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garden

Still Raining (damn it)

31 May 2010

Yup, it’s still rain­ing. Three bloody weeks of the driz­zle falling down my neck.
I took advan­tage of a half hour break last week­end and went for a lit­tle ram­ble about the place. Here are some pics.
The red­bud is finally bloom­ing and has a few ten­der look­ing leaves. (And some of these shots are silly and arty.)
There are a […]

Tagged as: cilantro, deer trail, honeysuckle, hot tub, iris, lilac, redbud, vine maple

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Another nice Saturday in May

15 May 2010

Tagged as: maple, peonies

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Gardening Report — March 14

16 March 2010

Last week­end the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs.
Con­tin­u­ing the theme of happy flow­er­ing shrubs and brood­ing conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) bud­dleias we’ve added more happy and more brooding.

the weep­ing cedar bed got shrubs

Start­ing with the happy, a flow­er­ing cur­rant. I’ve seen this […]

Tagged as: Chaenomeles, Chamaecyparis, cornus, currant, dogwood, juniper, juniperus, quince, ribes, taxus, thuja, whipcord, yew

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Gardening at the End of February

1 March 2010

It was a busy gar­den week­end here at Black Dog Farm. We started with a trip to Mol­baks to take advan­tage of their 30% off bare-root and b&b trees and shrubs.
We started with some­thing to go in front of the three cedars. The early white blooms of this mag­no­lia shrub will lighten up the dark […]

Tagged as: hellebore, iris, lenten rose, magnolia, mint, peony, redbud, reticulated iris, spirea, tulips

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First Garden Report

25 February 2010

Last fall we dug up and divided a lot of over­grown plants. Among them a patch of iris so thick that it took a tree saw to hack it apart.
All eight sec­tions have begun to grown nicely. I’m not sure how much bloom we’ll get this year. They’re going to look great at the back of […]

Tagged as: garden, irises

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Garden Report — October 10

11 October 2009

I took advan­tage of one last day of fine weather to do a bunch of clean up and some late sea­son plant­ing.
This is what hap­pens if you for­get and leave the fel­cos on the wall of the gar­den bed. Damn. That’ll take a cou­ple of hours to put right.
We had a lot of dam­age from last […]

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Garden Report — Sept 1

1 September 2009

A cou­ple more notes from the gar­den.
The nico­tiana in the bird bath bed con­tin­ues to thrive. This dark pur­ple vari­ety can really soak up the sun.
The last man stand­ing in the library bed has been moved to a new home on the other side of the front door. Once the roundup has done it’s job the […]

Tagged as: cypress, nicotiana

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Garden Report — August 30

30 August 2009

It’s been hot and dry for much of the sum­mer. That’s hard on the plants and I know that I’m going to have to move some things that haven’t han­dled the heat well come fall.
Mean­while I’ve been replac­ing some of the things that we lost in last winter’s deep freeze.
Rose­mary is some­thing that I regard as […]

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Garden Report

14 June 2009

The peonies are almost ready to bloom. How odd that I saw my sister’s peonies in full bloom in Pitts­burgh more than 2 weeks ago.

Tagged as: peonies

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Feeling Nesty — Part I

14 June 2009

Today we declared a scav­enger hunt day. We have a list of things we’d like to have for the house but haven’t found just the right one yet.
We were wildly suc­cess­ful.
Our last gazebo was destroyed by the snow last win­ter. We finally found a gazebo/screen house that was small enough for the spot between the […]

Tagged as: gazebo, screen house

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