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Forced Bulbs: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day February 2010

February 15, 2010

The bulbs that I am forcing have started to bloom. I put one hyacinth in a forcing glass into the basement on November 29th. I potted the rest up on December 5th. I brought them all up when I saw green tips emerging from the bulbs. I now realize this was too early. According to [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day January 2010

January 15, 2010

There’s Nothing Blooming Outside
The plants I saw two and a half weeks ago are buried under snow.
No Houseplants Are Blooming
The Christmas cactus that provided a bloom this time last year dropped its one and only blossom a couple of days ago.
My Forced Bulbs Aren’t Ready Yet–Neither Hyacinths
My forced hyacinth is just barely getting started:

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2009

December 15, 2009

A few Johnny-jump-ups (Viola tricolor) sport raggedly blooms amidst the patchy snow. That’s it. That’s more than I’ve had in other years. November was mild; December’s lows have been in the teens (F). Not as bitter as some winters, and violas are tough. There hasn’t been enough snow to smother them.
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Still Blooming: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2009

November 16, 2009

I was going to blather on about how this November was milder than last, but when I checked, I discovered that’s what I said last November, too! It was more typically cold in November 2007; however, the larches had more needles left at that time than they do this year. Not sure why that is.

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Colchicums: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2009

October 15, 2009

You might think after a 26F freeze there would be nothing left blooming in the garden, but you would be wrong. The colchicums continue to shoot up new blossoms. Pictured above is Colchicum autumnale ‘Album’.Early on in my colchicum acquisitions, I discovered three different varieties that, to my eye, were indistinguishable. It turns out a [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2009

September 15, 2009

Annuals
Our growing season is so compressed, that most annuals are only now looking their best. My children like to grow zinnias every year, and the bright colors of Renee’s Garden Crayon Color Zinnias really appeal to them. They like both the Cool and the Hot. (As a member of the GWA, I received the [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day August 2009

August 15, 2009

Here are a few highlights of my August garden.
I purchased a twenty-bulb mix of Oriental lilies twelve years ago, and only a few of them remain, but they are very vigorous. I know I got them twelve years ago, because I planted them the same spring my son was born. The same spring my gall [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2009

July 16, 2009

Checking back on last year’s bloom day post, I see that pretty much the same flowers are blooming, despite our thus far cool and rainy summer. Hollyhocks and bee balm being two notable exceptions: both have buds, but aren’t blooming yet. Other laggards: I have larkspur coming on, but I’m not sure it even has [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2009

June 16, 2009

To every plant, there is a season, and I find that pretty much the same plants are blooming that were blooming last year and the year before at this time. So even though I’m intoxicated with my peonies and wowed by my poppies, I’ll use this post to showcase some of the other plants that [...]

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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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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day April 2009

April 15, 2009

Looking over last year’s April Bloom Day post, I see the same things blooming at pretty much the same time. The smaller-and-earlier species crocus are on the wane, but the later-and-larger Dutch crocus are definitely making a color statement. I’m thinking about getting more of these and extending the crocus bank further towards the road [...]

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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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A Tale of Two Flowers: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day February 2009

February 16, 2009

Last week, before prices started to rise on flowering plants for Valentine’s Day, I picked up a pot of florist’s cyclamen to brighten up the kitchen–and to make sure I had a bloom for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. (Here’s the owl’s summer home.) There are hardy cyclamen that can live outdoors in the northern reaches [...]

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