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Garden is a poppin!
Apr 17, 2008 | 3:54 PM PST
The weather here is finally staying in the 70s, and the skies are bright and blue. Which means I'm back out in the garden, seeing how things are coming along. Just added some spirea and a few nandina along the side fence, and some purple sage, blanket flower, hollyhock mallow, and coneflower to the rest of the garden. It should look very full this year with what we've added. Everything from the last few springs have come back, starting to really flush out and bloom. A week or two ago when I was at Great Big Greenhouse and some of the other garden centers, I could hardly make up my mind about a few areas I wanted to fill in. My main focus was the back yard, but there is an area in front of our house, below the windows on the left side of the front porch that is bare from where we pulled up some boxwoods that came down with a disease. There are just so many different possibilities, particularly since our yard gets both full sun in some spots, and part shade in others, which opens the door to all kinds of plants. I gotta remember to take on one spot at a time, haha!
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Apr 17, 2008 | 3:54 PM PST
The weather here is finally staying in the 70s, and the skies are bright and blue. Which means I'm back out in the garden, seeing how things are coming along. Just added some spirea and a few nandina along the side fence, and some purple sage, blanket flower, hollyhock mallow, and coneflower to the rest of the garden. It should look very full this year with what we've added. Everything from the last few springs have come back, starting to really flush out and bloom. A week or two ago when I was at Great Big Greenhouse and some of the other garden centers, I could hardly make up my mind about a few areas I wanted to fill in. My main focus was the back yard, but there is an area in front of our house, below the windows on the left side of the front porch that is bare from where we pulled up some boxwoods that came down with a disease. There are just so many different possibilities, particularly since our yard gets both full sun in some spots, and part shade in others, which opens the door to all kinds of plants. I gotta remember to take on one spot at a time, haha!
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Apr 17, 2008 | 6:03 PM PST
We had 2 days in the 70's. Today it was in the lower 40's. I can not wait to start digging in the dirt. As of now it is too muddy. It won't stop raining. You wrote of nandina. What is that? I too need to focus on an area, but I have too many:) We just moved here, this is our 2nd summer here. Trying out new things. Alot of shade......NEED sun lol. How do you take one spot at a time...... |
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Apr 18, 2008 | 6:18 AM PST
Sounds like the place is shaping up, Dude. Some people call nandina Heavenly Bamboo. It's a pretty shrub that can get a little tall, but the red berries are beautiful in the winter. I just finished trimming some of mine back. They can get a bit invasive over the years. |
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