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First Snow
We woke up this morning to a white, or at least white-ish world. There wasn't quite enough snow to really give that 'winter wonderland' feeling, but there was enough to make the woods and garden look...
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A Quick Look Back at 2018
I'm sitting in my office, staring out the window at fat white flakes drifting down and musing about the Year That Was. In many ways, not a good year. Without even touching on all the awful world news,...
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Snips and Snippets
The first day of Spring seems an appropriate one for getting this blog back on the rails! It's been a while - no big reason not to write, but no big reason to write, either, so I've let it go for...
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Mixed Feelings
Ah, Spring! The wind blows warm, the wind blows sharp, the sun shines, the sun hides, and my mood goes up and down with the weather. I'm excited to see the Snowdrops, so pristine, so white, blooming...
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Of Violets, and Ferns
The last few days in the garden have been so beautiful you just want to walk around and stare at everything. The ferns, especially, are at their most beguiling. They always start a bit later than the...
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Joy of Weeding
Oddly enough, I love to weed. First of all, I find it relaxing. That sounds odd in itself, given that when I come in after a couple of hours of weeding, I'm hot, bug-bitten, dirty and aching in more...
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I've just come in from a major weeding session. My clothes are soaked with sweat, my hair is stuck to my neck like seaweed on a boot, the knuckles on my right hand are stinging with cactus prickles,...
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A Walk In The Woods
Ah, a fine Fall morning! What better than an early walk in the woods? Rosie and I head out into the woods behind the house. It is still a bit foggy, but occasionally the sun comes out. It's not exactly...
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African Violets, Oh, My
Some very kind friends just brought me an African Violet plant. They were giving it to me to help me feel better after my first cataract surgery, which went fine, by the way, and it's a very pretty...
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Looking Back
A rare pleasure, only to be indulged in occasionally, is looking back at the gardening-year-that-was. And 2019 had a few good moments... For example, I feel a smug sense of satisfaction that I planted...
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Mind you, not everything went well in 2019. Gardening can sometimes seem like lurching from one disaster to the next: the squirrels eat all the Basil plants you put out yesterday... raccoons dig up and...
View ArticleBleah.... February
Half-way through February, which is good, but still 13 days left, which is not so good. February is the nastiest, dullest, most tedious month of the gardening year...so here are some tricks to get you...
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Snippets
Some observations from a late Spring over-shadowed by a world pandemic. ⭐ It's still cold and wintery here. In the woods,...
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Fall Is Here
Well, what can I say? It's been a summer. Hot, very dry, no rain here from early May until the end of July. Tons of bugs. Never seen so many chewed up leaves, or so many butterflies. Some kind of...
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A Small Peach
Ate my Peach crop today.At about 3:40 EST this afternoon. The sky was overcast, with high clouds crossing rapidly from the South West. About 24C. Very little wind. Don't know what the barometric...
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Weird Fungi - 1
I was surprised, amazed, delighted, astonished, gob-smacked to find a fungus I had never seen before but had been wanting to see for a long time, when I was pulling out old Goldenrod stalks this...
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Snow!
Mind you, not a lot of it!Just a dusting so far, but it's coming! I guess Hallowe'en is the right time to scare us with that news! Have a good weekend; stay safe!
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Weird Fungi - 2
It's Hallowe'en..... spooks are abroad and the woods are filled with scary things....One of them starts with what looks like an egg pushing up through the ground:Barely 2" across, it seems to have a...
View ArticleHoya, Hoya, or, The Pride That Goeth
I was taken to task, politely but quite firmly, by someone who asked why her Hoya plant wasn't blooming. Her post, on Facebook, included a very nice picture of a healthy looking Hoya carnosa.Now I've...
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Twenty Degrees!
But I still have some snow! Want some? There's a nice big pile of it where Mr. SnowBlowerMan throws the snow from three different directions so it becomes a dense icy pile and never melts until about...
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