Tag: gardening
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A Garden Update
I think it’s about time for a garden update! We’ve been working on tidying up flower beds and making a few new non-grass areas, but I just haven’t taken pictures of all of that yet. I’ll try to do that in the next week or two. After seeing the yellow and white roses in Ken’s…
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Springtime Flower Garden
My flower garden makes me sooooo happy in the springtime, so I want to share it with you. I’d like to have a pretty wreath on the front door, but birds build nests in it, and then we can’t go in and out that door for weeks for the sake of the baby birds. So…
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My Summer Garden
We aren’t doing formal nature studies right now, but even a trip to the mailbox provides a trip through furiously blooming flowers, busy bees, and fluttering butterflies, like this swallowtail on a purple butterfly bush (aka buddleia). Ken’s birthflower, the gladiola, is so named because it resembles a sword; the Latin word gladiolus means sword….
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Spring is springing!
Spring is springing up all over my garden! That includes the weeds. This week I weeded, then weeded some more–and more! It’s crazy how many weeds I pulled, and my garden is STILL chock-full of them. Grrrrrr! The weeds may have won this week’s battle but I will win the war on weeds — eventually!…