Posted in gardening on November 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This blog is supposed to be about my garden (sometimes), but I haven’t done much with my garden since July when I busted my ribs. The ribs have healed completely, but now the weather has changed and my life has changed and priorities have changed. Pretty much in that order.
And there’s this. This is new. [...]
Posted in aroids, gardening, jack-in-the-pulpit on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two years ago I blogged about my Mother’s Day gift: more plants for my garden. We went out and purchased some ariseaema (aroids) from a specialty nursery. That fall, I planted all the bulbs in the ground (including anenomes & crucuses) and Murphy dug half of them up. I think he ate them.
Of the three [...]
Posted in gardening, tagged Alder Swamp Trail, hiking on April 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It has been A Weekend. The first truly gorgeous one we’ve had since last autumn, so of course – OF COURSE – I over did it.
I don’t even know where to start. I went hiking with Don on Saturday (crawling over 4′ diameter trees that have fallen down, sometimes one on top of another: the [...]
Posted in gardening on November 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
We had a gorgeous few days and I thought I’d get some gardening out of the way before real winter sets in. The sun was in my favor, the temperature was in my favor, the ground was soaked (and so in my favor), and Murphy is out of town. Last autumn, Murphy helped me winterize [...]
Posted in gardening on September 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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It is the last full day of summer and this is my garden today.
Posted in gardening, tagged peony. peonies. tree peonies. garden fence, weeding on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend, I purchased some small garden fencing to try to protect my flower beds from Murphy. Specifically, I wanted to fence off the prayer garden where one of the aroids I planted last fall actually came up. I figured I could go to Fred Meyer & pick up on this sale they had since [...]
Posted in gardening, tagged flowers on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We went from hovering near 70 degrees (F) (21 degrees C) to a humid 95 (31) degrees. The change happened between Thursday and Friday of last week. Tonight, we are dropping back into the 70’s.
The change caused a sudden profusion of blooms in my yard -all those promises suddenly came to life. Unfortunately, the excessive [...]
Posted in dracunculus vulgaris, gardening, tagged Add new tag, bees, camellias, rhododendrons, weeding on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a wonderful warm Saturday that distracted me from all of my other responsibilities and plans. No one else was at home when I rose in the morning (except the parakeets). I looked at the loads of laundry, considered the posts I wanted to add to my blog (on homeschooling, mostly), the bills to [...]
Posted in gardening on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know: you’re floored that I even attempted, right? But here it is, the first weekend of Spring and the sun was out (unlike some parts of the country) and it was supposed to be warm. So as soon as Iwas up (which wasn’t early, I confess), I went looking for my abandoned gardening tools. [...]
Posted in gardening, tagged suicide on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I really do not have a good title for today. Don went up into the mountains to work on trails with his trail buddies while I stayed home to clean the house, shop for groceries, and prepare a meal for the family of our friend who leaped from The Bridge of the Gods last Sunday. [...]
