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15 Aug 2009Go FIG-ure 1Overcast 18°C / 64°F
OOOOH I’ve been a busy harvester today!!! I had a bumper crop of figs from ,my Negronne variety and they are getting ripe so fast I need to put them up somehow.
In the process of making fig preserves today I decided to use some of the preserve “base” to make a glaze for lamb keb...
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03 Aug 2009Welcome to the Jungle 1Overcast 32°C / 89°F
Woooo Hoooooo this hot weather is wearing thin but my bananas and cannas are in botanical bliss!!!! The figs “Negrone” are going nuts too with a very odd succession of blooms happening 3 times this past spring. We have figs coming out of our ears!!!
Hubby Steve makes a cameo appeara...
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31 Jul 2009A bouquet of lilies on a hot hot hot hot day! 1Sunny 38°C / 101°F
I’m just stopping in quick today with some daylily and bulb lily shots. We reached 106 this week and today it felt like a cold snap at 96. Portland Oregon just doesn’t get this hot and I am spending most of every day running in and out of the airconditioning , moving sprinklers.
I h...
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26 Jul 2009A Mutant Asiatic Lily and Bee-utiful Dahlias today29°C / 84°F
What a shocker I had when I went into the garden today and this bloom was staring at me in a clump of singled flowered Asiatics.
This may be “Graffiti” from B and D lilies. I had gotten them late in the fall and forgotten to plant them so the plants were crawling out of the peat whe...
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26 Jul 2009The new arbor sure looks different now...see earlier entries too 118°C / 64°F
OMG can you believe how fast this arbor filled in??? We put this in , early spring to support the Climbing New Dawn rose which was taking over my old teeny trellis,
Now it supports not only New Dawn, but The Impressionist and a variety of clematis and a Climbing Hydrangea as well.
You can see th...
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25 Jul 2009Recipe from a first harvest of July goodies18°C / 64°F
There is nothing that makes me happier than the earliest harvest from my garden from which I can create an impromptu dinner from. Steve hit the beer festival today and I was on my own, so VEGGIES it will be for dinner.
I had a perfectly ripened avocado sitting here so I wandered out into the gard...
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15 Jul 2009You have PAN MAIL!! 218°C / 64°F
My panda mailbox is the hit of the neighborhood and this year my Oriental Hybrids from B and D lilies in Washington are making this crazy mailbox a great photo opportunity as well. I have seen at least 2 close calls for accidents when people stop in the middle of the street to gawk and take pix&...
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06 Jul 2009Garden Visitors18°C / 64°F
It really bothered me that this year the insects had not come around…bes, butterflies, ladybugs etc, until 6 weeks later than normal. I wondered if we had a neighbor using pesticides/herbicides as a couple of our baby birds had deforemed legs and beaks.
Well it’s not late July and th...
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06 Mar 2009A new arbor was put in this week in the Garden Art bed 1 1 Art Showcase gardenCloudy 2°C / 36°F
Yippie!!! The new arbor is in and I’m just thrilled with it!!!
I posted a short video on my Facebook page to show you more of a full view
CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO
This echos my first structure that Felix built for me which is inside the fence to hang all of my bird feeders from in front of ...
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05 Feb 2009A face lift for my live garden cam area 2Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
I’ve been sooooooo lucky our weather has cooperated during this remodel of my area just outside of my studio window. I have a live cam from dawn till dusk http://pandarazzi.com/livecam and am starting from scratch.
I had my garden helper Felix put up a structure to hang bird feeders from...
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