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Romantic Gardening: Garden Inspiration for Your Children
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Garden Inspiration for Your Children. The Kid-Gardener's Planting Book for Parents. By Chris Eirschele will show you how to nurture this love of gardening in children. It is filled with inspirational ideas that will spark your child's interest and curiosity. Eirschele's book makes gardening fun (and not just for the kiddies). I've been a gardener most of my life, but I still learned a few things from this book, so this might also be a good read for beginning gardeners as well.
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Romantic Gardening: Relocating With Your Garden Plants
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Relocating With Your Garden Plants. Plan ahead and pot ahead if you're relocating with your. With a little dialog with the new owners of the garden, owners who aren't "into" gardening, as well as a mention in the contract, it's possible to move all your plants when you relocate. This is rare in a real estate contract, but it can be done. You can move some plants without a mention, and you can certainly divide them, leaving the garden to the new owner. Web Places I Love.
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Romantic Gardening: What is Rose Proliferation?
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011. What is Rose Proliferation? Of Mutants, Cold Springs, Genetic Predisposition and Roses. By Lorraine Syratt ©2009 -2011. Are prone to proliferation which turns a beautiful flower ugly in its center. Rose proliferation isn't a killer and it can avoided. Proliferation in roses has been known for centuries. Botanists of the 18th century called these new buds "childings," due to the symbolism of the mutation. Rose proliferation can be random. It can happen one year and not the next...
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Romantic Gardening: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013. How to Force Spring Flowering Bulbs in Water. Bring April into your home in the winter by forcing spring flowering bulbs. When the snow blankets the garden outside, the forced bulbs will remind the gardener that spring is just around the corner. Most bulb packages will indicate whether or not the bulb is a good plant for forcing. Hyacinth, Crocus and Paper White Narcissus can be easily forced in water. Posted by Lorraine Syratt. Links to this post. Monday, March 4, 2013. Over the ...
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Romantic Gardening: The Garden Teaches Patience
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Monday, July 7, 2014. The Garden Teaches Patience. Photo Taken in a year the chipmunks didn't eat the three buds. My father would have called them sods as well. Barring anything that upsets the balance between the garden and garden maker, there is only abundance, grace, peace and patience. As gardeners, we accept the garden's ever-changing and ever-evolving cycles . its slow growth. We are on a long journey with our gardens. They teach us patience from the time we first take up our spades.
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Romantic Gardening: July 2014
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Monday, July 7, 2014. The Garden Teaches Patience. Photo Taken in a year the chipmunks didn't eat the three buds. My father would have called them sods as well. Barring anything that upsets the balance between the garden and garden maker, there is only abundance, grace, peace and patience. As gardeners, we accept the garden's ever-changing and ever-evolving cycles . its slow growth. We are on a long journey with our gardens. They teach us patience from the time we first take up our spades.
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Romantic Gardening: My Rosa Multiflora Sport
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. My Rosa Multiflora Sport. The original Rosa multiflora. Rosa multiflora isn't considered invasive in Canada and it's a strong favorite in my Canadian garden. I love it for its scent, vigor, beauty and ease of propagation which is the very reason it's unappreciated in the United States. It has the scent and appearance of an old rose, flowering on the previous or first seasons canes. Double R.multiflora sport. Will it bloom intermittently throughout the summer? Rustic Inspiration ...
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Romantic Gardening: Oh-So-Lovely Plant Sources
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We will be sourcing plants regularly and adding links to some wonderful plants that will add some old-fashioned garden romance to your arbors, trellises, flower beds, and fence rows. April 9th, 2012. Botanical Name: Hydrangea 'Annie's Blue'. A new introduction closely related to Hydrangea 'Blue Billows'. 'Annie's Blue' displays a larger profusion of lace-cap flowers that are deep blue when grown in acidic soils and mauve when grown in more neutral soils.". February 26th, 2012. A Scene From my Garden.
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Romantic Gardening: April 2013
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Thursday, April 18, 2013. More Images of My Cottage Garden. Spring 2013 is coming in slowly for us in southern Ontario, Canada, and I'm getting impatient. Started perusing some of last years pics of the garden in anticipation and thought I'd share. These are 2012 garden photos - June and July. I'm forever bringing things into the garden from back forty. This is the wildflower penstemon, also known as beardtongue. It grows to about 3' in my garden. Spring 2012, Late May, Early June. Links to this post.
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