From commentor & determined landscaper La Passionara: The top photo is the mess that greeted me when I returned from a July vacation. The weeds had grown like wildfire in what had been a play area, covered by landscape fabric and mulch. It came with the house, and our grandchildren liked it for the first …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Autumnal Greetings
From master gardener & photographer Marvel: We’re winding down from a fairly mild Summer here in the Willamette Valley — middling highs, coolish nights — our cool-weather plants thrived, but the heat-loving veggies were pretty underwhelming. This last week we had a few rainy days but sunny warm weather is again forecast for next week. …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Pretty in Pink
Thanks, as always, to the magical Ozark Hillbilly for another amazing sequence: *********** What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Pond & Path
Many thanks to commentor JR in WV: The pic at the head of this post is the newly graveled path at the top, just south of the pond. I think they did a good job. This is intended to make a wheel chair / cargo dolly path from the parking area up to the front …
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: “Do Plants Have Something to Say?”
Dr. Monica Gagliano says that she has received Yoda-like advice from trees and shrubbery. In 2012, she says, an oak tree assured her that a risky grant application — proposing research on sound communication in plants — would be successful. https://t.co/EAdCFhrQRU — The New York Times (@nytimes) August 31, 2019 Without going full Direction of …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Arboreal Surprises
Friend has been complaining about finding an avocado on his lawn every day for weeks now. Why would someone keep throwing avocados in his yard? Who would do that? You guys he just realized he has an avocado tree — Mave (@MavenofHonor) August 22, 2019 I know right? When he thought they were Mystery Avocados …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Summer Harvest
What would we do for entertainment / information on a Sunday morning, if not for the ever-reliable Ozark Hillbilly? Nothing much, just a few summer harvest pics. At top: Early Harvest: This was probably our first good morning’s pickings. L to R, French Gold and French Emerite beans from Renee’s Garden, Bumblebee and Yellow Pear …
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