Cleomes and phlox in the garden08.17.08

Join Cleomes are strange looking flowers. They grow on long stocks and bloom as they grow. They have long spidery things that stick out all around the blooms giving them their strange look. I plant these flowers along the back edge of my garden. They grow to approximately 4 feet tall so they help screen [...]

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Posted in Blooming today, Green Thumb Sunday, Health, Health and Fitness, Photography, Summer in the Gardenwith 13 COMMENTS →



Plants I thought I’d lost were just dormant for a few years06.22.08

Join I had a little bit of a surprise this year garden wise. You see there were some plants that I thought had died last year or the year before as they never came up in the spring. Well this year, after our long snowy winter I got a surprise … the Oriental Poppy in [...]

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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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Posted in Garden Tips, Home and Lifestyle, pests, Pets and Wildlife, Recreation, The neighborhoodwith 7 COMMENTS →




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