tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14953239913075375192024-03-13T01:12:05.375-07:00Weeding on the Wild SideReplacing weeds with successful plantsHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773149110503024929noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495323991307537519.post-71847993623824956782021-02-15T21:36:00.000-08:002021-02-15T21:36:12.580-08:00These Are a Few of my Favorite FruitsI've been gardening here in the Pacific Northwest for over 30 years, and also gardened in other parts of the country with different climates, so I was not familiar with varieties that would do well here and had to research new varieties. I planted several apples, my favorite is one named Liberty (from spraying!). She lives up to her name wonderfully, unlike Freedom, which eventually became diseased and had to be cut down. Liberty is late, which helps the pollinators to be around when she is blooming, and makes applesauce work come in the fall when I have more time. Liberty is loaded with wonderful apples, which are hard and not the best fresh apples but make delightful applesauce with exquisite flavor and texture. <div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">William's Pride blooms close to Liberty in time, and ripens close to the same time, it is a hard apple and also has wonderful flavor when cooked for applesauce, the flavor seems to complement Liberty when cooked together.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ3fUiLSTUo6wm89z0u-kE93YEHq-yy7s3uAy598p8R-XKeEtnMFiCR2svFUL06xu3VQ6xD4XZJYjmNdj4ZiTvoqAUNI6JEMkqmbAaTx8iTtd0BUvKPSmtHmseOuwREJkmnvPUVJpDQA/s551/Liberty+20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="478" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ3fUiLSTUo6wm89z0u-kE93YEHq-yy7s3uAy598p8R-XKeEtnMFiCR2svFUL06xu3VQ6xD4XZJYjmNdj4ZiTvoqAUNI6JEMkqmbAaTx8iTtd0BUvKPSmtHmseOuwREJkmnvPUVJpDQA/w335-h337/Liberty+20.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>An apple that I love for fresh eating is the yellow apple 'Greensleeves". 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I didn't find a photo of the fruit, just the tree, which has been the only apple I have been able to keep pruned to a size easy to pick.<div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc3vStnxpUIJuvlLnc5v94X_oqD-Y2ultUaKaE4eLo3mnM3Ou4t0RDhCQKsPDPzmm1_n8RZy4KVkr5X55UzZuvqEszUy0DwemCL8_fOmeLl3udZK_7UM28m607RhOH1wjLwc-6ogyLfk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="238" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc3vStnxpUIJuvlLnc5v94X_oqD-Y2ultUaKaE4eLo3mnM3Ou4t0RDhCQKsPDPzmm1_n8RZy4KVkr5X55UzZuvqEszUy0DwemCL8_fOmeLl3udZK_7UM28m607RhOH1wjLwc-6ogyLfk/" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Grapes have done really well here too, and the vines go crazy and try to grow up into nearby trees. The variety that makes the most grapes is the purple Glenora, sweet and seedless.</div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLw-4SfDC1BDTBSTp3QnHf324r8Wt9bs9uKfFQaWgxNerl_MRPQg3osX4x2iT3cQFXRcSY5OFcpUN4BbXIY2KxHOvVb07v64h4EJZRqL-BY0Ayf2SVLxt7dEt4OYYJexEOGu-XwYIMtk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="387" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLw-4SfDC1BDTBSTp3QnHf324r8Wt9bs9uKfFQaWgxNerl_MRPQg3osX4x2iT3cQFXRcSY5OFcpUN4BbXIY2KxHOvVb07v64h4EJZRqL-BY0Ayf2SVLxt7dEt4OYYJexEOGu-XwYIMtk/w284-h410/image.png" width="284" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some other favorite fruits are blueberries, I tried to get a wide range of ripening times so there would be a long season of berries. 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They are a very dark purplish blue and while my husband likes to eat them on his cereal, I prefer them cooked and sweetened with stevia, to make gelatin, they have a rich taste, obviously healthy. My grandkids like them as gelatin, too. The bushes are much larger than the catalogs say they should be, 12' or more tall, I have to pick them on a ladder inside of the bush. I have to be sure not to wait too late, or the birds will come and clean them all out. Here they are still green. They are borne on stems hanging from a central clump so that makes them easy to break off and put the whole clump in the bag. 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I know you have not see any new posts from me for months, I got burned out on some aspects of having a blog, so this may even be my last blog post. What I am doing now is to have a Facebook Page which I welcome you to visit, and if you have a FB page or are on FB let me know if you want to friend me-<br />
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I show glimpses of my garden on my FB page but just small bits and pieces, and also I don't have to spend a lot of time on the web to do it so it frees up my time and keeps me from spending as much time staring at a computer. I'm sorry not to be visiting all my friends from blogs all over the world, but part of it is that I developed a macular degeneration problem in my peripheral vision and want to do less looking at computer screens for whatever impact they have. I have been getting Avastin intravitreal injections to treat the bleeder that was causing a blind spot. The Retinal Specialist told me I could possibly stop getting the injections at 16 weeks apart. But I read about some essential oils on the internet that can increase circulation to the retina, so I started putting them on my face some time ago, at around the 10-week shot interval. Care must be taken to put the oils just on the actual cheekbone and above the eyebrows, avoiding the eyelids. I do it in early evening so they are absorbed by bedtime. Twice at the beginning when applied late I inadvertently rubbed some in my eye in the middle of the night. Milk (or oil) on a paper towel can relieve the burning. Anyway the first time I got a shot after starting the oils, I had applied them the night before and the I had proof the oils were getting into my actual eye fluid since they dispersed the shot fluid and I saw spangles all over the room. When the nurse held up her fingers to check afterward, I could barely see them. The next time I went in I stopped the oils a week before and that didn't happen, but my scans which had shown the damaged area as gold, were suddenly purple instead, and my scans started improving more and more with every shot. I found 2-3 days were enough time to discontinue the oils before the shot. So my last visit at 14 weeks the RS told me I could discontinue the shots, and I just have to go in after 16 weeks to have a repeat dye test that shows my retinal circulation to check that it is stable. So if I have been keeping you in suspense, the 3 oils are Frankincense, Cypress, and Helichrysum. I just buy inexpensive brands like Aura Cacia, Nature's Alchemy, Now, and recently other essential oils from Miracle Botanicals and Plant Therapy, I don't know if the expensive oils would have any better results, or not.<br />
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To return to gardening, I have extremely vigorous grapevines that ramble great distances, and I wanted to let them grow across the entrance to one of my beds, which are all surrounded with welded wire fencing with extensions of bamboo and netting to keep the deer out. So I made a double rectangle of PVC pipe to make a little tunnel and the grapevines are supported across the top. For some reason they LOVE this and respond by making an extreme number of grape clusters. This grape is the seedless variety Glenora-<br />
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I tried tying up some vines in other places to see if I could encourage them, it seems to be working. </div>
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I'm also having a bumper crop of Aronia this year, the plants are supposed to get 3-6' tall, 1-2 meters, but mine are way beyond that at 20+ years old. Plants tend to turn into monsters up here in the Pacific Northwest. The ladder next to the 2 Aronia shrubs is 7' tall, 1.3 m tall. </div>
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Aronia is borne in clusters of berries called pomes, like apples, and are in the Rose family. They are a little astringent and not very sweet, though my son will eat them raw. The remarkable thing about them is that they are the #1 North American native fruit for high antioxidant content, also known as ORAC value, and about #3 in the world. I have tried them raw in a You Tube recipe for a smoothie with almond milk and it was tasty. Usually I have made Aronia gelatin (recipe)- </div>
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Pour 2 cups of cold water on 1/3 cup beef gelatin powder and stir fast</div>
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Everyone seems to like it, the taste is reminiscent of cherries or blackberries or ?. But I have such a bumper crop this year I am learning to make juice instead- cook and strain, sweeten with Stevia. Then I store it in the refrigerator in a quart canning jar, and to use, I pour a glass 1/2 full then fill with water or club soda for a great drink. </div>
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The 2 shrubs tend to send out branches at a low angle so have made a grand snarl, and I had trouble picking them last year, especially up at the top, so I pruned out a lot of branches and this year I am able to get a ladder into most of it and get up to the top to pick, then I shorten the upper branches to hopefully make it lower next year. </div>
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Join Eileen to see more critters. My critters are Cinnabar Moth caterpillars. They are my favorite insect diversion and I watch over them and move them if the Tansy Ragwort plants they are on get eaten to the point they have nothing left to eat. They were imported to control Tansy Ragwort but they are gone after a while and the Ragwort persists and keeps blooming so I have to cut off the flowers and rip out the plants anyway. I think their stripes are adorable, especially when they are disturbed and roll up, looking like candy. </div>
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Welcome to my belated Garden Blogger's Bloom Day post! To see what is blooming around the world check out hostess Carol's <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2018/02/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-february-2018.html" target="_blank">blog</a>. Here are some flowers blooming Feb. 18 in my garden, I was amazed and delighted to finally get a bloom on my variegated Camellia japonica 'Taiyo', which I bought from the Collector's Nursery as a very small plant in 2002, and just had it's first flowers. It has lovely variegated leaves, like creamy bird's feet, and has slowly been growing in front of my husband's shop where it is seldom watered, but perseveres.<br />
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I was especially surprised to see the flower now since it is winter and time for the Camellia sasanqua's to bloom, my large pink Camellia japonica blooms in early spring. Apple Blossom bloomed heavily in the early winter, as it has for several years, but Yuletide had it's first couple of flowers last year and managed to have a few more this year, though in February. <br />
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We had over a foot of snow in January, and every plant in the yard that could be bent, snapped, or felled did so. Some of my ~20 years old fruit trees fell over from the ground.<br />
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This was the only original fruit tree when we bought the house so older than 23 years, it fell on a couple of other trees as well. I'm considering trying to top it, stand it back up, stake it, and see if it survives. Three more large apples fell over as well. This was a wonderful early apple, William's Pride from the PR (Purdue) series. Because of fruiting so early, it missed out on the codling moths and apple maggots that infest fruit that ripens later. I'm also going to try topping it and standing it up but it is very massive. </div>
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Meanwhile, my early indoor seedling starting is underway. I planted tomato seeds and have them transplanted into individual pots. Some are heirlooms I have grown before- Black Pear, Lucky Cross (luscious 1# fruity-flavored bicolors, somewhat bumpy or prone to splitting), and Cherokee Purple. New ones are the Italian large pear-shaped Red Pear Gransasso, hopefully making a fragrant sauce, and bonus seeds- Cougar Red and Arbuznyi. Then I'm experimenting with some new tomato strains with anthocyanin pigments bred into them because of their health properties in blueberries and aronia. So the tomatoes are dark purple or with purple shoulders. I'm growing Adelaide Festival, Clackamas Blueberry (developed in my neck of the woods, and supposedly they keep making fruit long into the fall instead of quitting like a lot of tomatoes), and also Indigo Rose. </div>
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My grow shelf set-up is my design- metal shelves with 3 levels, with 4' fluorescent fixtures tied under the first and second shelves. Two of the standard 10" x 20" flats fit on each shelf, and hold 36 2 1/4" square rose pots each. Last year I added LED grow lights on the ends which make plants grow like they are on steroids.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">And now a vase for In A Vase On Monday, hosted by Cathy, t</span><span style="text-align: justify;">his is a thrown vase I made long ago, and a basket made by my youngest daughter. The dried arrangement is made of a sprig of Lunaria, Money Plant; and a similar plant with the same kind of pod structure but smaller, called Fibigia clypeata, which has yellow flowers (</span>http://weedingonthewildside.blogspot.com/2011/06/home-grown-successes.html third photo down from the top)<span style="text-align: justify;">. You can see they are smaller in the close-up. They are fuzzy and stiff and I had to soak them to soften them up in order to peel off the outer layer. There are also radish pods and mystery small seed pods in long narrow strips.</span><br />
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What are your favorite container garden plants? For several years, instead of buying starts to plant my containers, I've been trying out seed-grown plants or cuttings. Here are some favorites this year for my deck garden. If you would like to vote for your favorite, either of those pictured or one you grow yourself, leave your selection in your comment.<br />
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Browallia speciosa self-sows readily, in fact the seeds fall into my containers and come up the next year as a surprise. They are very long blooming and make a cascade of blue-purple, sorry, they look washed out when photographed-<br />
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Another very delightful container flower is the tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, it would be an annual here but as a container plant I can take it indoors in the fall to overwinter, this is its third summer outdoors! I am so impressed with it, every branch is continually in bloom like a candelabra!<br />
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And finally Cuphea ignea, which looks like tiny glowing orange cigars, small plants but compact and well-branched, continually covered with lots of long-lasting flowers. It makes me smile. The flowers don't even get fuzzy and puff up like the other two before they burst open to scatter their seeds, which makes it hard to save seed-</div>
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Meanwhile, I had to make use of some of the Goldenrods blooming now for <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/in-a-vase-on-monday-not-only-but-also/" target="_blank">In A Vase On Monday</a>. Join hostess Cathy in her challenge to find some flowers to plonk in a vase, for your enjoyment. Goldenrod makes great golden fall color in spikes of tiny star-like flowers, with a faint anise-like fragrance. Here is a mixture of my three stalwart varieties, Solidago 'Fireworks', 'Golden Fleece', and 'Solar Cascade'. I added some red clover for an accent. After enjoying the vase for a while, I cut the stems off and dried the flowers for tea-<br />
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I bought 6 varieties three years ago, but the small ones, Solidago 'Laurin' and 'Little Lemon', did not return, as well as the more fragrant S. odora. But I am happy to enjoy the 3 that do well.<br />
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What fall flowers can you find to put in a vase? Have you grown plants for planters? -Hannah<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hot summer weather seemed to end early this year with some cool early rainy days, after actually a pretty mild summer, though a few warm days remain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sweet peas are still blooming so I wanted some for In A Vase On Monday, hosted by Cathy. I'm pleased they are doing well my first year in a long time growing them, some Royal Family and some Old Spice mixes, in a little thrift store vase-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went around and looked for what else was still blooming. I found a big spray of rose Clothilde Soupert which is a late bloomer well into fall and combined it with some Scabiosa atropurpurea I grew from seed this year, I was surprised they are blooming well. Also I added some early-blooming heather, Geranium oxonianum 'Claridge Druce', Aster, Anemone japonica, Sedum, Browallia americana, and Ageratum. And for foliage I cut some dwarf bamboo, and some Osmanthus heterophyllum variegatum.</span><br />
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I used one of my new batch of poured ceramic vases, I added the flowers from another mold. The glazes are called shimmer but just added flecks of metallic silver so they fell a little short for me.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile in the edible garden, the beans are doing well. I've been cooking a lot of the regular pole beans like Zelma Zesta, </span><span style="font-size: large;">a long red-streaked pole bean, meaty, early, and productive; </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anellino Giallo, a yellow Italian shrimp bean (curved), tender when full of beans; </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jembo Polish, a large flat bean with a distinctive brown swirl on large flat beans, productive, tender at large sizes;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also growing well are some beans for dry bean use, like </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ojo de Cabra,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mayflower, Turkey Craw, and since the Motorcyclist objects to the tough pods of the runner beans, this year I'm mostly picking and using them as shellies. The hummingbirds are very appreciative of the red flowers of the runner beans, as well as honeysuckle, and even the tropical milkweed flower on my deck, which has bloomed non-stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm also harvesting the usual cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, crookneck squash, collards, kale, and hopefully some eggplant and okra. I don't like having to add sugar to food so this year have been having fun throwing the abundant rhubarb into mixed vegetable soup and treating it like a vegetable. It tends to disappear in the soup and just adds some tart flavor and nice texture. What late summer vegetables are you enjoying? Hannah</span><br />
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For <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/in-a-vase-on-monday-yes-milady-the-chinese-imposter/" target="_blank">In a Vase on Monday</a>, answering hostess Cathy's challenge to find some flowers to plonk in a vase, I got rather carried away after not posting for a while, since I was inspired by some new vases I just poured and fired, this one I had to deconstruct and rearrange upside down to experiment with adding holes in the top, which had been the bottom, so I could play around with using them for arrangements. I poured glaze in through the holes for the inside so it worked out OK.<br />
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I tried one vase of short stems of some hot summer colors, with Crocosmia 'montbretia', Coreopsis, Oxeye daisy, and deep magenta Lychnis coronaria-</div>
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Then I tried a fluffy arrangement of Monarda 'Panorama', I liked the effect with the short fluffy flowers in the holes. I was surprised that in this photo the flower centers seem to match the heirloom silver glaze-</div>
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I'm drying some flowers and leaves to try them as a tea.<br />
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I couldn't resist another vase of some sizzling summer colors- ground cover rose Red Ribbons has a lovely ripple to the petals and this is all one sizzling spray; Crocosmia 'montbretia'; and a peachy cactus Dahlia-</div>
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Hard to see but fitting the color palette are small flowers of Gaillardia 'Sundance' and Coreopsis 'Route 66'-<br />
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And another vase with the peachy Dahlias, a gladiolus, and Crocosmia <span style="text-align: center;">'montbretia'</span>-<br />
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I succeeded in getting earlier bloom from my Dahlia which I leave in the ground over the winter this year after very late October bloom last year, by inverting a plastic bin over the plant during the winter, though the other Dahlia of equal size last year that I treated the same way did not respond well but had very few stems come up this year and is still quite small.<br />
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And to show that my main emphasis in gardening is actually fruits and vegetables, I will throw in a photo of some of my pears that are especially abundant this year-<br />
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Summer is flitting by, I hope you are enjoying lots of flowers and fruits as well. Hannah<br />
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I'm posting again, I had my first eye injection treatment of Avastin to hopefully shrink the erratic blood vessel in my eye that is causing the vision problem. No change yet, but not as bad as I anticipated, and I did read a lot of good experiences by other patients.<br />
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A few different birds have been visiting my deck for seeds. One I've seen in the neighborhood but not on the deck is the darling bright American Goldfinch, so cute-<br />
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Another that at first seemed like a Spotted Towhee but more colorful is the Black-Headed Grosbeak-<br />
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I love those magnificent Old Garden Rose Sombreuil blooms-<br />
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Next Clematis to bloom is 'Sugar Candy', who has outdone herself in long bloom this year-</div>
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Clematis jackmanii is blooming now, I find it curious that the petal number ranges from 4 to 6-<br />
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The wonderful Clematis viticella 'Venosa Violacea' has the longest bloom season of them all-</div>
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An earlier vase of flowers has the pink rose Monsieur Tillier, a cerise Achillea, small purple clusters of Ceanothus 'Victoria', and some frothy chartreuse flowers of Lady's Mantle-</div>
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For In A Vase On Monday this week, to answer hostess Cathy's challenge to find flowers to plonk in a vase, I used yellow 'Julia Child', which has a marvelous myrrh fragrance; the fantastic red climber 'Dublin Bay' which is long-lasting in the vase or on the plant; the very large 'Apricot Nectar'; the little and abundant white 'Madame Plantier'; and foliage of Lonicera nitida.<br />
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My main gardening interest is actually my vegetables, I've been picking lots of edible-podded snap peas, and am just starting to pick some fava beans. Strawberries have been tapering off and some raspberries and blueberries are ripening. What delightful edibles are gracing your garden?<br />
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I'm sad to have the summer solstice pass, since the days start getting shorter again. My latest night before to come in from the garden was 9:49pm but tonight it was 9:24pm. I'm close to getting all the vegetable beds planted though, with lots of beans.some pole beans are about at the shoulder level in their race for the top of the trellis, and there are red flowers about to bloom on some of the runner beans. The hummingbirds will be happy. Hannah<br />
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Welcome to my blog, May is living up to all expectations for glorious flowering, indeed many flowers are 2-3 weeks early, like the roses. So the easiest flowers to choose today for my Monday vase for the addictive meme, with the challenge to find flowers in your garden to plonk into a vase, hosted by Cathy of <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/in-a-vase-on-monday-quarter-pint-size/" target="_blank">Rambling in the Garden</a>, are of course roses. 15 or so years ago I collected a lot of Old Garden Roses (OGRs), from various sellers of own-root roses, including the fabulous Sequoia Nursery owned by Ralph Moore, hybridizer as well, who ran his nursery until over 100 years of age, and who had an amazing variety. I also collected a lot of minis when Justice Roses went out of business. I'm sad to say that I lost most of the mini's, I think rabbits ate many of them down to nubs in the winter. For a while they made a delightful miniature rose garden. <br />
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For my first vase I am using a newer rose, the very fragrant Scentimental, striped roses were another collection of mine. Also newer Dublin Bay, a gorgeous deep red climber which also lasts a long time on the plant or in a vase but mine has no fragrance. It was a slow grower but is big now. Also in the vase is an OGR, Reve d'or, which gets paler as it ages. The vase is Delft, not very visible, from a garage sale-<br />
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My second vase includes a red Rhododendron, another major May-blooming species. The red ones bloom last and are not as vigorous for some reason, but are also planted in poor shady locations. The vase is one passed on from my mother-in-law, with its own rose decorations. Also in the vase are the fragrant OGR Hybrid Perpetual Baronne Prevost- the larger bloom with the quartered pattern, and the very prolific but rather short-lived in a vase Old Tea Monsieur Tillier, which lives up to its reputation of being very tough flourishing in spite of being planted on our inhospitable front bank-</div>
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Another unbelievably vigorous and productive bloomer is Madame Plantier, an Alba hybrid. She was hard to deal with but The Motorcyclist built me a large trellis enclosure for her with some cut tree branches that does well to hold the canes up. <br />
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Another tough rose that manages to flourish on my unwatered front bank is the OGR Rambler Celine Forestier, not only covered with small flowers now but one that will repeat bloom occasionally all the way to fall. The buds start out a lovely peach color and fade to white-<br />
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Here in a charming little vase from the thrift store-<br />
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The vase makes me think of weddings, so I am including a photo of my son when he was in my sister's wedding at the age of 5, I made his vest, bow tie and short pants-<br />
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He is now a computer programmer and has 5 kids ages 4-13.</div>
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Well, in closing I have to say that I've learned the hard way that the blue light of computer screens and TV's has a detrimental effect on the back of the eye, and have developed some problems related to Age Related Macular Degeneration, so an obvious thing I can do to help slow down or stop this process is to do less on my computer, though I try to use UVEX golden yellow glasses over my reading glasses to filter out the blue light, when I remember to use them. Anyway the result is that I am going to drop out of regular participation in the weekly blogging world, though it has been fun to have a creative outlet, and meet so many other fun bloggers. To use my time otherwise I'm trying to get back into regularly playing my keyboard and even hopefully get better as an accompanist. My paternal grandmother Edith was my childhood inspiration, she was a concert caliber performer of Chopin and Beethoven music, which I got to enjoy as a child when she visited. She was my inspiration to play the piano. She was also a church organist and taught music lessons, in fact she was walking home from her bus stop from teaching a lesson on the last day of her life when she fell and had a stroke and passed on at around 81, what a way to go. She is probably making beautiful music in Heaven, one of my fond memories is playing my violin with her to the song, Jerusalem, the Holy City. So have fun out there in blogging world, I appreciate all of you who have followed me and faithfully visited and commented here, I will miss you, and perhaps come back to write occasionally. -Hannah</div>
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It seems procrastination can have some perks. Last summer I put my Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) in a sunnier place than usual and it surprised me with some very big strapping leaves. I brought it indoors for the winter but left it by my south-facing sliding glass door and forgot about it until after Christmas, so it got put in the dark late. But I did get it out and it rewarded me with 2 bloom stalks instead of one. So for <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/in-a-vase-on-monday-fiery-spirit/" target="_blank">In A Vase On Monday</a>, hosted by Cathy who challenges us to find flowers to decorate our homes, I posed it behind a Christmas cactus also with unseaonably late second blooms-<br />
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I also posed a pair from my duck collection and a Chinese boat I made with them, as though floating in the arms of the plants. <br />
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The Amaryllis is very Christmasy, but there was a lot going on then anyway. It is fun to have it bloom now.</div>
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Another unusual bloom is from one of 5 Streptocarpus plants I actually grew from seed this year. The seeds were very tiny, pelleted, and I was amazed that they actually sprouted, minute little green specks that grew and eventually all got transplanted into their own pots. I was amazed to see a bloom already on one, and it proceeded to have one flower, which was fading when two more bloomed-</div>
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It seems the Gallicas have rather floppy and uncooperative stems, thus this petulant pose-<br />
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Everything seems to be bursting into bloom at the same time, those fabulous May flowers.<br />
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My self-proclaimed Queen of my rose garden, Zephirine Drouhin, was first to bloom as usual, and soon covered herself with flowers-<br />
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So for my first vase for In A Vase On Monday, finding some lovely flowers to put in a vase, I had to use some Zephirine Drouhin and the matching Rhododendron-<br />
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This Rhododendron is a remarkable one, instead of the usual rounded or tree form, it makes a large triangle blooming all the way to the ground-</div>
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The many Rhododendrons were all original and already large when we bought the house 22 years ago. I enjoy trying to prune the centers of some that are suitable to interesting interiors like this one-</div>
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Irises are also blooming up a storm, especially the Siberian irises with their exuberance-</div>
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I'm amazed by the fancy patterns below the throats of the Siberian irises-</div>
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So a second vase features some older yellow and white irises and some Siberian purple irises, and a red-purple Rhododendron-</div>
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Champney's Pink Cluster is overwhelming its trellis which is tall enough to walk under-</div>
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When photographing my Japanese Maples for Foliage Follow-up last month, I took notice of their tiny flowers, which I usually overlook. <br />
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I even cut some flowers and foliage, which make an unseasonable fall impression-</div>
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The flowers are now forming seed pods, and the formerly orange-tinged Amber Ghost has become a paler shade of white.</div>
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Adding to my list of flowering carpets, a favorite little lawn flower is Bellis perennis, which I obtained by digging up a few from a parking lot soon to be paved.</div>
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But does even better on the inhospitable gravel driveway where it shines for its drought tolerance-<br />
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Another carpet that basically only flowers a little in spring, but is a marvelously tough ground cover for dry shade and spreads wonderfully, always looking neat, is hardy Geranium macrorrhizum-</div>
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All this came from a single plant that spread all by itself, under a Bigleaf Maple! Never gets watered through our dry season! It will not do as well in sun.</div>
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And now for my Monday vase, answering Cathy's challenge to find flowers for a vase to enjoy, my Lily of the Valleys have started to bloom, and smell wonderful, so I couldn't resist plonking some in a vase with some remaining Forget-Me-Nots and a few of those rascally Herb Roberts.</div>
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I also, while out weeding every day, notice some very tiny "weed" flowers, which have a mesmerizing effect on me and compelled me to make a tiny vase, compared also with the larger tame version of the Forget-Me-Nots. Some members of the Borage family have mystical powers to spread themselves far and wide.</div>
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The plate in this photo is from my original china my parents gave me when I got married, It is Lenox 'Melissa'. My father's grandmother was a Lenox, but the business was run by male members of the family so was not part of his inheritance. Lenox is my father's middle name. A Yankee from New Jersey married a Southern belle from South Carolina, my mother, imagine that. But the strange part is that both of their fathers were born in South Carolina.</div>
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The tiny flashes of deep blue are pretty, I haven't noticed any bad effects from this one, not as vigorous or invasive in the lawn-<br />
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Another extremely invasive flowering carpet is Herb Robert, though I have to say it is known for being a medicinal herb and also can suppress other weeds very well with its dense growth and perhaps a little allelopathy thrown in, so it can transform some weedy areas of my 2 acres into this-</div>
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Today I am joining in with Gail's <a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/2016/04/wildflower-wednesday-false-solomons-seal.html" target="_blank">Wildflower Wednesday</a> posts, featuring especially some that like to make carpets that bloom. Native plants occur in pockets of my 2 acre garden, especially in the southern woods, where sheets of Hydrophyllum capitatum come up in spring after becoming ephemeral the previous dry season-<br />
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The little ball-shaped flowers are just beginning to form-<br />
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I've seen a similar appearing more ornamental purple-flowered eastern USA native, <a href="http://www.everwilde.com/store/Lacy-Phacelia-Wildflower-Seeds.html" target="_blank">Phacelia tanacetifolia</a>, that looks interesting, as well as <a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/2013/04/bees-love-purple-phacelia-and-so-do-i.html" target="_blank">Phacelia bipinnatifida on Gail's blog</a> that is quite pretty.<br />
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Another Borage family native perennial that grows by itself in sun is Phacelia hastata. It can get quite large and furnishes food for the native bees in the summer with its very long bloom season-<br />
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Another ephemeral plant that carpets the woods is Circaea alpina, Enchanter's Nightshade, with smaller bright green smooth leaves and eventually tiny flowers, from the Onagraceae family. It is separate here from the Hydrophyllum in the upper right. I was amused once at the fair to see this in the weed display labeled as "garlic mustard". Perhaps it seemed invasive.;-). Minute white flower will show up soon-<br />
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False Solomon's Seal is starting to bloom, the deer will nibble it so I have to protect it. The ones growing here have an exquisite fragrance I can't get enough of-<br />
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The native Mahonia (now Berberis) nervosa, is blooming and will have edible berries, it slowly forms colonies of plants, either alone or mixed with Salal, which I enjoy, especially in the few beds without weed competition-<br />
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Spring Beauty, Claytonia sibirica, can carpet some areas with it tiny candy-like flowers and edible bulbs-<br />
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The related Miner's lettuce, Claytonia perfoliata, is one of the most recognized of the wild edibles, eaten by miners to prevent scurvy-<br />
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A miniature vining plant with cute little incised leaves also makes an appearance, Nemophila parviflora also in the Borage family-<br />
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I once read an article about a study where a residential lawn that had been grass for 40 or 60 years was killed then watered and weeded to see what wildflowers would appear, and grew some amazing plants from dormant seeds. What native plants grow for you without intervention? Hannah</div>
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Continuing with more plants that make flowering carpets in the spring, one that is really popping up everywhere this spring is Ajuga, I have bought several varieties over the years which have possibly hybridized with each other, varying from green leaves to dark burgundy, and flowers that are a blue purple or pink, here coming up in the grass. Mowing would remove the flower spikes but leave the thick low-growing runners that carpet the ground after the flowers are gone-</div>
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And the cute little bloom of the Peony delavayi 'lutea'with a few Geum 'Totally Tangerine', Primula elatior 'Black Lace', Euphorbia cypariassis, Euphorbia amygdaloides, Wojo's Gem variegated Vinca, and some tall wild very weedy buttercups with their amazing shiny petals-<br />
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My vase this Monday features some spiky plants, and a few softer drapers. There are so many things blooming it is easy to just grab a few. I'm accepting hostess Cathy's challenge to find something to plonk <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/in-a-vase-on-monday-allsorts-in-the-mix/" target="_blank">In a Vase on Monday</a>-<br />
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There are a lot of choices now, but the purple and pink spikes of Ajuga have been popping up everywhere and attracted my attention. I added some blue Pulmonaria to match the vase, and some of the cute yellow hoods of the irascible Archangel, an invasive weed that got a foothold in my garden, and also some blue bells of Scilla with their blue stripes on the bells, and actually have a nice fragrance. The plate is an Blue Onion pattern I inherited from my mother-in-law.</div>
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I was admiring my little clump of the species tulip batalini 'Bright Gem', one of the few tulips that apparently don't appeal to the voles and squirrels, I wasn't going to cut any but accidentally cut a couple trying to weed too close-</div>
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The tulip could sense the middle of the day and would open, then would close again as the afternoon wore on-<br />
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I hope you are enjoying your spring flowers now, and find some to cut and enjoy in a vase. Hannah</div>
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</div>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773149110503024929noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495323991307537519.post-68702539876264010092016-04-17T15:39:00.002-07:002016-04-17T16:19:26.180-07:00Foliage Follow-Up, April 17, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is my Foliage Follow-up post, following <a href="http://weedingonthewildside.blogspot.com/2016/04/whats-blooming-now-april-16-2016.html" target="_blank">my April GBBD post</a>, thanks to hostess Pam at <a href="http://www.penick.net/digging/?p=38289" target="_blank">Digging</a>. Foliage is the backbone of the garden, and by April there is a lot of nice fresh spring foliage. Some I most admire are the Japanese Maples, purchased as 4"potted trees. The largest is Amber Ghost-<br />
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Purple Ghost, being trained to a more upright position, it doesn't retain the red foliage in summer but has glorious red fall foliage, more than Amber Ghost-</div>
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The newest little Sister Ghost with lovely variegation, it at least lives up to its name-</div>
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It's time to see what is blooming now for <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2016/04/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-april-2016.html" target="_blank">Garden Blogger's Bloom Day</a>, with hostess Carol. Many flowers are 2-4 weeks early. <br />
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The Camellia japonica has been blooming for a couple of weeks-<br />
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The lilac is blooming, perfuming the air,<br />
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and even more fragrant, Daphne tangutica, blooming its heart out-<br />
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The gorgeous mounds of native Trilliums have been blooming for a while and have faded to magenta, here in my second shade garden-<br />
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The Anemone nemorosa alba has also fade magenta-<br />
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My new Euphorbias that I planted last fall are blooming, Ascot Rainbow-</div>
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Spring is exciting once it gets going, and it seems some flowers are 2-4 weeks earlier than previous years. What is blooming for you? -Hannah</div>
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The excitement of spring continues to amaze. Today I am linking with-<br />
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The cow had a growing feeling she was forgetting something, so she went for a stroll in the garden and soon remembered-<br />
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The many delicate little blue flowers were somehow very soothing-</div>
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After several days, the Forget-Me-Nots had grown taller-</div>
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The early flowers continue to amaze me, here is the shade garden I showed before <a href="http://weedingonthewildside.blogspot.com/2016/03/pnw-spring-gardening-march-28-2016.html" target="_blank">here</a>, now the columbines have begun to bloom as well-</div>
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My seed-grown Primulas from several years ago, these are the ones that survived where others did not, some of the mixed Cowslips turned out to be red-</div>
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In addition my large Stylophorum diphyllum bloomed but seems to blow rather fast, I saw a smaller version with many small flowers I hope to find this year-</div>
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The named Geums started blooming as well, in their lovely orange shades, the tall Totally Tangerine-</div>
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And now for this Monday's vase, I accepted Cathy's challenge to plonk some flowers in a vase, it is rather a mish-mash of colors, starting with variegated Vinca major with blue-purple flowers, Daphne tangutica,with white flowers backed in magenta, that surpasses the lilacs in wafting fragrance through my garden and perfuming the air. I added spiky flowers of a darker Ajuga, a couple of Fritillary flowers discovered late, with their darling checkerboards, and a sprig of my seed-grown Primula cowslips that turned out to be a delightful red-</div>
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An endearing part of spring for me are the carpets of green studded with flowers that suddenly appear. Anemone nemorosas are favorites, the white flowers with magenta streaks on the back that slowly darken to magenta-<br />
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And the purple ones that do so well dry shade under a large big-leaf maple-</div>
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And here is how pathetic the rest of the blueberries look without the anemones-<br />
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The Pulmonarias do a good job of carpeting a bed especially when combined with a small-leaved hosta and the geraniums that will really take over later-</div>
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Looking for flowers to put in a vase for In a Vase on Monday, I wanted to use some more of the daffodils-<br />
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The white-petaled one with large orange cup is Sound, I'm not sure of the yellow-petaled, orange trumpet, the little one is either Poeticus or Pheasant's Eye. And which one do you think has the most fragrance? If you guessed Poeticus you know your daffodils-</div>
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They seemed a little lonely so I added a few dark hellebores-<br />
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I noticed a solitary tulip blooming that managed to escape the voles and squirrels, so had to do another vase with it and the lilacs that just started blooming; I saw the hellebores of a similar tint, and I also added a sprig from Osmanthus delavayi, which is also fragrant but not as strong as the lilacs-</div>
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I'm continually surprised how early everything is blooming, I would have to look at dates on my photos for last year to see just how much. Are your spring flowers early too? Hannah</div>
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I wanted to present some views of how I deal with early spring gardening challenges, I'm sure it only scratches the surface.;-) Today I am linking with-<br />
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Ideally I should have mulched all my grow beds with leaves last fall, but it didn't get done much because last year I injured my knees in the spring, pulling a large Rubbermaid cart uphill heavily loaded with branches, work I have for 22 years here, with lots of cedar trees that continually grow downward to modestly cover their knees. Then July 4 I severely injured my R knee, it would not bend nor bear much weight, while trying to pull up a buried soaker hose. All the heavy gardening and/or age and arthritis has eroded the cartilage in my knees. I had to slowly recover flexibility and strength over 3 months. I took supplements that helped so every week I could lift my foot a little more. I wore braces on both knees and used walkers, I limited my gardening activities severely to the level I could tolerate and still grow my vegetables and flowers, and watered and weeded a new lawn in a large area.<br />
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My husband built me a handy gardening seat so I could sit and scoot along a row, which is nice for my knees. The box flips for a flat sitting surface. The handles help me push up. It is heavy to push around though, but great for working on. long rows.<br />
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At the 3 month point I stopped wearing the braces which I decided were becoming an irritant, and could walk normally, but not completely pain-free. But over winter with lots of rest and without the gardening chores, I am pretty much pain-free as well; I swim and can walk fast. The challenge is to see if I can restrict my activities to what my knees can handle.<br />
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So back to gardening, one of my most useful tools is the plastic tunnel cover, 18' long. I use it when I start working up beds to keep the nearly constant rain off my beds, fall to spring is our rainy season which can mean rain daily. <br />
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I will use them to dry beds before planting tomatoes and later vegetables too, and put them on the weeded soil to keep the soil 10º warmer so I can plant earlier.<br />
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I have been cutting weeds off with a knife or a hand mattock which gets out roots better, or a shovel for deep weeds. Formerly I would have mattocked a bed in a single session, but feel like swinging the heavy mattock (2.5lb or little over a kilo) is not good for my knees. I once had a Mantis tiller but it wrapped all the weeds around the tines and was a mess to clean out, and bucked like a bronco. Ouch. And I read that tillers ruin the soil structure and cause hardpan. So here I am.<br />
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I'm making progress, I got a strip done and planted peas, fava beans, and sweet peas. I'm experimenting with times, I also planted rows of these on February 10. They took nearly a month to come up but are growing now, though I had to fill in where some did not grow. <br />
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I will compare the two groups for which time is more effective. BTW I grow what is called snap peas, they have thick tender edible pods and fill up with nice peas. You can eat the whole thing raw in salads or cooked. I've also grown snow peas, but while they are all edible, Asians usually pick the wide pods before the seeds develop for stir fries, and later they are still edible but can get stringy or tough, so I like snap peas better, I'm growing Super Sugar Snap and Sugar Snap for taller vines, and Cascadia, Sprint, Sugar Ann, and Sugar Daddy for short vines.<br />
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I'm beginning to pick the top flower buds from the kale plants planted last July. They are very tender, and picking makes them branch from all the axils so next time there will be several per plant, which continue as long as I keep them picked, then I let them flower for the bees.<br />
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I was pleased to see the Hyacinths return this spring when some other bulbs didn't. The fragrance is wonderful.<br />
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The Pulmonarias are a wonderful long-lasting addition to a shade garden, coming up in spring with their gorgeous variable silvery patterned foliage, and self-sowing with unique new patterns, plus a range of colors from purple-</div>
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In addition to the Pulmonarias, the lace-edged Primulas are blooming-</div>
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The second species of Junco that comes to my deck, the Dark-Eyed or Slate-Colored Junco, is more abundant now-<br />
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Spring has been here for a while according to the blooming of the flowers. Today I am linking with-<br />
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This week for Cathy's In A Vase On Monday challenge to fill a vase, I want to feature some blooming pink trees in my garden, Magnolia rusticana rubra, a pink Camellia, Ornamental Quince- Chaenomeles, and the native Flowering Currant, with some timber bamboo-<br />
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It also includes a glass tulip-<br />
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I then felt like making a tiny vase of pinks and a few blue-purple Muscari-<br />
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Another color abundant now is various shades of blue-purple, regular Muscari, M. latifolia with purple on top and maroon on bottom, Vinca minor, and some Pulmonaria-<br />
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I am rather pragmatic so have been celebrating the approach of spring by working to cut out overgrown bushes and weed beds to plant peas and sweet peas, which are soaking now to sprout them before planting and hopefully hasten germination. This week's featured garden visitor was hiding in my plastic tunnels I use to dry the soil by keeping off the rain.</div>
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The month is flying by, and only one week left until spring, but it has already hit. My Hellebore beds are at full glory now-<br />
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So I am celebrating them with another arrangement for In A Vase On Monday, hosted by Cathy who challenges us to find something in our garden any Monday of the year to decorate our houses. Today I am linking with-<br />
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My vase this week, Hellebores and a special Narcissus, special not because of its beauty or fragrance, but because it has managed to mysteriously spread throughout my several beds in the middle of my driveway circle.</div>
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And for GBBD, the dainty Muscari latifolium are blooming, in addition to the Daffodils, Vinca, Primula, and <a href="http://weedingonthewildside.blogspot.com/2016/02/spring-bursts-forth-february-29-2016.html" target="_blank">Hyacinths</a>-</div>
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I had no idea how out of hand trees and shrubs could get up here in the great Pacific Northwest, so now I am paying for it in hard work. Lesson learned- at least I am slowly getting back in shape. I hope you are enjoying your garden work, what mistakes are you having to correct? -Hannah<br />
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Spring is still rolling on a little early, now the Pulmonarias are starting to bloom. Today I am linking with-<br />
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For my In a Vase on Monday post this week, answering hostess Cathy's challenge to find something in my garden to plonk in a vase, I combined some Daffodils, Pulmonaria, Vinca major, and some variegated Elaeagnus ebbingei foliage, here in my ceramic vase with crystalline glaze-</div>
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I was noticing the tiny blooms of the purple Dead Nettle, and the terrible weed Cardamine hirsuta, which has been nicknamed "Artillery Weed" since the ripe seeds can explode in your face when you bend over to pull them up. They are very good at reseeding and can expand their territory rapidly. I was wanting some small flowers to cut for my little little ceramic box made like a sewing machine-</div>
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Hostess Cathy wrote of promises last week, significant for me since we celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary last month. I like to look at our photos as children and imagine us meeting, but the nearly four year difference in our ages means we probably wouldn't have played together much. But I would have thought he was cute! He has been a source of stability and happy companionship for all those years, he likes to ride motorcycles and bicycles, and is building an electric assist tricycle, so I guess I would have to call him The Motorcyclist.</div>
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Meanwhile out on the deck, I was visited one day by both a male Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus-</div>
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I originally knew them under the old name I like better, the Rufous-sided Towhee.</div>
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</div>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773149110503024929noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495323991307537519.post-27043737848555592742016-02-29T16:39:00.000-08:002016-03-01T01:10:02.566-08:00Spring Bursts Forth, February 29, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Spring seems to be bursting out all over, early. I'm not too surprised at the daffodils and Primulas, but some of the other flowers shouldn't be around yet. I have to assume we are in for another hot year. Today I am linking with-<br />
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I am working on removing extensive weeds and putting down leaves that should have been there last fall to get ready for vegetable beds, finished half of first strip on the left, middle part has some strawberries mixed in-<br />
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I gathered a few of the early spring flowers for my In A Vase On Monday challenge of the week- Tete-a-Tete Daffodils, unknown Daffodil, Hyacinth, Hellebore 'Cherry Blossom, Osmanthus heterophyllus sprigs, and Lonicera nitida sprigs, in a crystal vase. Check out Cathy's bloghop for more interesting vases and flowers.</div>
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</div>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773149110503024929noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495323991307537519.post-27410467734968038252016-02-22T01:30:00.000-08:002016-02-22T01:30:07.451-08:00Enamored with Evergreens, February 22, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Winter here is too cold for most plants to bloom, so it is nice that evergreen shrubs and perennials with their persistant leaves do so well here. I'm also using them for a belated Foliage Follow-up post.<br />
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<a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/in-a-vase-on-monday-the-hippest-lion-to-roam-the-plain/" target="_blank">In a Vase on Monday</a> hosted by Cathy<br />
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<a href="http://macromonday2.blogspot.com/2016/02/ironworks.html" target="_blank">Macro Monday 2</a> hosted by Gemma and Magical Mystical Teacher<br />
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Down my ramp, the Rosemary plants are probably the most useful of the evergreens, behind it is the variegated Elaeagnus ebbingei 'Gilt Edge'-<br />
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On the east side of the house is Osmanthus delavayi, which has tiny glossy dark leaves, looking like tiny ivy leaves, and has fragrant white flowers in spring. It grows densely enough I can even keep it looking fairly good with my so-so pruning skills, behind it are the irrepressible Rhododendrons-</div>
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The small but sprightly holly-like variegated Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki'-</div>
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The evergreen Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'-</div>
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My newest experiment with evergreens are 4 Manzanitas, wonderful plants from the mountains that don't need, in fact dislike, summer water, making them excellent for places far from my hoses. They are also winter to early spring bloomers, great for those resident hummingbirds, and have edible berries, and gorgeous reddish smooth bark in some cases. Here Arctostaphylos sonomensis-</div>
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A. viscida 'Sweet Medina'-<br />
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A. columbiana 'Wolf Creek'-<br />
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Flower buds on A. columbiana 'Parkdale East'-<br />
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I saw a large Manzanita at Georgie's Clay absolutely loaded with similar bunches of flowers running pink to white, absolutely fantastic. I meant to get a photo but it was raining when I came out.</div>
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Camellia japonica 'Taiyo' has grown to 4' from a tiny few inches, despite getting no care at all and practically no summer water; the variegated leaves are lovely-</div>
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Cathy of IaVoM asked about my Vinca 'Wojo's Gem', it is a puzzle since it tends to be called Vinca major in spite of being the size of Vinca minor, though Proven Winners calls it V. maculata, it spread very well in this seldom-watered bed around a tree, better than in a long bed with lots of competing plants-</div>
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It has flower buds about to unfurl, and regular Vinca minor is starting to bloom very early as well-</div>
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And now for this week's In a Vase on Monday challenge, I found one little Crocus bloom- most of the original crocuses have long ago disappeared because of voles or squirrels, and one tiny Snow Drop with some pink winter heather, Erica x darleyensis-</div>
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I rather prefer the crocus with the fuller silvery Lamium, which has a echo of some purple in the pattern, the vase of unknown origin with roses reminding me of sugar ones for decorating cakes-</div>
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