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Name that plant
So I went on this garden tour. It was interesting to see all the work that had gone into building water features and a great garden studio and roofed enclosures for hot tubs. The flowers were lovely...
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Grow the World’s Best Garlic
At risk of becoming known as garlic-obsessed following the garlic scape recipe incident, I just had to write a little post about this year’s crop. I’ve grown garlic for years. And years. And every year...
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Currants, and rolling thunder
I harvested the currants this week, just like if I knew what to do with them. We have a red currant bush and a black currant bush and this is the first year there were many to pick. It is very slow...
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Japanese maples and why
In the past I planted a couple different Japanese maples. This year I noticed how much I like them. Below is the first one I brought home long ago. It’s grown to about ten feet tall, in complete shade,...
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Garden real estate
And so the train has pulled up to August. It’s a hot place. Max and I took a walk up the lane on an early, hazy morning. The clay ground has gone hard. It’s been hot forever and there are forest fires...
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hot shots
If you have a minute today could you please call Weather Maintenance? I need this heat to go away just as soon as the last down comforter gets dry. Rain would be nice then. Even cool rain would be okay...
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September survival
A person around here broke a foot bone. I won’t mention any names but the broken bone didn’t belong to Max or to me. So anyway there was a guy on crutches for a month and the other people here had to...
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Time travel and basal cuttings
Hmm looks like it’s been a while. Spring already. Could be I traveled forward in time suddenly and without warning… I wrote a story once, about a woman who created a time machine in her kitchen...
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I got out
Perhaps you travel to exotic regions regularly. To France, if you live in Cincinnati, or to Cincinnati if you live in France. Or to Russia. Or outer space. Hubble Space Telescope image of the Arches...
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June-ness
It may be a hard heart that loveth naught in May but it’s a dead plant that flourisheth not in June. Yes it’s jungle time now, like up in the sky where the trees are all growing together, and their...
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