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Member since: May 09 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 5
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07 Jun 2013
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If next year exists … None of the red leaf, or at least more of the green butter lettuce. Swap round the bleeding heart and the brunneria.Partly Cloudy 26°C / 79°F -
14 Apr 2012Phalaenopsis 'Cassandra' Blooming, Vaccinium angustifolium 'Burgundy' Flowering, Vaccinium angustifolium 'T...
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Cloudy 18°C / 65°FLet it be spring! The week long wave of summer weather in March, has yielded to cool true spring days. Few blooms are out at the moment, but each holds the promise of bounty ahead. Photos of the ‘Seascape’ strawberry flowers, my latest phalaenopsis (beautiful mottled leaves), the stal...
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14 Mar 2012Choisya ternata 'Sundance' Budding, Osmanthus fragrans Blooming, Viola fragrans rosea Blooming, and Magnoli...
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Partly Sunny 22°C / 72°F
Well, I think the magnolia heard me thinking dark thoughts about it all winter long and made a stupendous effort to stay potential execution. It looks amazing this year with well over a dozen blooms. Last year it only provided one bloom and then moped around with rust fungus leaves all summer. It...
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14 Feb 2012Crocus biflorus 'Purity' Blooming and Crocus flavus 'Golden Yellow' Blooming
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Partly Sunny 10°C / 50°FTrying to remember that I’m more than just a medical student. These last few months have consumed my life, and the training will just continue to get more intense. However, for my February resolution (did New Year’s happen this year?), I’d like to try to balance things a little ...
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12 Feb 2012
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Unknown Plant (with hopes for spring) ....
Windowbox Display gardenSunny 8°C / 46°F
Poking around the internet for inspiration, I stumbled across this rather fantastic windowbox idea. I think I can identify most of the plants in it, except for the purpley-green ones. At first I thought they might be some type of hebe, but they look much looser than that. Anyone have any ideas?
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18 Dec 2011
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Belated Blooms of the Winter Season
Davallia fejeensis Growing, Citrus limon 'Spanish Pink Variegata' Flowering, Osmanthus fragrans Blooming, S...Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
13 Aug 2011
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Storms 27°C / 81°F
Received a photo of this tree as background in an advertising email from a gardening site back in spring; however, when I emailed them to ask what it was, I never received a response.
Does anyone here have any idea what it is? Some type of cherry or quince?I’d love to consider planting som...
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14 Jun 2011Hydrangea macrophylla 'Cityline Venice' Blooming
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30°C / 86°FWith the simplicity of mini plant-specific updates on the dashboard, any journal musings have been lost to the buzz and hum of summer. However, we’re grateful here to have suddenly cooler and drier days in the midst of what should normally be sweltering summer. So we’ll enjoy it whi...
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14 May 2011Phalaenopsis Tzu Chiang Chrisna 'SJ' Blooming, Dendrobium Blooming, Citrus limon 'Spanish Pink Variegata' F...
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26°C / 79°FHappy Bloom Day, everyone! In spite of full spring, most of my bloomers this month are inside. We’re past the spring ephemerals here and it’s still too early for summer flowers. This month I seem to be having luck with orchids! The new dendrobium spikes are in full bloom, my dear o...
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23 Apr 2011
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Garbage Surprise and Mistreated Plants of the Region
Prunus kwanzan Flowering and Iris reticulata BloomingOvercast 27°C / 80°FSo, when my Ebay-special iris bulbs that I had carefully chilled for 8 weeks (supposed to be 14) started sprouting too vigorously to keep in the back of the fridge I set them out on the porch. They then appeared to sulk, and put forth a bit more green growth and then stalled. So, a week ago, I ...
