Life was busy, slightly insane, but has lead to wonder and new experiences. My job was crazy busy all year, but then just got crazy. Decided the...
[ATTACH] This week the clematis bloomed. I was thinking it seemed early, but I didn't realize how early until I checked out my garden here on the...
You in the UK may be familiar with Gavin Munro's artistic one of a kind orchard but I just ran across his unique craft/art. Maybe some of you...
Every thing seems to be blooming and the berries are ripening faster than I can keep up with. Our early hot spring and hotter summer has left me...
Two summers ago I bought a couple of sale jackmani clematis. They have done well and have helped provide shade to the shed doing a fairly good...
I am a sucker for little self-sufficenecy toys especially involving fire.:whistling: This is small enough and cooks fast with very little fuel it...
We are in a drought in much of the west coast. For the first time ever (30 yrs of gardening at this location) I have had volunteer tomato plants...
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I got really cheap hostas the last two years from local plant sale. Some were NOID. They all looked the same when I got them, but not any more....
:stew1::stew1:Spent the morning picking out a few plants at the annual Lewis County Master Gardeners plant sale. Usually I take $20 and that is...
The bumblebees are newly hatched and active. So much fun to see. The big lilacs are finished but the really fragrant Persian lilacs have begun...
Last year was a great year for my hydrengeas and phlox. So much so that two hydrengea and many phlox got moved to new beds or to the backs of...
I used to subscribe to a number of nature and gardening magazines, but dropped them one at a time. Now all or almost all (I still purchase an...
Finally buried the last logs from the filbert trees taken down the summer of 2013 making my second and properly done hugelkultur. My first...
Have this week off to catch up on sleep, read a few books, avoid house work and garden. Buried the last of the filbert logs creating a raised on...
We too have had an unusual winter. It is warmer, sunnier, and drier than whatever-normal-is. Someone stole our rainy, wet weather and shipped it...
We have had an unusual winter. The last five days have been the highest recorded temps for February..... since records have been kept. Our snow...
We visited the cabin this long weekend to sleep, eat and relax. Two of the state parks in the area were sold, and this is one. We hadn't visited...
Two years ago I started the clandestine removal of a large clump of snowdrops destined to be plowed under for new construction of a pet cancer...
Most of the hellebores are just in buds but a couple of plants are early bloomers. One unnamed variety is in full bloom now. I purchased the...
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