Roses: Princess Alexandra of Kent, Julia Child. I’m particularly happy to see Julia Child come back — it was a Valentine’s gift from Kevin (he gave me a gift certificate to a garden store, which is one of the BEST gifts), and it was struggling to get established last year. Seems happy now, yay!
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I don’t have any coral peony shrubs, which I think is a real lack in my garden. Next year! I bought a few at the farmer’s market and set them to drying.
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When you don’t get around to pruning and tying up your roses, sometimes they try to escape. Oops. Blaze climbing rose.
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My weeding is going SO SLOWLY. But it’s getting there, bit by bit.
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Garden log 6/1/24. This combination amuses me — firecracker flower (right) and allium schubertii (which looks like fireworks). 🙂 The former is a perennial, the latter isn’t hardy in my zone, so I plant a few of them as bulbs every fall.
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Roses packed for drying. I think this is Blaze climbing rose.
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My peonies are done (lots dried and waiting to be made into art), so I’ve started collecting roses for drying. Although I have so many peony orders right now, I think it’ll be at least a month before I get to roses! We’ll see. The pink in the back is Eglantyne, but I’m not sure
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This rose is working so hard to reach the light that it’s climbed all the way up through the redbud tree. 🙂 While I’m here, a quick note that I’m going to try to standardize some of my resin piece prices, as it’s been a little random so far. Here’s what I’ve got at the
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Harvested more strawberries — third pint so far. They’re a little less flavorful now — not so good for eating out of hand, but I think they’ll still be nice macerated with some sugar for an ice cream mix-in.
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