens
(eye-BEER-is) (sem-per-VY-renz)


Here is another plant that I can’t really grow because the deer love it. There has been a little patch growing on the Estate in some cracks in the rock work. If it sticks head above the rocks it gets munched. It has kind of adapted to that and flowers below the rocks but hasn’t been able to spread. In general it likes soil that is average and it has be well draining. . . .

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My foray into growing the fuchsia plant, commonly misspelled fuschia, wasn't as successful as I had initially hoped. Sure, the plant grew okay and produced a few spectacular flowers but from then onwards it suffered at the peril of my non-fuchsia-gardening-hands.

I had bought it at a local market overflowing with blooms and brimming with optimism. The seller gave me a few tips to care for it but in the hectic marketplace missed the most important element one needs when growing fuchsias. I thought the key was fertiliser and so I would dowse it in an organic liquid solution every 2 weeks while flowering only to find that this wasn't helping. In fact, it was doing quite the opposite. . . .

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