One hundred plus blooms on Iceberg08.06.08

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Of all of my many roses (60+ varieties) my Iceberg rose at the front of my house currently has the most blooms.

Most of the other roses are either taking a break or only putting out a bloom here and there since it’s so hot these days.
The first couple of years that I [...]

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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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Lovely hyacinth01.13.08

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I love scented spring flowers, don’t you?

I believe that the Hyacinth is one of the strongest scented spring flowers. They’re lovely scent is so strong that if I have the kitchen window open just a little bit when the flowers are blooming in the back garden I can sometimes smell the scent in my [...]

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A lovely antique rose01.09.08

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Compte de Chambord is perhaps my favorite rose.

It’s an antique rose that has the most lovely rose perfume scent. The rose is quite hardy as well! It’s branches have very little winter damage in the spring and green up quickly as the weather warms.
The first flush of flowers at the [...]

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