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I can hardly believe it’s mid May already and time once again for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. Check out the gajillion comments on her bloom day post to see what’s blooming this very minute around the world. But before you go, here a few pics of some of what’s “on” at Blithewold: (click on images for a larger view)

It’s nowhere near Halloween but the Dove tree (Davidia involucrata) has been decorated in tissue ghosts. Its other common names are “Ghost tree” and “Handkerchief tree”- go figure…

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Many of the spring bloomers are hanging on today as the summer blooms are beginning...the pansies that will dry up soon, the iberis and snapdragons are finishing, the lavender trumpet vine is just about finished. The shasta daisies and society garlics will bloom any day signaling the real arrival of summer...and with the hot weather we've had the last few days I'm surprised they didn't make it in time for Bloom Day! I'm pretty happy with my new Black Beauty Hollyhock...I like the way it sets off the nearby Alstroemeria regina.

Hollyhock Black Beauty

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The diseases to which our trees succumb can be pretty befuddling to non-arborists. After all, it's tough enough to keep up with the constant changes in human biology with which...

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I got this question while I was shopping for fertilizer the other day. Someone had read that she needed dormant oil for her apple tree and she wanted to...

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OK so I'm lame and skipped a whole bunch of Bloom Days. But, what's a girl supposed to do when she has crap for blooms? Well, this time no quitting!

So, here's to my first Bloom Day of 2008. Thanks to Carol over at May Dreams Gardens who hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on the 15th of every month. Drum roll please!

Karen Azalea planted in my front yard garden. This was one of Carolyn's recommendations.

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This is just so unnatural for me - to have to push myself to garden. But keep pushing myself I do hoping I will start enjoying it and because it has to get done.

I have never understood people who don't like to garden - but if it feels like this to them, I do get why they don't do it.

Gardening should be enjoyable. Something you can't wait to do and love to lose yourself in. . . .

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Our comfrey plants were sourced from eBay and arrived as five rather uninspiring small black coloured pieces of the sellers plant division. After a few weeks they have generated five young plants which give us hope for the future of our composting process which is in need of leafy nitrogenous material. The first year we will concentrate on building the plants up both in scale and in number.  In subsequent years comfrey will play an important role in the garden as we do battle with our poor aluvian soil. 

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The mountains or volcanoes or whatever you want to call them are back. I’m referring to those mounds of mulch that many landscapers and homeowners load up around the base of small trees. Those mounds sometimes cover as much as ten inches of the trunk of the tree. They drive me nuts. . . .

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The addition of organic matter is essential to maintaining the living organisms in the soil, which in turn produce the nutrients absorbed by plants, as well as maintaining and improving the structure of the soil itself.

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Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay is adding a new rhododendron to its plant collection. The new cultivar, 'Margaret S. Coe', is named for the daughter-in-law of William Robertson Coe, the insurance magnate and former owner of Planting Fields. The certificate of International Registration just came in from the Royal Horticultural Society in the U.K. . . .

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May bloom day is here, and the colors in the garden are looking good after a few days of rain.

The Orange Bougainvillea is looking good this week

My favorite flower the Hollyhocks are blooming everywhere. . .

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Updated 23:50 EDT: Photos are up. Part of my backyard native plant garden. It's Garden Blogging Bloom Day, the 15th of the month, when garden bloggers all over the world report on what's blooming in their gardens. I've organized this by the four...

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I spotted Mrs. Oriole gathering nesting material yesterday. I'm hoping she is making her nest in one of the trees on the edge of our property. I've never seen an oriole nest before. . . .

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Hippeastrum striatum

I finally remembered to participate in the Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day again! These are some of the flowers blooming in my La Ceiba, Honduras, garden today. I'm saving some photos for next month (when they will still be blooming) since there are so many and concentrating on the ones which may not be blooming in June due to the climate or external forces (usually leaf cutter ants). . . .

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Here is the online link to this week's The List: Top Home & Garden Events on page 27 of today's print edition in the Washington Examiner. You can find the Examiner in the many red street-boxes around town. I saved a screen capture of the listing as a JPG and posted it here -- which you can click on to read at 100%. . . .

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Ah, May in the garden .....

Dwarf iris

Autumn Moon Japanese Maple . . .

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Yoshino Cherry
Prunus x yedoensis
(PROO-nus) (yed-oh-EN-sis)

While I was cleaning off one of memory cards I came across these photos of Yoshino Cherry. It is a spectacular tree that was in full bloom the day I took the photos (April 18th, just north of NYC). This tree grows to about 50 feet although if you start out pruning it when it is young it can be held much lower. It is easy to get a nice shape out of the Oriental branching pattern. . . .

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Tackling the trumpet vine that graces our front door was a little less daunting this year. It started out looking like this . . .

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It's Gardener's Bloom Day again, and the balcony is now looking quite different from last month. The pansies have finished rioting, the summer flowering plants have shot up in height, and the hollyhocks and dahlias are covered in buds but not quite there yet. But the flowers which are dominating this month are my pelargoniums. . . .

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The parrot tulips are out in bloom with their glorious colours, frilly edges, and colourful patterns.
The photos say all that I have to say. Enjoy. . . .

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....... Now You Don't!

Scrolling back through the posts on this page I noticed that odd photos keep disappearing. It's not always the same photos each time I look. Really annoying and frustrating.

However, I have found that if I RIGHT click on the little red cross, and then RIGHT click on SHOW PICTURE, the photo will re-appear, although I may have to repeat the process three or four times. I hope it works for you.

Is anyone else having these sort of problems at the moment

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Photo courtesy of James A. Stepp,
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One of the best parts of summer (aside from summer days, of course) is long summer nights spent outdoors with friends and family.

And that’s where landscape lighting comes in—shedding light on and extending the life of alfresco gatherings. Not only does it make your outdoor spaces more functional, it provides safety and security and looks good doing it. . . .

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Posted by Katie Reblogged by Old Roses to design on 2008-05-17, 06:00:43

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There has been some relief from the intense heat thanks to some very welcome showers. Not only have the little drizzles managed to bring the temperature down but they have also ensured adequate hydration for the parched plants; for some reason (wo)manually watering the plants never replicates the magical effect rain-water has on them. So 15th May, 2008 in Indiagarden finds the Weather a tad less uncomfortable than expected, the plants in the ‘pink of their Health’; all ready to be a part of the Blooms day post started by Carol at Maydreamsgarden. . . .

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Fortunately I have something to show this month as part of Carol's "Garden Bloggers Bloom Day". April was a write-off with most of my flowers dying off or failing to bloom early enough. Yet this month has been a standout, thanks predominantly to our beautiful Aussie natives.

So, without further adoo sit back and enjoy a few of our wonderful blooms.

This fabulous borage self-seeded right next to the kid's playground equipment and has happily grown over the past few months blooming far better in this location than in the herb garden I prepared for them. Go figure. . . .

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No one was more surprised than me when NMPro Magazine put my picture on the cover of their April issue. When Kevin Neil interviewed me for the magazine I suspected that my story would end up in the back next to the classified ads.

Click here if you would like to read the entire article.

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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

        ~ Robert Frost

Elm leaves in early morning sun.

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I love lupin. The cool star-shaped leaves. And crazy cone-shape blossoms. It blooms from the bottom up, the color slowly climbing higher each day. It's like a natural thermometer marking our daily progress toward warmer weather. . . .

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Its been a good morning for colour. He flew across in front of the window and sat in the tree.

A male Western Tanager
Then came two females. He moved closer to them, watching them like teenages boys watch the girls. Then came 2 more males. No scrapping, but this guy came dangerously close to our cat. Luckily she is 14 yr and her hunting days are probably over. . . .

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There are so many different kinds of birds migrating though here right now. The White-Crowned Sparrows have been here a couple of weeks. I've read they nest in Canada and Alaska, so I bet they won't be staying for long.

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