The chives might be starting to make an appearance03.30.08

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I’m starting to get tired of posting photos of previous seasons flowers. I want to post this years flowers. Too bad there’s none up yet!

On a positive note it’s been warming up here slightly and the snow is slowly receding. I think it will take another week before it’s mostly gone, but the end [...]

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Spring tasks to get your garden growing03.28.08

It’s been a long winter
Many of us in the North experienced one of the snowiest winters that we’ve had in years. Cool temperatures are continuing even though it’s already officially spring. I’d say that this year we’re probably going to be two or three weeks behind on our normal Spring gardening tasks.

Normally the [...]

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It’s a cold spring so far03.23.08

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Well so much for the first week of Spring, huh? It’s been cold and it’s getting colder! We actually turned our furnace up half a degree yesterday because the house was just too cold.

I’m dying to see my garden beds again. So far the snows melted off a bit near the house [...]

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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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