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08 Oct 2009First Frost 2 2 Container gardenClear -1°C / 30°F
8.45pm Bright, sunny, windy and distinctly chilly, barely 3C at 10.30 am – need to dig out mitts and touque. The little dahlias and the big white all touched by frost, the weather station said it got down to -1.6C.
Got home at 5.00 and by 6.30, I had dug up all the begonias, including the ...
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02 Sep 2009The end of Summer - snow on the peaks 4 2 Container garden and Clematis 'Golden Tiara'Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
5.43 pm
As I went out of my garden this morning on my way to the studio, I thought how very nice it would be to spend the day or at least a part of it in the garden. The pressure is on to produce work for the Art in the Park exhibition, I need to have a piece to be photographed by this Tuesday fo...
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08 May 2009Gotta get them planted... Container gardenPartly Sunny 19°C / 66°F
Checked the weather, a couple of nights in the next two weeks when the overnight temperature might go down to 3C so fingers crossed that it won’t go lower. Moved almost all the plants that have been sitting on the porch for the last couple of weeks down to the corner of the house in Porch b...
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08 May 2009Just about alive... Shrubby Beard-Tongue and Container gardenOvercast 19°C / 66°F
I am not sure that this is the right place for this plant. It is supposed to be evergreen but like several other evergreens in the garden, its leaves died. I thought the branches were completely dead but when I snipped one it had a live core. It is now leafing from the bottom but I suspect it wou...
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15 Feb 2009Up from the basement... 2 Container gardenSunny -2°C / 28°F
Such a clear blue sky today, the sun appearing from behind Mt McKenzie’s higher slopes at 8.30, and almost rising clear of the tall trees opposite an hour or so later. The days are suddenly lengthening markedly and the sun is much stronger. Yesterday I could hardly raise a cheer over crocus...
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18 Nov 2008Moved Clematis carmanaii Joe Transplanted and Container gardenMoved this yesterday into the Camellia’s pot in the hope that it will like it better. It has only bloomed once and has survived much lower temperatures than advised. I think it would be the perfect companion plant for the Camellia.Sunny 0°C / 32°F
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29 Sep 2008Planting Out Double Early Tulip 'Monte Carlo' Planting Out and Container gardenYellow with red flames, 10", early, full sun, z3-8
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