21st - 28th June '08Last week's Top Blog Posts on Gardening

28 Jun

takin a day off

www.idahogardener.com3 commentsSocialRank

Just finished another wild week of gardening related activities, family stuff, business stuff, etal. Pooped, I am, I tell you. One day I even had to get up for my first magazine photo shoot (Jeffie’s garden) at 4:30…

27 Jun

Hello Summer!

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Summer has arrived, bringing blooms, birds, bees and butterflies galore! There are so many things to photograph that I hardly have time to blog! The Tiger Swallowtails are the most frequent butterfly visitors to our…

Tiger Nuts

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I’m growing these in a pot on my roof.  Emma gave me tubers for these last year.  The plants look sort of like grass, but the shape the leaves grow in is very precise.The tubers of this plant are used to make…

Neither bright-eyed or bushy-tailed

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I thought my walk around the gardens would help me to feel all refreshed today. Nope, just had allergy issues-so did Bri. The Chestnut trees are dumping their catkins now. They look like fluffy rat’s tails and they…

26 Jun

Corn . . . Sweet!

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The recent storms in the midwest has created a situation where the crops grown there have suffered to the point where the harvest will be much less. What this means is the price paid for those crops has steadily risen…

23 Jun

The Soul of a Peony

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Heaven scent”M. Jules Elie” A sign that the fragrant Peony will soon burst open one of Mother Natures finest creations blossoming from the earthusing only water and sun to provide me with the pleasures of her elega…

Garden Lover's Weekend!

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High 75 FLow  64 FThe drive and entry courtyard at J. Liddon Pennock Jr.’s homeIt is difficult to leave the garden in June if only for a weekend but if one is to learn from the expertise and eye of others, it is a…

Feral Strawberries

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My feral strawberries are heavy with ripe berries right now. I call them feral because they are not the true wild strawberries you find demurely tucked into the base of trees in the woods. There were domesticated…

Tomorrow they arrive!

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My chrysanthemum seedlings are supposed to arrive tomorrow from King’s Mums and I am ready for them. -Well, almost ready. A friend suggested that I plant them in peat pots and I haven’t gotten to the nursery yet.…

22 Jun

spring song haiku for OSI

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The One Single Impression prompt this week is melody. Like the first frost, and other seasonal happenings we take note of, this is an important marker in the natural year. The chickadee’s spring song represents to…

Lavender's blue?

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Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly . No it isn’t. Or at least it can be. But it can also be white. Or yellow. Or pink. Or even lavender. I came across this lot yesterday when we took a walk in the park to enjoy the longest e…

Massive Strawberries

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Whoa! Look at the size of them! I don’t think I’ve ever managed to grow strawberries this big. I can only put it down to the sizable amount of wood ash that I dumped on them in early spring. Whatever I did - it…

Summer reading for gardeners

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With Austin on track for our hottest summer on record, I’ve sworn off any real gardening for the pleasures of garden book reading—inside, preferably under a ceiling fan with a cold Diet Dr. Pepper in my hand. Recent…

The Cassiar Highway

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Betwixt & between the breathtaking scenery of Alaska and British Columbia lies a vast expanse of nothingness called the Yukon territory.It’s here that we’ve been driving for the last few days ~ along the Cassiar Highway…

Flatbush Gardener: Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South featured in the Times

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Albemarle Road, just east of Coney Island Avenue, April 2008Tomorrow’s New York Times Real Estate section provides a brief history and profile of Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South, a block from my home:Grandest of…

Garlic Scapes

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If you grow garlic at home, you have a few harvest options. You can pick it young, before the full heads form, which is called green garlic, said to be milder in flavour. I never do that because I like to hoard as…

One year later

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Yesterday afternoon, I stopped by Urban Roots, Buffalo’s first and only co-op garden center. There were balloons, kids’ activities, and a table of snacks—€”in the evening there was a party for the…

32c in the shade….how to keep cool. Just spread out on your

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32c in the shade….how to keep cool. Just spread out on your back on the cool tiles and let the air get at your armpits and groins! Me, I’m taking Yolanda’s advice and sitting with my feet in a bowl of cold water!

How ‘Sage’ are You?

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The old English word sage means wise.So, how ’sage’ are you about sage?We know sage as a popular plant in the herb garden. It thrives in sunny, dry locations and can be harvested throughout the season.For me sage brings…

Yellow season

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Last year I was posting on a garden list when another gardener posted about how she doesn’t like yellow in her garden. I was shocked! So many of the perennials I love are yellow, it’s such a strong, happy, sunny color…

Plants I thought I’d lost were just dormant for a few years

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JoinI had a little bit of a surprise this year garden wise. You see there were some plants that I thought had died last year or the year before as they never came up in the spring. Well this year, after our long snowy…

Strange Bouquet

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It happens every year; Liz decides she wants a bouquet of cut flowers for some occasion, so she hands me a vase and asks me to go cut some flowers in the garden. A snap in a one acre garden, right?Well, let’s see. how w…

An Update on the Overachievers

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Remember The Overachievers? My littlest brother and his lovely wife, the ones who made a gorgeous new veggie garden with over 300 landscaping bricks and 10 yards of topsoil this spring? (It still makes my back hurt…

Gardening While Intoxicated: Container combos: so two seasons ago?

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Could be, but I still like mixing plants in containers. I am very tempted and intrigued by the idea of having a group of containers, each planted with a single plant. The pots would interact with each other, rather than…

Escaping along with everyone else

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I almost didn’t go to the Pine Barrens today when this was what greeted me at the entrance to the Parkway. Ughh. shore traffic. I was committed, at least until the next exit some five miles further south, but t…

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