Garden stuff with photos!

Written on May 19, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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Waterfalls & Tufa

Written on May 5, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

Written on May 1, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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Asiatic Lilies

Written on May 1, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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Stupid Frost

Written on April 30, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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Natural Swimming Pools

Written on April 25, 2008. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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Garden Arbor

Written on June 6, 2007. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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First Bounty

Written on June 17, 2006. Written by lorene.

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 […]

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I *heart* coleus

Written on June 4, 2006. Written by lorene.

This might sound a little weird but I love coleus. I had the most gorgeous coleus last summer that I bought at the Rutgers Gardens plant sale. I took some cuttings and tried to keep it over the winter but it died in March.
So last weekend I bought this hanging basket of this gigantic […]

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zen pond

Written on May 30, 2006. Written by lorene.

Part of my weekend was spent at my parents’ house. I finally got around to cleaning out the pond I built last year. We didn’t put a screen over it so it go clogged with leaves in the fall, and was now a breeding ground for icky stuff. So I put on some rubber boots […]

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