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Snowdrops: When Does a Bud Become a Bloom?

March 16th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 24 Comments 

You tell me: do I have blooms for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day?

These snowdrops are the furtherest along of all that I have. They have “dropped”; that is, their buds are no longer pointing up, but have been released from their sheaths and are hanging from their pedicels.
Now these…

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The Truth About Organic Gardening: Book Review

March 11th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 9 Comments 

If you can have only one of Jeff Gillman’s books, The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line is the one to get. Don’t get me wrong, The Truth About Garden Remedies is an interesting and informative read, but it mostly tells you what doesn’t work, or what only “sorta” works. The […]

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Native Plant Resources for Central and Upstate NY

March 4th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments 

In 1878, Sherman Stowell sold to Elizabeth Brockett 30 acres of land which he had earlier purchased from George Jennings. I now live and garden with my family on some of that land, which Jennings or Stowell, or perhaps Ms. Brockett, had cleared of trees to make pasture. The forest is growing back, but it’s […]

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My first glimpse of snowdrops

December 30th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 15 Comments 

It got up to 51 F yesterday, so I took a walk to see what I could see. And what did I see, but my first glimpse of snowdrops:

What! You can’t see them? Look closer:

Oh…you didn’t think I meant snowdrop flowers, did you? For that you’ll have to wait another two-and-a-half months. Seriously.

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Colchicums are beginning to emerge

September 5th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 13 Comments 


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Peony poppies

July 31st, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 10 Comments 

My favorite pink. If you grow it, could I have seeds?

Of all the species in the Papaver genus, I think I like peony poppies the best. Perhaps you know them by a different name, for they are also called lettuce leaf poppies, bread seed poppies, and opium poppies. Yes, that opium.

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Campanula rapunculoides, The Evil Twin

July 26th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments 

Good looking but hardly innocent

I call creeping bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides) the evil twin because it looks just like ladybells, (Adenophora confusa), only it is aggressively spreading and ineradicable, and ladybells is well-behaved.
So they say.

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