This weeks’ bouquet was purely accidental. We finally had a little rain and it made all the blossoms heavy and droopy of my Vanilla Strawberry hydrangea paniculate. I thought I’d help the plant along by shaking off the rain, but instead I accidentally shook off a few blossoms. This is the first year I’ve grown this plant and I know…
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this week’s bouquet
this week’s bouquet
Sweltering and sweating describes this month of July. A few cracks of thunder gives hope, but rarely produces rain. As a gardener, watching your plants suffer from the heat and lack of rain, is discouraging. Knowing your quarterly water bill is going to be between $300-$500, is no better. But you do what you must or all is lost, and…
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a 17-year project
My shed was built 17 years ago and it was always my intention to make it a fun and pretty place to play. But life got in the way on numerous occasions, mostly in the form of my daughter moving back home and using the shed to store all of her furniture. Usually when she moved out, some things were…
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this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet is made of what is fast becoming one of my favorite colors, acid green. The “Green Envy” zinnias are really stunning, despite our continuous extreme heat and lack of rain. Gathered with a couple herbs and the lettuce, which is ready to bolt, the zinnias are actually the only flower in the bouquet. I though the lettuce…
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this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet is a collection of my favorite bright colors. In flowers, I am a fan of pastels, but if I have to do bright flowers, orange, yellow, and pink is my favorite color combination. A repeat of ditch lilies this week, combined with pink yarrow and yellow echinacea. The echinacea have begun to bloom early this year and…
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