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21 Jul 2008The birdwoman of Portland 1 2Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
I am just blown away this year about the number of bird rescues and encounters I’ve had so far in 2008. Yesterday was quite the interesting day indeed!!
First in the early AM as I’m sitting in the garden with my coffee, I hear screeches from multiple birds that sound like hawks. S...
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17 Jul 2008Custard Candy=Eye Candy!!! 4 6Overcast 13°C / 55°F
• Check out the blooms on my daylily “Custard Candy” this week!!! What a show with the 8" blossoms in mouthwatering custard cream topped with a raspberry eyezone. Such a favorite I wish I could force them to bloom year round. I a blooming clump they stop traffic on my street...
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14 Jul 2008From Pandas to Posies! 2 2 The daylily gardenOvercast 31°C / 88°F
We just returned from a 10 day trip to the east coast (ohhhhhhhhh it was hot!!) where I gave a talk about my China trip at the National Zoo in DC. What a fun time!!!
One of the strangest sights was to see Tai Shan (the 3 year old panda) stomping around his enclosure filled with daylily plants....
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02 Jul 2008Almost like fireworks in the garden today!! 2 4Overcast 28°C / 82°F
Wow…going out in the morning to take photos is always an adventure but this morning I must have had 20 new varieties of clematis opening for the first time this year. It was insane!!
The daylilies are well on their way coming into show as well and one that I absolutely TREASURE is “...
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01 Jul 2008Finally it feels like summer!!!! 3 4 Art Showcase gardenSunny 23°C / 74°F
Oh yes…the weather I have been craving and waiting impatiently for has arrived!!! 90 degrees and sunny and late evening storms!!! This is growing weather and the plants are in heaven!!
I have over 15 different varieties of abutilons in the garden and they really do love the pacific NW cl...
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22 Jun 2008Rose Campion Rose Campion Flowering and Art Showcase gardenSunny
Looking spectacular out by the roadside this week!!!
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22 Jun 2008Garden on Steroids and a touch of Zonal Denial! 2Cloudy 14°C / 58°F
Yesterday after a nice few days of 80 degree temps following a deep soaking rain I finally am being rewarded with the blooms I have been waiting for all spring. Long overdue (by 3 weeks) because of the unseasonably cool temps and cloud cover this year, the organic fertilizers and mulching and pa...
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21 Jun 2008Sown Banana "Musa" Sown and Art Showcase garden
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21 Jun 2008Growing like crazy! Banana "Musa" and Art Showcase gardenSunny 78°C / 172°F
Getting huge this year. All the “pups” growing great and I even divided a few out to other parts of the garden
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21 Jun 2008Romantika Clematis in full bloom Clematis "Romantika" Flowering and Art Showcase gardenSunny
Every year I say it has never looked this good…well I take back every comment I have made each previous year. THIS YEAR it has never looked as good!!!!
Buzz buzz buzz!
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