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Black Plants: Book Review

February 9, 2010

Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden by Paul Bonine is the kind of book that drives me wild. Seventy-five gorgeous plants and over half of them are not hardy for me. Wait. Maybe it’s just that half of the ones I want to grow aren’t hardy for me. I actually didn’t go through [...]

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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 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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Sowing pansies, lisianthus and geraniums in the greenhouse

January 12, 2003

Kathy, Thank you for the advice about Fraser’s. And the hepaticas are unbelievable! Have spent the last few days trying to cover crocus poking through the ground all around the greenhouse. Too soon, too soon! And the temps are supposed to plunge in the next few days. As I plant and sow in the signs [...]

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