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26 Jul 2009Misc. tasks: ornamental 1 2 Perennial Border garden , Sideyard garden , and SoPo gardenOvercast 25°C / 77°F
Area 4 & 5:
• Took out giant whatever it is (fleabane?)
• Put bugbane there
• Staked up Hollyhock to the fence
Sideyard:
• Transplanted giant whatever it is
• Clean up cyclone fence
Misc. ornamental:
• Cut back yellow lilies (SoPo)
• Moved new spurge to btw coral bell and white lavender
• Wee...
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19 Jul 2009Ornamentals 2 1 SoPo garden , Narnia garden , Porch containers, front and back garden , Columbine, cream Seeding, and Colum...Overcast 21°C / 69°F
Found this blooming echeveria by the compost— I just stick that stuff back there as a kind of nursery and “harvest” it when I have a spot that needs a little something. This year for the first time, it has decided to bloom, most amusingly, right down the back of the resident di...
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17 Jul 2009Playing hooky (again) 5 1 Herb- Caraway Planting Out, Herb- Taragon Planting Out, Herb- Parsley, curley Planting Out, Herb- Parsley, ...Overcast 22°C / 71°F
I finally conceded my utter inability to concentrate because of the hideous amount of work in the garden that hasn’t been getting done (last real time in the garden was July 5; it’s been one 12-hour work day after another (with brief forays onto Folia to maintain my sanity!)
Since it ...
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12 Jun 2009Lovely April day 2 2 SoPo garden , Perennial Border garden , Bill's Pond and Xan's Rose Bower garden , Rose- Moby Fish Memorial ...Cloudy 20°C / 68°F
If only it was April. Rain predicted next 5 days (what else is new) so I took today off and did all the stuff I haven’t been able to do for the past month since it’s been raining and freezing cold.
The vegetables are having a hard time with the 50F overnight temps— green pepper...
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10 Jun 2009Ornamentals June week 2 Lavender Budding, Delphinium Budding, Gypsophila Budding, and SoPo gardenMilestones for the database. Otherwise I wouldn’t care! I’m a flower whore (only noted the blossoms in prior years!)Overcast 16°C / 60°F
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20 May 2009Playing hooky 3 Perennial Border garden , Narnia garden , SoPo garden , Gypsophila Planting Out, Red Star Planting Out, Swe...Sunny 29°C / 84°F
Food and pretties and bright sunshine. Work is for losers. (Says the person with no job. Well, half a job.)
Put in lots of companions and edging flowers, and some filler annuals that I got yesterday at Urhausen. A couple of beds will have to wait until I’m able to move the mis-placed tuli...
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14 May 2009Working from home 5 Iris, reblooming , Amsonia hubrichtii-blue star Planting Out, Fescue Planting Out, Savory Walk (formerly Ar...Got my freelance done by 9, don’t have to show up at the client until 11, so out to the garden! Divided one of the coral bells, put the babies in behind the new larkspur. Cleaned the campanula out of the non-blooming, reblooming iris. With any luck this will cause it to rebloom in the fa...Cloudy 16°C / 61°F
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