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16 May 2009Bouncing Back Baby Sage 'Ucb Pink' FloweringSunny 27°C / 80°F
The one that got most trampled is making a decent comeback. I cleared the weeds around it about a month ago and have been watering it occasionally. It’s to a size where someone would have to be a real idiot to step on it by mistake again!
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16 May 2009Compound Flower Tomato 'Black Plum' FloweringSunny 26°C / 79°F
Saw a weird compound flower on this today. Makes me wonder whether it’s really Black Krim. Compound flowers are something I associate with beefsteak tomatoes. Still have 10 or so tomato starts I haven’t gotten in the ground yet.
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16 May 2009More Trespassing and Plant Damage 6 Glaucous Dog Rose PruningSunny 26°C / 79°F
The neighbors repeatedly go over the property line and weedwhack my roses and/or prune them. My plants are planted a good 2 feet away from the property line. The neighbors don’t really care about property lines. When I first moved here, they continued to park in my driveway. Not blocking my...
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16 May 2009Open Fully 1 Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed' BloomingSunny 26°C / 79°F
I was wondering if this was every going to open up all the way. It is now. I suppose it will expand even more as the little cells get pollinated.
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16 May 2009Mauled Sunflower 'Edible Snack Seed' and Fox Grape 'Perlette'Sunny 26°C / 79°F
A large mammal mauled one of my sunflowers last night. Luckily it was not the one that was already open. Still, what animal wants to consume an unopened sunflower? It was broken and stripped a bit. 2 leaves were found about a foot from the stem. The bloom is missing so I assume that was the creat...
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16 May 2009Kicked OutSunny 27°C / 80°F
Planted them in the southeastern raised bed near the leeks. They have good long root systems on them. They were also easy to separate, thank god.
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12 May 2009All One At One Time 2 Tomato 'One' FloweringSunny 19°C / 67°F
All the different plantings of ‘One’ I have are in bloom.
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11 May 2009In Bloom 1 French Bush Bean 'Rolande' Flowering, French Filet Bean 'Montpellier' Flowering, and Bush Bean 'Royal Burgu...Sunny 22°C / 71°F
Montpelier started first (which makes sense since it was planted first. I think Rolande was next. Then Royal Burgundy.
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11 May 2009In Bloom 1 Pineapple Guava, Feijoa FloweringSunny 21°C / 70°F
Not all my feijoa trees are mature enough to bloom yet. But half of them are. And they’re doing it right now.
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11 May 2009Flower Buds Built 2 Hollyhock 'Black Watchman' Budding and Business in Front gardenSunny 21°C / 70°F
They’re short at this point. Will be interesting to see it unfurl an dsee how tall it gets in the windy front yard.
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