Great Garden Combinations03.02.08

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The year after we landscaped our backyard and created our raised garden beds we purchased a lovely Tamukeyama cutleaf Japanese maple. As you can see from the photo above it’s branches cascade downward, it’s leaves are narrow and delicate and bright burgundy - red most of the growing season. It’s absolutely gorgeous.

It will [...]

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Flowers of Spring02.24.08

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My garden is still blanketed in a heavy coat of snow. There’s perhaps two or two and a half feet of snow across my whole backyard including the garden beds. I’m actually happy about that.
Why? Well most winters around here it snows a little bit and then it warms up, the snow melts, [...]

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Gold Flame Honeysuckle on wooden Lattice02.23.08

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This weeks theme is Wooden

I’m hoping that my Honeysuckle Gold Flame managed to survive the winter! We grow it at the side of the house, at the back entrance to the garden.

It’s in a large planter pot that’s right against the brick wall of the [...]

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Berry Delicious?01.05.08

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This weeks theme is delicious

It snowed earlier in the week and when I looked outside I couldn’t resist stepping out into the garden with my camera in tow.

I got a lot of lovely photos of snow covered plants that I’ll be posting over the [...]

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