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23 Jul 2011

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Drought, disease and life goes on living

herb: black cohosh Dying, flower: zinnia mix Blooming, hops: willamette Under Attack, Scarlett Bee Balm Und...

Drought, disease and life goes on living. Look at this greedy, thirsty bee. A wicked storm passed through last night, hammered the sunflowers pretty hard. The volunteer in the butterfly bed already stands nigh on 12 foot. It was toppled, but we stood her back up and staked her in hopes she’...

Cloudy 29°C / 85°F

23 Jul 2011

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Drought, disease and life goes on living

herb: black cohosh Dying, flower: zinnia mix Blooming, hops: willamette Under Attack, Scarlett Bee Balm Und...

Drought, disease and life goes on living. Look at this greedy, thirsty bee. A wicked storm passed through last night, hammered the sunflowers pretty hard. The volunteer in the butterfly bed already stands nigh on 12 foot. It was toppled, but we stood her back up and staked her in hopes she’...

Cloudy 29°C / 85°F

05 Jul 2011

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Bloom and bust

Mustard: Black Flowering, Ornamental: Hemerocallis fulva (guerilla parkway southwest) Blooming, Ornamental:...

Flowers are blooming but many things in the garden are suffering the brutal drought. Half of the plants purchased as summer fillers for “The Conversation Piece” bed are dying. Everything from Home Depot is dead or on the way out, but even the stuff from Planter’s Pallette is str...

Snow 1°C / 34°F

02 Jun 2011

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Updates to the compost circle and butterfly gardens (backed 6-2-11)

Scarlett Bee Balm Growing, Echinacea purpurea (white) Growing, Echinacea purpurea Growing, Echinacea: Doubl...

Purple Graffiti cauliflower, tomatoes transplanted. Volunteer sunflowers in center. Multiplier onions budding/ bolting The Butterfly Bed plants are maturing for the season: monarda, liatris and achillea (overgrown and need division next season), echinacea, meadowsweet. East end of the bed reserve...

Sunny 24°C / 75°F

30 Jun 2009

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End of June Updates

Squash: yellow straightneck Setting Fruit, Squash: flying saucer Established, Ornamental: Daisy, Shasta 'Al...

Weather is weird here, and the plants are very unsure what to do with it. Early in June it was in the 50’s and rainy. Established plants flourished in the wet, but seedlings and n00bs shivered in the cold, or didn’t come up at all. Then overnight we soared to the mid 90s with no rain ...

17°C / 62°F

26 Jun 2009

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June flowers blooming

Ornamental: Daisy, Shasta 'Alaska' Flowering, Scarlett Bee Balm Budding, Queen of the Prairie Flowering, Ec...

Old favorites: daisies carried from the old apartment, the showy Razzmatazz echinacea, Queen of the Prairie (Meadowsweet), Monarda (Bee Balm) and yarrow in the butterfly garden. The kids played in the sprinkler on the front lawn. :heart:

Sunny 32°C / 90°F

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