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With silverbells and cockleshells...: The grass is green and the rose (will soon be) red....
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Thursday, April 16, 2009. The grass is green and the rose (will soon be) red. Here is a shot of them - the black (deep purple actually) ones are gone but the white and pink tulips are still there. And here it is a week later. Last summer, I'd acquired a South African Jasmine vine. It was advertised as being very frost sensitive but seems ...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: Roja malare rajakumari (aka my own Jackson & Perkins line up)
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Roja malare rajakumari (aka my own Jackson and Perkins line up). The roses are exploding all over Palo Alto! Anyway, the small leafed rose plants finally coughed up the flowers and we were all escstatic! One of my two climbing roses - Sunset Boulevard - has a spicy smell - I thought it would be more yellow and less ...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: Garden rooms
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. When we first saw our house, the backyard seemed huge and never-ending. And absolutely captivating. I loved it instantly! The Hammock Corner - located under the huge magnolia tree and flanked by Camelia Lane and the tulip magnolia. Always shaded and cool here. Makes for excellent napping. Hello to Nisha, Tara and Ar...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: A bloomin' orchid!
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. I finally succeeded in having a Cymbidium orchid plant survive a whole year and even have blooms! Gotta say though that orchids don't inspire the same poetry that say.um.jasmine does :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My time in space is spent at. Blogging from my cell. View my complete profile.
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: Ooo-oooh that smell
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Mullai (a close relative of pink jasmine I think - never was sure what the difference between mullai and pitchee was) ), kadambam (marigold) and kanakambaram( don't have any idea what the common english name is - in latin it'sRuellia Tuberosa ). If you smash them against your palm. There is this greenish flower -...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: It's suddenly 2009 and I have a new garden!
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Friday, January 16, 2009. It's suddenly 2009 and I have a new garden! The hollyhocks still have pockmarked leaves but the blooms are spectacular.I'm still working on the "fillers" so that the look will seem chaotic but actually have a lot of planning involved. I think that's the real secret of an English/cottage garden look. I am a novice gar...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: April 2009
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. When we first saw our house, the backyard seemed huge and never-ending. And absolutely captivating. I loved it instantly! The Hammock Corner - located under the huge magnolia tree and flanked by Camelia Lane and the tulip magnolia. Always shaded and cool here. Makes for excellent napping. Anyway, the small leafed ro...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: Fall planting
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Monday, November 01, 2004. And yet I happily give my money to them and dream on - one day to photograph such luciousness in my own garden. I'm convinced Daphne feels the plants deep in her mind's eye. But I digress.back to garden design. Come slooowly to life. Mixing and matching textures seems so easy to say and so hard to do! Subscribe to: ...
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: January 2009
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Friday, January 16, 2009. It's suddenly 2009 and I have a new garden! The hollyhocks still have pockmarked leaves but the blooms are spectacular.I'm still working on the "fillers" so that the look will seem chaotic but actually have a lot of planning involved. I think that's the real secret of an English/cottage garden look.
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With silverbells and cockleshells...: Watching grass grow
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With silverbells and cockleshells. Occasional musings about gardens and gardening - my small adventures in attempting to grow the garden I can see in my mind's eye. Tuesday, November 09, 2004. Picture this - I'm all set to plant a 100 bulbs - I have 2 full free hours while the kids are napping - more than enough time to do this and more! I grab the bag of bulbs and efficiently head to the target flowerbed, eye the planting area and kneel down to get down to business. But wait! My time in space is spent at.
