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Category Archives: Life lessons in the garden
Pinky and the Pine
Once upon a time there was a hydrangea called Pinky Winky. Every summer she grew in stature and grace. The woman who planted her near the deck admired how the flowers started white and then went through many subtle variations … Continue reading
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Fred the Assassin
I’m small. It’s not my fault. I was designed this way. Petite and tender green like the emerging shoots of plants in spring, touched by delicate pink. Pretty but deadly, I’m the deceiver, the destroyer. I eradicate. My brothers and … Continue reading
A Little Color Problem
The new daylilies “Daring Deception” go much better with the Heuchera “Caramel” than I envisioned but the hydrangeas “Let’s Dance, Moonlight” clash a bit. I thought I needed to add something; something neutral like a white would be the safe choice, but … Continue reading
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Spring is Separation
This is the small beginning of my rhododendron walk! I’ve been wanting to fill in between the trees on the woods side with these great flowering and winter-green plants for so long and this is my (mostly symbolic) beginning. … Continue reading
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Spring is a Promise
So the snow has been melted for a few weeks now. Friday was warm to the point where I worked up a sweat in a very short time. Part of the day was a gift from a cursed source; my … Continue reading
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Sandy and Work in Progress
We were very fortunate that Sandy only gave us a glancing blow, however, I have my own little garden saga of destruction and hopefully next summer, renewal. I thought that I and my all of neighbors had come through pretty much unscathed … Continue reading
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Showoff
A mostly mousy brown moth/butterfly found just the right flower to complement her subtle coloring, dahlia Pooh.
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Dahlia “Pooh”
The colors of this collarette dahlia remind me of when I was a child and dad bought home color chips to pick out colors for his potentially two-toned Cadilac. We were actually dirt poor at the time as we lived … Continue reading
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I MissToads
no spray signs (Dear State of Massachusetts, If I had to post these cheesy paper plate signs in order to avoid getting sprayed, you really didn’t think that I’d stop at just “no spray”, did you?) I miss toads. … Continue reading
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Strawberries Must Die
I’ve been ignoring the wild strawberries that grow here and there in some of the wilder spots in my yard for years, but they are taking over. They love to leap across my mulch with their runners and establish whole … Continue reading
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Paris Agricultural Salon and a Political Encounter
The thing is, I don’t like crowds. And the Paris Agricultural Salon ‘s web site says that I was one of 681,213 visitors; it felt like most of them were there on the same day I visited. One of the … Continue reading
Seriously!
On hearing about my last week, a few people have said they couldn’t imagine being five days without power. For me, this was just one day more than our power outage in the ice storm of 2008, but yeah, before … Continue reading
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Counter half full
Although the water spray that’s triggered by a motion detector seems to have stopped the deer damage in the garden, the chipmunks have eaten more of my tomatoes than I have. I was feeling a bit deprived as I looked … Continue reading
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He’s fat enough already
I’d seen this mother/child drama before I went to work on Friday but baby was just passively hanging on the support for the suet feeder. While I was at work he’s learned how to get his own suet but mama … Continue reading
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Beginner’s luck or persistence?
I’ve read on some reputable blogs that beans shouldn’t be started inside because they don’t like their roots to be disturbed. With respect, I have been doing it for years. I have problems with critters, and should also probably credit … Continue reading
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Always something to look at
I am not a tidy gardener and always experimenting so I almost never have a perfect picture. But there is always something to look at. I love the color combination of the chartruese hosta and the dicentra. The blue hosta … Continue reading
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Endicott Pear Tree Visit
It was incredible to me that a hundred or more people would all show up on a cold, rainy week night in April to visit an old tree. It wasn’t the location that bought them. Although the hill, that slops … Continue reading
LED Lights to feed the world
Update 10/13/11. The Boston Globe link no longer works but here is an ABC link that works today. Or use the search term as described below. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=13346712 I’m sharing a link to a Boston Globe version of an AP release … Continue reading
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San Francisco Bloomin Stuff
I was in San Francisco last week at a big Information Security Conference. What I learned is that between the movement of applications to “the cloud” and the proliferation of different kinds of personal, mobile devices, we are losing what … Continue reading
The wisdom of buying locally
Reading some interesting discussion about the local foods movement, pro and cons. An article where economists discuss some of the issues with over-doing it, based on well recognized economic principles http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2011/LuskNorwoodlocavore.html And another study that counters that to some extent. … Continue reading
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