Pressing flowers
Pressing flowers — scilla, chionodoxa, checkered fritillary, hellebores.
I am in one of my super-harried weeks again, but trying to remember to take 5-10 minutes for the garden here and there, in between kazillion often-challenging e-mails. Sigh. 2.5 weeks to end of semester — it’s a sprint, and I’m at the trying-not-to-throw-up stage. The garden is the only thing keeping me sane right
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Garden log 4/9/24. Red-letter garden day — first time I’ve seen a dragonfly in my garden! 🙂 Not sure where it came from — I have a few birdbaths, but I wouldn’t think that’s enough water to attract dragonflies. But I’m happy regardless.
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Leucojum (summer snowflake), azalea buds, a nice combo of white Thalia daffodils with purple periwinkle groundcover and the tiny blue flowers of Jack Frost brunnera, viburnum buds starting to open, Jane magnolia, with the house in the background.
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Native double bloodroot. Gorgeous, reminiscent of a gardenia in form, tiny, slow to spread. This one was gifted from a neighbor a few years ago; I bought and planted a few more last year, but they haven’t come up yet, I think. Eventually, I’d love to have a whole colony of them, so I can
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Did you know that hellebore blooms sometimes change a lot as they get older? Same flower, same plant (pictured behind, blurry), different ages. 🙂
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Garden log 4/9/24. Another perfect gardening day, and here’s a new addition — I added a birdbath (from City Escape) to the parkway, and this morning, filled it with hellebore blossoms. Hopefully it’ll provide some surprise and delight for neighbors wandering by. They usually last a week or so indoors. I’m not sure how they’ll
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Garden log 4/8/20. It’s a perfect gardening day, and I was going to color my hair this morning, but I realized I would much rather spend that time digging things up and planting them again (once I’m done with prep for this afternoon’s teaching). My hair may not look so polished, but my garden will
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