Short Sedum?10.12.08

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For some reason my Sedum plants are really short this year. Usually by September or October they are well over a foot high and blooming beautifully, but this year they are only about 6 to 8 inches tall! Very strange, must be the rainy summer we had.

Did any of your plants do worse [...]

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Climbing Westerland Rose09.21.08

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Can you believe it? I think I’m actually starting to run out of new pictures for my Green Thumb Sunday posts! (it doesn’t help that I do GTS on three blogs either). I just don’t seem to have the variety of photos in stock that I normally do. Perhaps it was all [...]

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Japanese Beetles damaging the garden08.09.08

I always thought that Japanese beetle infestations were at their worst in July. Why then, are they suddenly attacking some of my roses in August?
I’ve luckily never had too much trouble with Japanese beetles. Only a few here and there each year, whereas I hear from some gardeners that their roses and other [...]

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Fringed orange tulips put on quite the display!06.01.08

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Sorry for the delay posting this weeks GTS post. My Laptop is acting up … everything I do on it takes forever … it’s very slow … so, so much for uploading new photos! Arghhh! I emptied the recycle bin and I’m currently defraging the poor notebook - hopefully that helps.
In the meantime [...]

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