June 2010
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Monthly Garden Report for June
As with most posts, the accompanying pics for the post are posted in the following photoset, FYI.
June was a bit of a downer. It shouldn’t be. But here we are. Some things are just not working when I expected them to. For instance, the Veronica longifolia ‘Eveline’ I divided isn’t working where I left them. They are too close to the ‘Royal Velvet’ Lavender and...
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“While we all may hope the Endangered do not become the Extinct, nobody can keep...”
– Marissa Fishman from the Greenmantle Nursery website, www.greenmantlenursery.com
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Gardening En Seul
When I encounter some stunning garden that is immaculately kept, I sometimes find that the garden is a collaborative effort between someone and a partner, often a spouse. These gardens are packed to the gills and always well-staged and weed free. I am envious of these gardens for they are not loved and looked after by one, but two! and it shows. I imagine, in this circumstance, tending the garden...
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Garden Blogger's SNAFU Day
Welcome to SNAFU Day, Summer Edition! Thanks for celebrating the solstice by stopping by to indulge in my SNAFUs of Spring and early summer. I can’t think of a better way to mark the summer solstice, the longest day, than to reflect on what went wrong in the garden and to acknowledge it’s all downhill from here, a slow descent into fall and winter. Maybe my flubs will be atoned for by...
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Gardening V. Micro-farming
There’s been a whole lot available on the interwebs about growing your own veg. Many blogs are devoted to such pursuits, with the growers proudly extolling their crop as well as the ingenious ways they have developed to grow them.
But if you are gardening and only growing vegetables, are you really a gardener? Really, it seems like you’re more of a micro-farmer.
Most gardeners are...
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Garden Blogger's SNAFU Day a' comin!
Remember this meme? Many of you showed meager interest in participating; I said I’d do it again on the summer solstice. You could do a solstice post that’s all philosophical, pondering the great ponderousness of significance of the solstice and glory in the flowery abundance of your garden. On the other hand, you could take the moment to reflect on what has truly and utterly tanked up...
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Now there's an oil spill in my backyard! UNREAL! →
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An $18 Witch
I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not a fancy designer hybrid I bought from some overpriced online nursery, but it’s not just any plant either. It’s a species peony—a Paeonia mlokosewitchii, or what is otherwise known as a “Molly the Witch Peony” due to people’s inability to pronounce the latinized last name of the Polish botanist that discovered the...
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“Cultivation of [Penstemons] outside of their native ranges, or in climates...”
– Some garden humor from: Penstemons. Robert Nold, Timber Press, 1999, p. 80.
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“If an attractive plant has adjusted to the climate of a garden and is not so...”
– “Yet creating a garden presupposes that people are entitled to alter their world. At a public garden devoted exclusively to native plants, the director shared her opinions with us, piously presuming the use of lush, leafy palm trees in the sprawling desert landscapes of southern Arizona to be...
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