Gardening experience, for the most part, is accrued bit by bit, as decisions are made to do this chore before the other, plants die and we know why--or we don't--and mental notes are made about what is blooming when. But every so often, the gardener has an epiphany, a light bulb moment. These milestones represent [...]
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Five Inches of Rain Brings on Autumnal Madness
October 4, 2010 – Posted in: Garden choresFive inches of rain fell here in roughly 24 hours. After a multi-week dry spell where my constant promise to my garden was, "As soon as we get some rain, I'm going to…", it finally rained, big time. Casting an eye at the seasonal clock and acknowledging that we really should have had a frost [...]
What’s Up? Dock!
April 11, 2006 – Posted in: MiscellaneousFrom this space, roughly five feet wide by six feet deep . . . . . . I dug out all these dock roots (that's a 15-inch ruler) . . . plus this wagon full of rocks . . .plus these additional weed roots, mostly goldenrod This time of year, when the soil is saturated [...]
Signs of Spring
April 11, 2006 – Posted in: Garden chores, What's up/bloomingThe Gardener in her Garden Here I am this past Sunday transplanting Lemon Lilies (Hemerocallis flava) from the back of the Birthday Garden to the front of it. They are a very old-fashioned daylily, but not as vigorous as the Tawny Daylily (H. fulva). Although they bloom early for a daylily, they are shorter than [...]
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