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Planting around the patio
We set up two trellises last weekend, one around each back gate, for vines to grow across. In the image above a tendril from the...
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Progress in the transformation
Today I worked mostly in the rain. I'm just trying to transplant all the potted plants that should be in the front yard while we are...
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Meanwhile in the backyard
There is a lot of transplanting and other plant organizing to do in the backyard. In the meantime, I just love to poke around there...
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Digging, digging, and more digging
And what is this, you ask... Well, in an earlier post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about transplanting some of our shrubs from larger...
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Future blueberries
We've had so much rain this winter that some of the Sunshine blueberry blossoms were so soggy that they simply fell off the bushes in...
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bees!
This weekend, with the slightly warmer temperatures, and clear skies, a few bees were out and about in the garden. I was so excited to...
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Blooming in the rain
All this rain means that the flowers are still blooming. In the photo above you see the Sapphire salvia still blooming. Usually at this...
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Lambs ears?
While checking the plants in containers in the backyard, I discovered these seedlings growing in a large pot where another plant used to...
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Watching them grow...
All of our wonderful fall and winter rain is so great for the plants. I checked on the two native plant seedlings that I planted in the...
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The patio now
Now that we moved 40 potted plants to the patio here from the backyard of the house where we lived, it looks quite different from before....