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Member since: Apr 11 | Last seen: Feb 13 | Years gardening: 42
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29 Mar 2012
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After 22 years, USDA finally updates Zone Maps
Released last month, the guide for the nation’s 80 million gardeners reflects a warmer trend across the country. http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/InteractiveMap.aspxCloudy 17°C / 63°F -
14 Mar 2012
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Rainy 16°C / 61°F
I ran across this plant last night in my travels. It’s like nothing I’ve seen before.
It sorta looks like a fuschia, including it’s semi-woody stems (which, btw, when cut reveal a blood red center), but the leaves and flowers are fleshy, more delicate and fragile like a begonia....
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24 Oct 2011Viola, Johnny Jump Up
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Partly Sunny 19°C / 67°FNothing of special significance to add, but a picture of some very happy plants.
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15 Oct 2011Shade garden and Lobelia - Crystal Palace Blooming
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For this bloom day, I’ve got only the itty bitty lobelia to report. But for what few flowers it’s provided they sure light up the place. Photo tomorrowCloudy 21°C / 70°F -
12 Oct 2011Victorian garden
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Sunny 28°C / 82°F
A quick-n-dirty video walk-thru of the property on a beautifully hot and muggy fall day, to give a good idea what it really looks like. Though to my surprise a video seems to make it look much smaller than it really is. Maybe it’s just my cheap camera phone.
Like Youtube, you can choose be...
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11 Oct 2011Propagating & Staging garden
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Sunny 22°C / 72°F
New seeds:
-Aquilegia Cultorum ‘McKana Giants’ Mixed
-Aquilegia formosa
-Verbascum Mullein ‘Shades of Summer’
-Verbascum Mullein ‘Southern Charm’
-Flax Scarlet
-Flax Blue Lewis
-Love-In-A-Mist ‘Miss Jekyll’ Blend
-Lobelia ‘Crystal Palace’...
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11 Oct 2011
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A little bonkers, a little clarity, a little development.
Moonflower Showing True Leaves, Echinacea, Narrow Leaf (N) , Echinacea, White Swan (N) , Echinacea, Purple ...Sunny 22°C / 72°F
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I got a few things accomplished the past few days but, of course, my seedlings outpace me again.
The landscaper brought me a few bags of mini-bark/mulch so I cleaned up the front stairs area, planted out the Johnny jump-ups and included a few plugs of t...
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10 Oct 2011
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Could you please help identify?
Cloudy 22°C / 72°F
I’ve searched for hours and just can’t find this one. Any ideas?
Additional Info:
- Moderate sized woody shrub
- Very soft, pleasant feeling
- It smells pleasantly sweet, a little ‘piney’
Thanks so much!
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07 Oct 2011Viola, Johnny Jump Up Blooming, Gum Weed (N) Budding, Salvia - Red (N) Blooming, Gilia, Blue , Tidy Tips (N...
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Despite the rainy, gloomy weather some of my fine leaved friends still have the wherewithal to bloom. Just enough to brighten the day. Only one issue came up and that’s the tree lupine. It’s not even winter and it’s caught a case of the powdery mildews. It’s a native so I&...Rainy 17°C / 62°F -
06 Oct 2011
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Rainy 17°C / 62°F
What a lovely little (big) shade plant this is. A neighbor has this in their tropical garden and they have no idea what it is and I don’t either. I’d really like to find one for myself. Could you help identify it?
It’s living in bright/full shade, is about 2’ tall and abou...
