Tag: plants
group name: springsummertime
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February 05, 2009 01:51 PM EST --
Here it is, only February 5th, and already California's springtime weather is encouraging my Concord grapevines to begin the new growing season. These babies are only about 4-5 seasons old, . . .
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May 19, 2009 04:18 PM EDT --
Of May and a Late Afternoon...
As the lowering sun drops down
below the ragged horizon
and the brisk, May breezes
cause the meadow flowers to ripple,
my heart becomes a butterfly . . .
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May 01, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
Last year I had an excellent place, a large bench on my deck, for an herb garden. Never having had an herb garden before, I decided to give it all a whirl. . . .
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March 19, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
I am having a blast viewing all the beautiful "bloomers" you are publishing to my new group " B L O O M E R L O V E R S " ! With the ground having been dormant . . .
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June 24, 2008 12:00 PM EDT --
We have had them off and on for several years, just seems to be more of them this year. They don't bite or sting, My new puppy HotRod has chased, stomped and pretty much terrorised them, with no ill . . .
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June 20, 2009 03:00 AM EDT --
Yep, my Concord grapevines are definitely crankin' out the grapes this season!
They are looking like they're about halfway there. ~ LEICA V-LUX 1
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May 07, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Tomorrow we're going to our nearest Home Depot with my $150 HD giftcards in my hot little hands to buy plants for the yard.
There are certain places in the yard where annual plants are necessary. . . .
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September 03, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
Beautiful Mushroom . . .
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May 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
My daughter Bug was accepted to Prescott College in AZ. In searching for a college she had set specific criteria: strong program in marine biology, conservation focus and a temperate climate. As odd as . . .
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May 10, 2009 07:45 PM EDT --
Not all fruit-yielding plants need help with pollination, a revelation which I have not always known. Whereas most plants need pollinators such as bees, hummingbirds, bats , or what have you, I . . .
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May 10, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
I made another trip to Gilroy Gardens today with my granddaughter. I took lots and lots of flower photos as usual! I was able to ID all of them except for these. I know my smart Gather . . .
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August 23, 2008 12:27 PM EDT --
I'm reposting this from a few weeks ago. If I'd realized there was going to be this great promotion in August, I may have simply waited.
This past week was a tough one at work. Yesterday . . .
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August 01, 2008 12:09 AM EDT --
August Leaves
Russet phantoms --
parched and withered --
spell-summoned
by furnace-drafts
from Autumn's relentless Forge --
decry the Quickening... . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
I had to chair a board meeting for the Western Sonoma County Historical Society day before yesterday that was being held in the "Caretaker's Cottage" at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm . . .
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May 09, 2008 03:15 AM EDT --
I saw a lot of these white flowering trees the last week of April while travelling on Interstate 40 through Western Oklahoma, and into the Eastern part of the Texas panhandle. They were frequently . . .
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May 24, 2008 06:38 AM EDT --
As much as you all seemed to enjoy my recent "Best Bird Photos" article (if you haven't yet seen it, click here ), about our local, Sonoma County, Northern California birds, I thought I'd . . .
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May 12, 2008 02:29 PM EDT --
Tree boughs yield
to a bitter wind...
Spring flowers frozen
in mid-bloom...
Grey clouds obscure
skies of azure blue...
Alone, I watch
my rosebuds sway
Outside . . .
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May 26, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
Here's the view from the top of the hill by the my house here in Cloverdale. Look! You can see the vineyards down in the Alexander Valley from here!
It's been overcast . . .
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August 22, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
With a click and whirr of grasshoppers' wings,
summer breaks into song...
These are the days of reckless clouds and
untamed sunlight when hooky is the only game in . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
One could arguably say that -- out of the over 800 varieties of plants invented by famed plant-breeder, Luther Burbank (1849-1926) -- it was the Shasta Daisy ( Leucanthemum x superbum ) that . . .
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