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My Lord Baltimore Hibiscus finally has it’s first flower. There are tons of buds all over so shortly it will be gorgeous! This flower is about 8″ in diameter. Now I’m just waiting for the Plum Crazy Hibiscus to bloom – it has buds all over it now. And for the dahlias to bloom. [...]

I was in the patio garden last night when I spotted Pinky taking a nap in a basket. I thought at first that it was Harley who’s an outdoor kitten.  Pinky is a little more than a year old but she’s still a little cat.  She’s totally scruffy and adorable.

My posts of late have been seriously lacking visual stimulation so I just went out and took some photos.
First off, yesterday my Mom and I went to Atlock Flower Farm in Somerset. If you like Coleus or Sedums or unusual plants it’s definitely a place to visit. While we were there it was pouring rain [...]

I am aching from this weekend.  Saturday I chopped down 4 forsythia bushes. I also planted some primroses and a blueberry bush. The big project was making the bamboo lattice for the Japanese garden. I bought a 100 piece bale of 3/4″ x 8′ bamboo stalks.  I made a 7′x5′ screen using Ibo knots.  They [...]

It’s my favorite part of spring -  when the lilacs start blooming. Nothing else smells so good.
I’m not a big Walt Whitman fan (I loathe most of Leaves of Grass) but lilacs blooming makes me think of the poem. Incidentally I just looked up the definition of a dooryard.
door·yard
Pronunciation:\-ˌyärd\
Function:noun
Date:circa 1764
: a yard next to the [...]

I decided to take advantage of the one non-rain day this week to divide our Asiatic lilies.  We planted 2 (or maybe 3) single plants 2 years ago that we bought at the Land-of-Evil.  This year 13 lilies came up.  I couldn’t find anything decisive online about when to divide them so I figured I’d [...]

This stupid frost has got to stop. My Mom and I bought a ton of plants last weekend at GroRite – thankfully we haven’t really planted them yet so we can just throw a tarp over them at night. However I want to plant soon, so no more frost m’kay?
I have way too many gardening/outdoor [...]

I was doing some reading on water gardening yesterday. (I am redoing our backyard pond) I came across some websites on natural swimming pools. Basically it’s a pool that doesn’t have chemicals and uses plants for filtration. Apparently this is pretty big in Europe and just starting to get going here. You still use skimmers [...]

I was playing with SketchUp last night. I bought a gardening magazine (or book as they call it since it has no ads) at costco called Easy Weekend Gardening. It’s really good and full of information, unlike a lot of gardening mags which just have pretty pictures. Anyway there’s a plan for a wood bench [...]

I got the first bounty from my garden.
A strawberry.
I planted a stawberry plant last year but it never flowered. This year I saw flowers and so I was hopeful. I went out yesterday and it has a bunch of berries so I picked the ripest.
My rose bush is blooming. Although, I’m pretty sure the rose [...]