Growing Monkshood04.15.08

It’s amazing how many plants are coming up in my garden. Every time I either look outside or go outside to look at the garden I notice how much the plants have grown or new green shoots coming up in areas that were barren the day before.
The monkshood is already making an appearance:

This is […]

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Tidying up the garden beds04.13.08

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Last week I said that it was such a nice day that I thought I’d go out and start cleaning up the front garden beds. Well I did. As much as I could anyway, given that there was still some snow on the lawn and in some of the beds:

Now do you believe […]

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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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Beautiful tasty chives02.02.08

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I love how my chives look when they are blooming. Those pretty multi-petaled flowers on long narrow stalks.
Chives usually grown in dense clumps and when they are in flower they can create quite an intense display in the garden.

Other than crocus’ and […]

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