Tag: gardening
group name: mormongreen
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September 03, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
There is a favorite time of day in my garden and a favored view:
but there is also a place to seek the shade which is hidden from the casual passer-by:
passing beyond . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
Initially I called it my bog garden, but I came to realize that the bog was in the pond and the pond was beside or a feature of the garden, but not the garden. So with my sixth son, I began to imagine . . .
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April 03, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
The snow isn't completely off the yard, though crocus are up and at them. Unfortunately, we are expecting snow tonight and the tulips I planted last year around my weed garden are vigorously . . .
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August 10, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
As I have meditated on my garden to be, it occurs to me that wintergreen might make a good groundcover -- but then I realized that I know next to nothing about wintergreen, at least the plant from whom . . .
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August 11, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
I believe that all responsible gardeners understand that it is taboo to transplant natural plants, especially wildflowers which are moderately rare from the wild. Let me suggest another approach. . . .
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June 21, 2007 10:49 PM EDT --
I started work on creating a garden out by our fire pond this spring. Initially, it was to have been a bog garden because the pond has become almost silted shut at the end towards the garden. . . .
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July 13, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
The most therapeutic part of a garden is just sitting or standing in it, looking around and trying to visualize how it should grow, what limb should be pruned, what area should be cleared and mowed, and . . .
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September 14, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
Well, can't say we weren't warned. My son prepared a raised bed vegetable garden
near my weed garden and arbor. Nobody thought the deer would leave . . .
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August 18, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
I have been fascinated with the construction of hedges ever since I read a National Geographic article about a dying European art -- the laying of hedges. These are not the boring boxwood and monoculture . . .
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April 22, 2008 07:21 PM EDT --
There are some gardens which are created for production, such as vegetable gardens. Other gardens are created for beauty, aesthetics, and landscaping effect. Then there are the ascetic gardens . . .
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March 12, 2008 06:35 PM EDT --
Does anybody have experience gardening with Saskatoon blueberries? Do they attract birds, do they really taste like real blueberries? What other value do they have?
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August 08, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
It seems to me that if you are trying to let nature plant a garden for you by carefully demarcating plots by meticulously mowing around them, but leaving the plots themselves strictly alone to develop. . . .
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August 17, 2007 10:14 PM EDT --
It has been from the Beginning that all gardens have boundaries. A demarcation which says this is the garden and that is, well something else. When talking about boundaries, its not necessary . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:51 PM EDT --
We live in a culture that demands the awesome, the spectacular, the breathtaking and the sublime, although our society tends to deliver something far less. But if you require the awesome, the spectacular, . . .
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July 31, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
Once again the power of gardening has awed me with its might. Our family was starting to get a little unfocused without a family project. That kind of happens from time to time when the vast . . .
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March 02, 2008 04:38 PM EST --
Ah...in the long days awaiting Spring, I guess I spend a little too much time looking at things that point towards warmer days in the company of Summertime songsters and actors. Hovering over bird . . .
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September 21, 2007 09:44 PM EDT --
For those who are into the "Weed Garden" series you will know by now that I have been spending a lot of time in a metaphor this summer. A metaphor that I periodically leave in order express . . .
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