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19 Sep 2009blooming 2 2 Delphinium belladonna 'Cliveden Beauty' Blooming and Business in Front garden21°C / 69°F
What I said before.
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24 Aug 2009Fitful Blooming 1 Chrysanthemum 'Lavender Pixie' Flowering and Business in Front garden21°C / 69°F
People (including me) keep accidently knocking off the blooms so I’ve seen one or two but a lot are gone. The ones that are still there haven’t bloomed yet.
Many mums starting blooming VERY early this year. But fitfully so there’s never a full show.
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05 Jul 2009Well, It's Settled 6 Party in the Back garden and Business in Front gardenSunny 22°C / 72°F
I visited my parents a week or so ago. We finally had the talk about whether I could really make this house work financially and I had to say I didn’t think it was likely I could (in this economy, anyway). So the house is going on the market in Fall.
The advantages and disadvantages are div...
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23 May 2009Preparing for the Inevitable 4 Party in the Back garden , The Waiting Room garden , and Business in Front gardenUnless my disability suddenly becomes cured enough for me to join the workforce again or I win the lottery, it’s looking like I’m going to lose my home. Which isn’t fun but the absolute worst bit of it is losing the gardens I’ve planned so carefully and toiled over. Partic...Overcast 10°C / 50°F
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12 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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28 Apr 2009More Weather Follies 2 Mulberry 'Persian' , Party in the Back garden , Business in Front garden , and The Waiting Room gardenWhat Nic and Nath do with Folia is amazing. I’m a HUGE fan of this site. I wish they had a better cheap source of weather info available to them, though. I’ve found no particular site on the web that archives past weather information. Not for exceptional stuff like record-breaking col...Windy 16°C / 60°F
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26 Apr 2009After Years, A Flower 4 California Wild Rose Flowering and Business in Front gardenOvercast 9°C / 48°F
I bought this as a single stem that was in a small start container at The Watershed Nursery. I planted that and it suckered out and has grown through half the bed. But it’s never flowered. I almost didn’t catch this flower because I had just stopped looking for them.

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