Gardening Journals
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18 May 2013
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With the rain comes bird life...
Birds and Messmate Farm gardenClear 9°C / 48°FAccording to the trusty Field guide to the Birds of Australia by Graham Pizzey (and our interpretation) these cheeky little things are the Superb Blue Wren, as described at Wikipedia and with loads of pictures here. Not much blue colouring in the males – except the tail – but thatR...
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14
May
2013
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Bloom Day: May 2013 (... and falling behind)
Passiflora incarnata (Maypop / Native Passion Fruit) Flowering, Pineapple Guava Flowering, Banana Growing, ...Clear 23°C / 73°FStarted a new job 1.5 weeks ago (intense but cool) and am studying for comprehensive oral exams for next week and am trying to keep up in the garden. I’m doing pretty well with all of those things. My folia record-keeping and journal-reading is suffering, though… But it’s bloo...
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Native garden , sedum dasyphyllum (thick-leaf stonecrop) Growing, common daisy Blooming, stinging nettle (...
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May
2013
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Rain 11°C / 52°FI’m on foot, without my old car for a few days, and no taxi driver has the guts to face this uneven, full of holes, country road. So, walking from the hamlet toward my house (and vice versa) I can observe weeds and wild flowers growing along the side. The weather is still rainy. 1) ferns ...
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17 May 2013
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May Blooms besides the rhodies
foxglove Blooming, camas Blooming, purple and white iris Blooming, lavender Blooming, sunrose wisley pink...Light Rain 14°C / 57°FLots of other stuff is blooming too. Weeds are way ahead of me but with so much blooming its easy to ignore them.
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Native garden , laburnum Blooming, butterbur (petasites hybridous) Blooming, and meadow sage Blooming
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May
2013
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6°C / 43°FIt’s cold (6° C) and rainy also today. The vegetable garden must wait! All around, the vegetation, although late, is following its cycle. 1) laburnum 2) saponaria 3) anemoides nemorosa 4) heliantenum nummularium 5) petasites
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16 May 2013
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Mostly Cloudy 25°C / 77°FTo my sweet baby girl, Halo; she’s 4 today and coincidentally enough the cardinal eggs hatched last night. The ‘Cardinal in the camellia’ is now mama to 3 cutie babies. I am so excited to see them grow up so close to the house, the camellia is just right off the front porch! I ...
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18
May
2013
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Snow 2°C / 36°FSnow. It snowed from 1pm yesterday to about 1pm today. Stuck to the grassy areas, but it is almost melted. More of emotional mayhem than anything else. I usually plant out by now, but with it getting below freezing every night, I haven’t even started to harden off. Perhaps this week com...
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Corner garden
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May
2013
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Sunny 13°C / 55°FIt was a beautiful day, so, after working the vegetable garden, I decided to turn my attention here. It took about two hours to clean the weeds and last year’s dead fall. I pulled out lots of Creeping Charlie runners and had to use a shovel to dig out four Rose of Sharon suckers that had go...
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20
May
2013
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Yesterday I got a little ahead of the weather and planted a majority of my peppers and three tomatoes out in the Northwest Kitchen bed. My excitement for the warm temperatures was a little premature. I should’ve checked the predictions since it will be down in the mid-40s on Wednesday and T...Clear 28°C / 82°F
