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damenora's Frontyard garden
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06 Jun 2009Life with clumsy creatures Lupine and Frontyard gardenDog and husband have the same problem — very big feet which they put in all the worst possible places. Dog put a paw smack down on the lupine and cracked the main stem down by the soil line. I stood it back up and mounded soil up around the crack in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, this i...
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13 May 2009Settling? Alpine Geranium and Frontyard gardenOf the four: One is blooming (!). Tiny pale pink flowers with rose veining. Adorable! Two are a little shabby but starting to recover. One I am not sure is going to make it.Sunny 14°C / 57°F
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13 May 2009Big Green Nemesis Frontyard gardenA little research on solanaceous weeds has revealed the identity of the nasty thorny thing that has taken up residence between the irises and the pond. Carolina horsenettle. Solanum carolinense L. It’s prickly, poisonous, and perennial. To that alliterative list we can add prolific, as ea...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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28 Apr 2009blooming Creeping Speedwell and Frontyard gardenSunny 29°C / 85°F
as of 4/28/2009. Yay.
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24 Apr 2009and they will come ... Frontyard gardenI heard the first really good substantial plosh! of a frog in the pond this morning.Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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15 Jul 2008Replacement? Zephirine Drouhin and Frontyard gardenI emailed Janet Inada at Rogue Valley Roses last night. I didn’t know much about RVR other than they had picked up the Uncommon Rose inventory when UR stopped operating as a retail nursery, so I wanted to ask about whether or not RVR sold own-root or grafted plants, if they were grafted wh...Sunny 22°C / 71°F
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14 Jul 2008Angry Zephirine Drouhin Dying and Frontyard gardenSo here’s a not so funny story: My mother arranged for her man-of-all-work to come and do some yardwork for me as part of my birthday present. He was mostly supposed to deal with the overabundant leaf problem. He was also mostly supposed to do this work last weekend when I would be home t...Sunny 28°C / 82°F
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