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Garden log 4/11/25

Garden log 4/11/25. I may have stress-ordered some plants a few months ago. They arrived today, so I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend. The nurseries typically ship when it’s time for planting, so it should be pretty safe to plant all hardy perennials now. (Though there are no guarantees in gardening…)

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Garden log 3/17/25

Garden log 3/17/25. In my Midwest garden, about 3-4 years after planting a clump of 5 snowdrops, they start to multiply. At that point (when I have 15 or so tightly packed), it’s easy to divide them. The clump on the right (species snowdrop, galanthus nivalis) is one I’ve just dug up as a clump,

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