Gardening Journals
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13 May 2012
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Cloudy 26°C / 79°FSometimes a flood is a disaster, but after the worst drought on record, it was a welcome guest. Thursday we had a whopping 7 inches of rain—a lot more in our little ghost town that nearby areas. With the ground already saturated from the 2-3 inches we received each day since Monday, a flood...
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Back Yard - Lawn Conversion garden
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May
2012
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Windy 12°C / 54°FMost of March and April were a wash-out. The start of May didn’t look that much different but then late last Saturday….it stopped raining and the sun came out. It’s been “sunning” ever since. Should have been perfect gardening weather, but it wasn’t. Horrible,...
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09
May
2012
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About the garden and the exhibition – www.revelstokecurrent.com/2012/05/09/visiting-the-islamic-gardens-of-spain-through-pottery/Rainy 16°C / 61°F -
Back Yard - Lawn Conversion garden , Front Yard garden , Back Yard - Buddleia garden , and Back Yard - Th...
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May
2012
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Sunny 15°C / 59°FSo much fun to be able to take lots of photos for this bloom day – unlike January! I suppose I should award the “prize” to….my first dahlia [‘Arabian Night’] bloom of the year! I thought it astonishing that last year the first flower was on June 4 but that reco...
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08
May
2012
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Tonight's Harvest: A bunch of cosmic purples
Carrot 'Cosmic Purple' HarvestingStorms 28°C / 82°F… and a few strawberries and peas. After snacking, I watered the veggie garden, the recently planted ferns, the Colocasia bed, the asparagus bed, the pineapple guava and Hydrangea and small pond beds around the back patio, and the cannas and blackberry lilies along the back fence. Not my f...
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Incarvillea delavayi Blooming, Impatiens niamniamensis Blooming, Aquilegia Budding, Pak Choi Blooming, Ragg...
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May
2012
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Rainy 15°C / 59°FHow do I love £ shops? Let me count the ways. Here is another success from 99pStores. If one gets ahead in the game, and picks out boxes with noticeable things growing out of them, one will be greatly rewarded. I bought this because it was sold as a “Gloxina” , and I greatly lack in a...
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12
May
2012
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Sunny 22°C / 72°FTo all of you who wished me a good exhibition Opening, thank you. It was fun. There was lots going on in town last night but we had a good turnout to the Opening. When someone stands at the entrance to one of the galleries and says, “WOW!”, as an artist you know that you have hit the ...
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aronia Blooming, old secrets garden , small evergeen purple azalea Blooming, bistort Blooming, lilac adela...
13 May 2012
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FThe answer is 1. make sure to have lots of early spring blooms which are attractive to hoverflies 2. Enjoy the show. Doing anything else about the early spring aphid infestation disrupts the predators and will lead to problems later on. The 1st photo is of a hoverfly larvae who has gotten fat fro...
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Achillea tomentosa 'Goldie' Blooming, Penstemon digitalis 'Elfin Pink' Blooming, Lamium maculatum 'Beacon S...
15 May 2012
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Sunny 32°C / 89°FRosa ‘America’! Its a beauty and wins the bloom badge for me for that, and for the sheer number of blooms and buds! Photo below is foxgloves with my new blue ceramic ball, a Mother’s Day present to myself!
