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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Front Garden Tulips & Hyacinths
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| Yellow Emperor tulips |
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| Yellow Emperor tulips in the Japanese maple bed |
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| Japanese maple bed with hyacinths and tulips |
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| Springtime growth in the front garden |
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| Blue Jacket and Carnegie hyacinths in front, with primroses and euphorbia in center bed |
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| Yellow and white Emperor tulips with bachelor's button foliage and fallen plum blossom petals |
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| Hollywood plum tree bed with early spring Emperor tulips |
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Emperor Tulips!
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| Orange Emperor tulip (Emperor tulips are the common name for tulips in the Fosteriana tulip group.) |
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| Orange Emperor tulips in the square foot garden with sorrel, snow peas, and beets |
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| Orange Emperor tulips with snow peas, arugula, poppies, and lavender As you can see, my definition of square foot gardening has evolved over the years! |
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| Emperor tulips, snow peas, sorrel, lettuce, radishes, arugula, poppies, beets, and lavender |
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| Yellow Emperor tulip (aka Yellow Purissima) |
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| Yellow Emperor tulips in the front Japanese maple bed |
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| The first of the white Emperor tulips in the front Hollywood plum tree bed |
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| Yellow Emperor tulips in the front Hollywood plum tree bed |
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Hyacinths!
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| Carnegie hyacinths |
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| Carnegie hyacinths with grape hyacinths and foliage of Spring Green tulips and Autumn Joy sedum |
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| Blue Jacket hyacinths with foliage of daisies and poppies |
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| Blue Jacket hyacinths in the front garden perennial bed |
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| Blue Jacket hyacinths with yellow Emperor tulips just blooming in the background |
Monday, April 1, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Spring Flower Bouquets!
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| A tiny spring bouquet of grape hyacinths and glory of the snow, with lovely pottery made Chelsea Grace. |
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| Trumpet daffodils with Euphorbia |
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| Hellebores for an Easter bouquet, with my favorite garden book by Sarah Raven, The Cutting Garden |
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| Blue Jacket hyacinth with Euphorbia, alongside a lovely piece of artwork by Josh Brugman |
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Kitchen Garden in the Sunshine!
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| Beautiful new spring growth on a sunny day |
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| A trellis for snow peas along with some spinach and sorrel in front of a bed of tulips and peas |
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| A long row of Negrita and Emperor tulips with shelling peas on either side |
Onions and Leeks
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| An overwintered bed full of Egyptian Walking Onions |
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| The last of the overwintered leeks |
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| These two were huge--at least an inch in diameter, and look at all those roots! |
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