Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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WHINE: Jealous. Whinging
Drought here. Anything I plant will have to be watered by hand or hose with an auto shutoff.
Thought I was flying to Scandinavia yesterday. Bob is having too much trouble with Parkinson's so we cancelled.
May plant something instead.@CHAS Ouch. Sorry about your trip. I hope Bob feels better soon, to the extent that he can.
Mr. AM just launched a Parkinson’s support group yesterday, a joint venture with the local community center and Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon. 24 people showed up. We were pleasantly surprised; we expected maybe 6.
It’s a long road, and we’re on it.
Now I’m headed outside to water, water, water. I don’t trust our 100 year old house’s plumbing enough to leave water faucets on with timers!
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The hydrangeas have begun blooming
It’s been very warm here, and I was away for the weekend, so there’s a little bit of crispiness on some of these.
I love these. This plant was a from a 1 gallon bucket 20 years ago. It’s huge now.
Not a bloom, but past bloom! The blueberries are in high season. We planted 3 bushes about 25 years ago; one of those remains. I added one more, but it ripens a little later, so most of these are from the original bush. I’ve picked 3 gallons so far.
The raspberries are from plants the kids gave me about 10 years ago. Raspberry shortcake: short plants, thornless. (edited; I said stemless but that’s for wine glasses!)
Food people: here’s a recipe for avocado blueberry quinoa salad; we had that for dinner last night.
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The hydrangeas have begun blooming
It’s been very warm here, and I was away for the weekend, so there’s a little bit of crispiness on some of these.
I love these. This plant was a from a 1 gallon bucket 20 years ago. It’s huge now.
Not a bloom, but past bloom! The blueberries are in high season. We planted 3 bushes about 25 years ago; one of those remains. I added one more, but it ripens a little later, so most of these are from the original bush. I’ve picked 3 gallons so far.
The raspberries are from plants the kids gave me about 10 years ago. Raspberry shortcake: short plants, thornless. (edited; I said stemless but that’s for wine glasses!)
Food people: here’s a recipe for avocado blueberry quinoa salad; we had that for dinner last night.
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Japanese balloon flowers. Twice as tall this year as they were last year.
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A couple early Clematis.
A velvety burgandy colored one. This one has been slow to establish itself but it's coming right along now.
A lovely dirty lavender...
I'm letting some Marguerite Daisies come back this year, I've missed them. They were sprouting up in the middle of the lawn and I was mowing them. I spared one, and this one is out of the way. Cheerful flowers.
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A couple early Clematis.
A velvety burgandy colored one. This one has been slow to establish itself but it's coming right along now.
A lovely dirty lavender...
I'm letting some Marguerite Daisies come back this year, I've missed them. They were sprouting up in the middle of the lawn and I was mowing them. I spared one, and this one is out of the way. Cheerful flowers.
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@Bernard Your garden looks lovely! I've never seen a clematis like the first one you posted a photo of. Even the stems look like they are red. Do you know the cultivar name?
@wtg Thanks. Yes! I made it a point to save all plant tags in a notebook (although I admit, some have been lost).
It's called Charmaine(TM) and I see it wasn't cheap, $36.88 as a small plant and that was 4 or 5 years ago.
The tag says, "A strong growing brightly colored plant that produces single, semi double and double flowers on the same plant at the same time, as long as some stems from the previous season remain after winter. Excellent for growing through other wall trained shrubs and climbers, good strong healthy foliage."
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Daylilies coming on strong! The gold ones on the right I got from Lilylady when I went to visit her.
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Hydrangea and Hostas.
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Daylilies coming on strong! The gold ones on the right I got from Lilylady when I went to visit her.
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Beautiful!
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