Frontyard Gardens
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This year, the long skinny garden performed admirably. I loved my California poppies, as always, and they hardly even got all crazy overgrown. I loved my gorgeous eruptions of purple asters, and they never looked as out of place and wild-weedy as they seemed last year. This garden pretty much ...
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I am on the altar guild at my church, which means I help care for the communion silver, set up for communion, and clean up after the service. One of the things I have to do is dispose of any unused consecrated wine and bread after the service. You are supposed to reverently return them to earth,...
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My front flowerbed is about 4×5 feet (about 1.2×1.5 meters), although it’s irregularly shaped, so I’m not completely sure of it’s dimensions. It’s got one scraggly evergreen shrub and one scraggly rosebush in it, both of which are slated for removal in the spring...
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Almost the middle of November...
Rain, rain and heavy rain yesterday and the day before, and snow almost down to the township this morning, the trees all heavily covered. By mid-day it was 9C and the snow line had retreated way back up the mountain. It is like the tide coming in, forward and back, further forward and back again....
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And I thought there was nothing happening in the garden...
Later last Thursday we got snow but it didn’t lie. Since then it has been rain, rain, rain although the snow line is now only about 100 metres above the valley bottom. The Autumn crocus have been great this year, so interesting to see these leafless, delicate flowers withstanding the weathe...
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A small box was waiting at the Post Office, and as it wasn’t actually raining, the contents got planted tout suite. The earth was wet but not soggy, and not cold either. The Angelique tulips went into their pot and it got covered with the rest of the sack. I think I can manage one more sack...
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