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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 25

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 25

See Previous | See Next This week a couple of my fancy roses have decided to bloom.  I never get very many of those, but they are very pretty while they’re here.  The one in the picture is El Catala.  I might get one more bloom out of her (I have a very shady garden) or a rabbit or a squirrel might decide to eat it instead… Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows a bunch of roses that…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 24

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 24

See Previous | See Next This week has given us extremes, from raining buckets, to sunny-and-hot.  Yucca flowers are some of my favorites, but always so sadly short-lived.  And my roses might be slow to turn up this year, but some at least have a lot more buds than usual – I suppose they like being properly (rain) watered. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years mostly gives hope of more roses – and also daisies coming soon. Looking back…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 23

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 23

See Previous | See Next This week my peony is trying to take over my garden by lounging all over every part of it that it can reach.  The garden is way too big for such a thing to be possible but it’s still making an impressive attempt.  Also, my bearded irises are still a no-show.  But, in an interesting twist, I have surprise irises instead that last year I didn’t even know I was planting.  I thought I was…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 22

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 22

See Previous | See Next I’m a bit under the weather this week. But my garden is all rain, rain, rain, Green! Green! Green! It’s like it’s working to wrap us all up in the idea of (slightly soggy) summertime. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests roses and peonies to come. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years would also like to suggest clematis and penstemmon. …This week things are really bushy. (And there are no irises.)

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 21

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 21

See Previous | See Next This week my garden is leaning heavily into the woodland look, which means: See more pretty green-and-green in my lovely spurge, which is so obligingly vibrant and bright from shady bits of my front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives some very insistent hints that my bright-orange rose, Austrian Copper, should be blooming soon, so there’s more than green to look forward to. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows more…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 20

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 20

See Previous | See Next This week my garden is pretty.  Not a very exciting statement, but it’s at the point of the season where I like to just wander around in it and look at the pretty (including my pigsqeak looking all happy pink and bright!).  So, I think it’s really nice. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests my earliest roses – Austen Copper 🙂 – might be showing up soon.  Though, it should be noted the…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 19

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 19

See Previous | See Next This week is the season of petals all over the car!  So much rain (yay!) and the lilacs and flowering chokecherry are looking lush and lovely.  And my earliest irises are blooming.  So pretty and sweet! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years definitely supports this as the season of lilacs.  (Though I’m sad more of my early irises don’t seem interested in flowering this year, as were hinted at from last year.) Looking back…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 18

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 18

See Previous | See Next It’s tulips-and-apple-blossoms season and my garden is glowing!  It’s always so gratifying when the Just-plants-lots-of-tulips-and-keeps-planting-tulips strategy pays off, as it definitely has this year.  Last year was nope for tulips, but this year they’re back.  Yay! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a good reminder that spring color really does show up pretty suddenly, but will hopefully keep going for a few more weeks, with other flowers too, before we hit a lull….

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 17

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 17

See Previous | See Next My garden is starting to be painted with spring colors this week!  I’ve got tulips starting in front.  The wild plum bushes are just starting to bloom.  And my pretty, pretty pasque flower is showing its soft, feathery face. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years promises more blooming branches to come and yet more color from the tulips. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years, (despite a sad data-gap) promises pretty lilacs soon too….

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 16

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 16

See Previous | See Next Well, we got more snow this week so that I woke up and looked outside and everything looked like it had been frosted with powdered sugar.  It was cool enough and enough snow to hang around for a day or so and provide some proper moisture, so everything was beautiful, beautiful white and green.  The winter brown has finally been chased away, and the tulips are really gearing themselves up to go. Looking back 1-2…

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