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Member since: Apr 09 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 40 | Organic gardener
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06 May 2012yellow-white deciduous azalea Blooming, half civilized garden , white rhodie with orange buds Blooming, yel...
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Sunny 17°C / 63°FSchlepping so many tomatoes in and out for the hardening off period has been getting boring so I spent a few minutes discussing with them this morning whether any of them were ready to plant out. The weather has been cold and rainy, with daytime temps in the low 50’s and nighttime in the lo...
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05 May 2012darwinii Blooming, apple trees Blooming, purple peruvian chili pepper Fruiting, yellow deciduous azalea Blo...
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Cloudy 14°C / 57°FLike a hydra, 7 new heads sprout for each one cut,and so the purple sprouting broccoli harvest continues. Cool, sunny, pretty day today. Some gardening and a walk in the arboreteum to make the day perfect. To quote Emerson “The earth laughs in flowers”, with rhodies and azaleas steal...
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04 May 2012
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Rainy 13°C / 55°FMay the Fourth be with you. (photos: To add botanical interest to this post, wildflowers blooming at Deception Pass State park on Whidbey Island last Sunday. The wild rhodies were in bud and should be blooming soon, too.)
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01 May 2012sedum confusum and Homecourt garden
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Rainy 13°C / 55°Fanyone know what kind of sedum this is?
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22 Apr 2012augustinii rhododendron O.S.U. Blooming, darwinii Blooming, Tulipa clusiana Blooming, Tulipa sylvestris Blo...
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Sunny 24°C / 75°FJoyful to return home after a week and check out the garden blooms on a warm sunny day. Why did I live without species tulips for all these years? The ones I ordered from Old House Gardens last fall are exquisite. Pollinators are active—mainly honeybees and bumblebees. Saw the white cabba...
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22 Apr 2012Tomato 'Paul Robeson' Hardening Off, green grape tomato Hardening Off, Buckbee's tomato Hardening Off, Toma...
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Sunny 24°C / 75°FReturned from a trip to southern Utah, to find all the seedlings thriving. Most of the toms have started budding. I potted up the toms and tomatillos, mostly into 1 gallon containers, and let them spend a couple of hours outside to start hardening off. Thinking about all the moving inside and out...
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15 Apr 2012gold flame spirea Budding, mock orange Breaking Dormancy, blue geranium Breaking Dormancy, old secrets gar...
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Cloudy 17°C / 63°FAnneTanne responded to a comment i made on her journal that she is also a matrix gardener, although she only learned this today. I learned this over a year ago from the book "The Self-Sustaining Garden: A Gardener’s Guide to Matrix Planting " by Peter Thompson. This photo shows what ...
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15 Apr 2012rosemary Blooming, dark star Budding, tree pee Budding, big white tree peony Budding, lilac Budding, saxi...
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Overcast 17°C / 63°FYou know you are a garden nerd when you find yourself thinking during the first half of every month about which flower will get a bloom day badge. April should have many candidates, however the early spring ones are past prime and less photogenic and most of the mid spring ones are still in bud. ...
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08 Apr 2012Epimedium Blooming, tulip pulchella violacae Blooming, rhododendron early pinkish white , kinnickkinnick Bl...
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Sunny 21°C / 70°FThat was the temperature on Easter Sunday. We have had 3 days of nice spring weather and over a week since it last rained—a refreshing change from our usual drear. In March we had 26 days of precipitation, producing a record 7.20 inches of rain, and 1 inch of snow, and only 14 days when th...
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26 Mar 2012old secrets garden
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Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
I love the way folia allows me to organize my photos so as to be able to compare the season progression across the years. I just took a photo from approximately the same vantage point as I did 2 years ago.
Either spring is late this year, or it was early in 2010.
1st photo: March 26, 2012
2nd ph...
