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Garden Zone: 5
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: getting dirt undermy nails and watching things grow then writing poetry about it
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: at my pc, sewing machine, or crafting areas
Occupation: seeking creative outlets for my manias, empty nested mom
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: getting dirt undermy nails and watching things grow then writing poetry about it
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: at my pc, sewing machine, or crafting areas
Occupation: seeking creative outlets for my manias, empty nested mom
poeticpeony
Member Since: 4/4/2006
Last Seen: 12 days, 19 hours ago
About poeticpeony
I love to laugh. That's for sure!
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The Jester Among Giants
I finished reading "Night Gardening" by EW Swann this drizzly morning and stood looking out my bedroom window for a time looking at my lilies out back and thinking how I could rearrange. Then I thought about putting a veggie garden between the...
Odd bloomin' time
I'm really pleasantly befuddled. My columbine and peonies are still blooming although not as much as at the beginning of their seasons. I don't remember them ever blooming this long. It must be the lack of rain beating them all down. My bee balm look...
Little hostas
I've got a nicely grown hosta plant I got from a cutting from a place I worked. Next to it this year for the first time there's about 7 or 8 leaves popped up as new plants. The leaves are all solid green, but what I liked about the flowers is their d...
purple's a fruit
My eldest son likes that phrase for some reason. But my purple irises are starting to bud and my purple columbine are blooming here and there, too. The perenniel geranium I planted at mom's a year or so ago is getting flowers on it so there's some la...
Sprouts!
I've got a couple leaves up on either a misplaced weed or a Jacob's Ladder in one of my winter sow jugs. I'm psyched now. They're staying outdoors now as the temp is in the 50's and 60's now, but I cover them at night. Barn paint test came up neg...
I finished reading "Night Gardening" by EW Swann this drizzly morning and stood looking out my bedroom window for a time looking at my lilies out back and thinking how I could rearrange. Then I thought about putting a veggie garden between the...
Odd bloomin' time
I'm really pleasantly befuddled. My columbine and peonies are still blooming although not as much as at the beginning of their seasons. I don't remember them ever blooming this long. It must be the lack of rain beating them all down. My bee balm look...
Little hostas
I've got a nicely grown hosta plant I got from a cutting from a place I worked. Next to it this year for the first time there's about 7 or 8 leaves popped up as new plants. The leaves are all solid green, but what I liked about the flowers is their d...
purple's a fruit
My eldest son likes that phrase for some reason. But my purple irises are starting to bud and my purple columbine are blooming here and there, too. The perenniel geranium I planted at mom's a year or so ago is getting flowers on it so there's some la...
Sprouts!
I've got a couple leaves up on either a misplaced weed or a Jacob's Ladder in one of my winter sow jugs. I'm psyched now. They're staying outdoors now as the temp is in the 50's and 60's now, but I cover them at night. Barn paint test came up neg...
