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Member since: Apr 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 40 | Organic gardener
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12 Sep 2010
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Sunny 17°C / 62°FIt is near the end of the mountain blueberry season. We drove up to the mountains today and picked 6 quarts of wild blueberries. Made 7 tarts, and still have berries for scones and pancakes. ! The mountain berries have so much character—I would miss them the most of anything if we ever le...
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11 Sep 2010roses Blooming, Zauschneria Blooming, homestead purple verbena Blooming, Sedum 'Autumn Joy' Blooming, salvi...
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Overcast 19°C / 66°FIn Bloom on 9/11/10 artichoke Asters Autumn Crocus Agastache Campanula Caryopteris Chocolate Scented Daisy Coreopsis Dahlia Echinacea Fuschia Magellicana Heathers Heuchera Japanese Anenome Jewelweed Knautia Lavender Monarda Montbretia Nasturtium Origanum rotundifolium Papaver rhoeas Parahebe Pens...
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03 Aug 2010new beginnings garden , blue ladybells , tutti frutti , mango lassi geum , astilbe , california poppy , Cam...
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23°C / 73°FLast year on 8/1 and this year on 8/3 I have: Adenophora Agastache Astilbe California Poppy Campanula Coreopsis Crocosmia Dahlia Dianthus Epilobium Eryngium Fremontia Fivespot Fuschia Magellicana Geum Gladiolus Heathers Japanese Anenome Knautia Lambs Ears Lavender Liatrus Lilies Limonium Lobelia ...
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01 Aug 2010old secrets garden , blue leaf rose rosa glauca Blooming, Joseph's coat climbing rose Blooming, little pin...
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Sunny 21°C / 70°FI have David’s permission to redo the rose garden, even though he loves roses passionately and doesn’t care that the plants are ugly. I have a few roses I like a lot, because besides the flowers, the plants are attractive, which means the leaves do not get a lot of diseases. I will s...
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23 Jul 2010new beginnings garden
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24°C / 75°FPhotos taken today, on July 3, on June 5, on May 18, and on June 25, 2009.
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23 Jul 2010
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progression of the toughies garden
spruced up garden and golden jubilee hyssop24°C / 76°Fphotos taken today, July 3, May 15, March 26, and July 1, 2009. The hyssop, especially the golden jubilee, have transformed the place. They smell fantastic too, and the orange ones are always being visited by hummers.
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08 Jul 2010Turkish Spike Poppy Blooming, yellow wood poppy Fruiting, orange wood poppy Fruiting, california poppy Bloo...
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The onset of summer: Every kind of poppy that i grow but two are blooming now. I love each of their different and suggestive looking buds, the silky petals, and especially the intricate and functional seed pods22°C / 72°F -
03 Jul 2010astrantia , brodiaea , blue poppy , Eryngium blue glitter , matilija poppy , agastache orange , red penstem...
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Cloudy 16°C / 60°FIn bloom last year in early July, and blooming again this year Achillea Astilbe Astrantia Brodaeia California Poppy Campanula Carpinteria Centranthus Ruber Columbine Coreopsis Crocosmia Dianthus Epilobium Eryngium Eremurus Foxglove Fremontia Fivespot Fuschia Magellicana Geraniums Halmiocistus* He...
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29 Jun 2010old secrets garden and flowering plum
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14°C / 58°Fwhy our driveway was full of leaves and plums. We suspected a 12 year old boy, but he is away. Now we know.
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05 Jun 2010
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Last year's June 5 versus June 5, 2010
pampered darlings garden , new beginnings garden , spruced up garden , old secrets garden , berry garden ,...16°C / 61°FIt is now one year since I decided to try and keep track of what blooms each month in my garden. It has been a colder spring this year, and so a bunch of stuff that was in full bloom last year is not blooming yet. But a few things that hadn’t bloomed last year yet are blooming now, probably...
