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27 Jan 2009My tweet visitors and squirrely friends 1Overcast 9°C / 49°F
I’ve had so many wonderful visitors to the garden this winter and with the new LIVE WILDLIFE CAM I can get pix as they come right up to my window.
This squirrel got stuck on my fused glass windchime. He was fine but it took him a half hour to figure out how to jump to the branch!
The little...
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25 Jan 2009HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR PLANT PEEPS!!Sunny 4°C / 40°F
My very fave holiday is Chinese New Year and today is the first day of the 2009 holiday!!! I went out and took a few pix in the garden which is starting to show signs of life
The hellebore is a luscious apricot which I just purchased
The Banana I cut back and it had started to grow then got froz...
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23 Jan 2009Purchased Helleborus 'Mardi Gras Apricot' Purchased and Art Showcase garden
This is a beauty 24×36″ tall Exquisite, nodding apricot-colored flowers above large leathery leaves. Bred by Charles Price…orange shades
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23 Jan 2009Dont get caught with your PLANTS DOWN! 1Cloudy 1°C / 34°F
My friends Frankie and Susan and I are known as the Three Marketeers around these parts…we haunt all the garden centers and farmers markets and pile the car to the brim with treasures wherever we go.
Today it was friggin cold and a few snowflakes fell but we braved the elements to shop for plants...
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02 Sep 2008Hot Hot Hot Peppers and Gourmet Magazine feature 5 2Cloudy 19°C / 67°F
Today I went out to pick peppers off of my dozen or so varieties of hot peppers and came up with such a beautiful bowlful I had to go in to get my camera and preserve these colors!! In about a half hour they will be all pale and charred on my grill getting them ready for salsa making.
The second ...
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27 Aug 2008Gone but not forgotten....images of the tree removal 6 1Overcast 13°C / 56°F
Thank goodness yesterday is over with!! All I could do to keep from thinking about my tree was to actually photograph her removal …….I”m not quite sure why that made me feel better but I guess it’s kind of a “closure” thing. The 4th photo is Carlos is up in the tree starting to cut the first br...
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26 Aug 2008A funeral for a grand old "firry" friend 10 9Overcast 14°C / 58°F
This is a very hard day for me and I know I am getting overly emotional but just can’t seem to fight the tears off. When we returned from our trip to New York I noticed my oldestDouglas Fir which is from old growth forest was shedding needles EVERYWHERE. Her “fir” was literally falling out by t...
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24 Aug 2008YES...we have no bananas!!! 2 3Rainy 16°C / 61°F
But boy do we have a beautiful clump of banana trees this year!! She made it back 2 winters now here in Portland OR. Bananas are very touch and go in this area but with our location being up against a hill, we are in a sort of micro climate. I expect next year if this tree makes it through the ...
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21 Aug 2008A week in the Urban Jungle..NY and DC 4 1Overcast 11°C / 52°F
I recently took a 2 week vacation visiting the east coast and took a ton of photographs for a book I’ve been working on. It’s interesting being in the larger cities and scouring the asphalt and glass skyscrapers for signs of vegetation but they are there..and if you are very observan...
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22 Jul 2008Highlighting a Superstar! 4 2Cloudy 14°C / 58°F
This Oriental Trumpet hybrid by B and D Lilies is so magnificent this year I simply had to do a blog entry JUST about this flower!!!
Below is directly from the B and D catalog
http://www.lilybulb.com/l9045.html
Classification: Oriental-Trumpet Hybrid Lily (USDA Zones 5-9, the colder climates of ...
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