Archive for April, 2008

Tidying up the garden beds04.13.08

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Last week I said that it was such a nice day that I thought I’d go out and start cleaning up the front garden beds. Well I did. As much as I could anyway, given that there was still some snow on the lawn and in some of the beds:

Now do you believe [...]

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My twisted garden04.12.08

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Isn’t it funny how strange some plants look either as they are developing or after they’ve bloomed?
The photo above is of a seed head from a Hybrid Seiboldiana Clematis.
I grow several types of clematis and this is the only one with a [...]

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Signs of life in the garden04.06.08

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I’ve very pleased to announce that the snow that covered my garden beds for most of the winter is now almost gone and that there are signs of life in the form of green sprouts coming up everywhere in the garden and even my lawn.

I saw our first crocus, a white one, in a sunny [...]

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Dog fur in the garden to deter pests?04.04.08

Ever since we created our garden six years ago we noticed that we occasionally have nocturnal visitors. These visitors come in the form of very large raccoons and a variety of house or stray cats!

We have a security light at the back porch and it’s regularly triggered at least once each evening and I [...]

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