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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2009

May 16, 2009

Spring has finally arrived at Purdville. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of my photo gallery features when I switched to this new design. You can click on each thumbnail for a larger image, but then you have to use your browser’s Back button to get back to the thumbnails.
Also blooming:

Creeping phlox
Narcissus poeticus, ‘Irish [...]

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Mud Season Color: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2009

March 15, 2009

As soon as the snow melts, before anything even blooms, there is color.If you are aware that some plants can grow underneath the snow, this is not a complete surprise, though I always marvel when it is an attractive garden plant that pulls this trick, and not just the tap-rooted and creeping weeds.

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2008

December 15, 2008

It’s not much, but it’s more than I had last year.
There are two methods for getting Christmas cactus to bloom. One way is to keep it in total darkness from 6pm to 8am starting September 1st until buds form. The second way is to keep it cool (say 53F) from mid-September to mid-October. (Source: The [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2008

November 24, 2008

The first half of November, when these photos were taken (November 12th, to be exact), was unusually mild. So even though I missed Garden Bloggers Bloom Day by a mile (well, okay, only 9 days), I’m going to post these photos anyway, so I can remember this mild November when next winter comes around.

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2008

October 15, 2008

The double colchicums, which are later blooming, are at their peak:

Colchicum autumnale ‘Alboplenum’ is very floriferous and looks fantastic growing through dark foliage.
[caption id="attachment_1271" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Here's a closeup of those colchicums in the lilac-forsythia hedge."][/caption]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2008

September 15, 2008

The growing season gets a slow enough start around here that many annuals don’t really strut their stuff until September. This is a real liability for the frost-sensitive ones like cosmos. I learned to seek out early blooming varieties because the old-fashioned ones often only had two weeks of bloom before shriveling in the first [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day August 2008

August 15, 2008

A lot of the plants from last month are still blooming, though most of them look a bit weather-beaten and are past their peak. Goldenrod, asters, and Joe Pye weed are starting in the fields. A careful inspection of the wooded hillside reveals the first flashes of red. I’ve always maintained that, for cold climate [...]

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Keeping and organizing garden records

June 27, 2008

Reading Carol’s description of her plant cataloging project got me thinking about my own efforts to organize my records. When I first started gardening, I used some large index cards to catalog all my plants. I entered the same info Carol did, but didn’t include the plant tags. On the back of each card I [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008

June 15, 2008

Poppies, peonies, and iris: the three Grandes Dames of June
In a cold climate, the gardening season is shorter and more compressed. By the time the spring flowers get going, boom! it’s summer. Consider this: on May 29th we had our last frost. The next day it hit 80F (27C), which we reckon to be summery, [...]

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Green and white: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2008

May 15, 2008

Variegated bulbous oat grass, sweet white violet, and a bit of ‘White Nancy’ lamium in the lower left corner

Because of the warm April, a lot of the daffodils that were still blooming last year are done for this year. This is the “gap” time between the early blooming spring flowers and the big June extravaganza [...]

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Small Gifts: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day April 2008

April 15, 2008

The Crocus Bank is looking glorious (click any photo to enlarge it):
But I was pleasantly surprised to see this wee thing:

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Snowdrops: When Does a Bud Become a Bloom?

March 16, 2008

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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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: February 2008

February 15, 2008

There are snowdrops under this snow

Some of you, I am sure, thought I was being overly pessimistic when I said the snowdrops sprouting in January wouldn’t be blooming in a month. As you can see above, my assessment of how things would go was pretty accurate. As a matter of fact, at this point I [...]

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