Gardening, anyone?
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FlaviaRose, we're so close! I'm in a little town nobody ever heard of, quite near Mt. Snow,and about 45 minutes from Bennington. My parents bought the place as a summer retreat when I was tiny. As a teen, I'd have lived anywhere in the universe except here, but eventually it called me and I've been a year-round Vermonter for just about 20 years.
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Flaviarose- what a harvest on your counter top. The flowers and the veggies. You are truly blessed with the green thumb my dear!
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Thank you :-)
Brookside, we are close! All I can say is: New England winters aren't for sissies!
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Beautiful story Jazzy! Love the vegies and flowers.
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The Hot weather here in Washington put a speed on my tomatoes,
they are ripening very fast. And OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
so good.
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Foots, You're so right. Nothing beats a home grown tomato.
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My aloe vera normally blooms once in the winter and once in the summer. This summer, first time it has had two flowers!
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my lillies are starting to bloom.
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my vegetable garden over-run with poppies0 -
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I just love coming here and seeing the beautiful photos. Jazzy I've never seen an aloe bloom. 70charger beautiful lilies. I had a lot of lilies and the chipmunks dug them all up. I only have daylilies now. Speaking of that, I thought I had transplanted a lovely tall yellow daylily to my front bed, and today I see it blooming and its orange. That's OK except it is near my dolce blackcurrant heuchera, so it kind of clashes. Hmmm... This is like the time I bought a cantaloupe plant for 25 cents. It got tiny cantaloupes on it and I thought, oh how weird that they don't get that webbing look on them until later. Well later never came and I finally realized I had honeydew! The tag said cantaloupe.
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beautiful lillies charger70, i had a few once but the deer ate them
bulbs and all.flavirose you could charge admission to day trippers. plus a take home bouquet id say.
My Black Hollyhocks are early this year.
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charger and Flavia: what a fabulous treat to see all of these delightful pics. I love an overrun with poppies veggie garden! I've never seen such a beautiful one. It shall be my new standard of excellence for vegetable gardens!
Jazzy- how special to see an aloe in bloom!
And Two hobbies, very funny story about the melon. For some reason today I wondered what we are going to show each other when the winter months come. We should try to recruit some ladies from down under, NZ, and S. Africa, etc., so we can have beautiful summer all year long here.
I have nothing to share today, but thought of all of you when I drove by several huge stands of naturalized foxgloves. They have exploded here on the Oregon Coast and are Just gorgeous. But I was late to a vet appointment and couldn't pull off the highway and do them justice. Earlier in the year, each year, we have naturalized lupines that cover the hillsides right up to the cliffs overlooking the ocean. I think of them as our Oregon bluebonnets.
Edit: after I posted I saw your smashing hollyhock, Daylily. Nice!
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Hollyhocks are stunning love the dark purple.
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I let foxglove and mullein (they're both tall biennials) grow wherever they want in my veggie garden, then plant veggies and marigolds in the leftover places. If you haven't guessed, I like flowers better than veggies. I think I plant veggies only because I so enjoy the geometry of their rows and patterns. Of course, planting around the flowers kind of defeats the geometry thing.
Just looked at my side garden and bee balm is finally in bloom. About half in full bloom, half still working at it.
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Speaking of letting things re-seed and grow wild amidst the vegetables - my garden has so many things that come up ever year that I can't bear to weed out.... borage, poppies, rudebeckia, dill, cilantro, peppermint, oregano, arugula, sweet william, chamomile, echinacea, foxglove, primrose.....and then there are the perennials: gogi berries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, horseradish, hazlenut, pear, peach, apricot, bush cherry, persimmon, peppermint....
I love the borage - don't use it for anything.... and I love the vegetables, I love to go down to the garden and graze... this past month I've had snow peas and raspberries for breakfast every day.... I wish my husband liked zucchini.....
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Jackbirdie, I've never been to Oregon, but have seen pictures of the coast and it is stunning. I've been daydreaming of what would be the ideal place to garden year round, and I'm wondering if Oregon is it? You don't have the water problems that California does, right? Does it freeze where you are?
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I love standing in the garden and eating snow peas. Not sure why people cook them, they're so good raw.
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Flavia- Oregon has many climates and zones, but on the southern Oregon Coast where I am, it's pretty close to perfect. We do have plenty of water, enough sun, no hard freezes. The temp where I am ever gets much above 80. Sometimes it gets to freezing temps, or just under, for a couple hours at night. Wind is probably the biggest problem. I've lived here 5 years now. Born in CA, left when I was 30, and have done the East and Midwest. I felt a sense of home from the first here, though sadly, I'm not close geographically, to family. Here is a little taste of what's near me:
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while I was scanning through my photos, I found pics of the naturalized foxgloves, taken last year. The stands I saw today numbered in the hundreds, but this will give you an idea on color:
And here are some native azaleas
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The photos are just beautiful everyone.
The black hollyhocks are really something special too Daylily. Never seen those but love hollyhocks of all colors.
Flavia- a garden overrun with poppies is a good problem to have, yes?
The pics make me want to take a road trip to visit all your gardens (and oh yes, you too!)
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I'd love to have poppies invade my veggies, especially the lovely pink ones you have, Flaviarose. Love the absolutely luminescent borage photo! They used to grow in my veggie garden but have since been banished to the stream's bank. I never saw them in that light. My loss!
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Love your photos, Jackbirdie. I was on the Oregon coast a few years ago, absolutely loved it. Had I known how gentle the seasonal temperature variations were, I'd probably have dug in and stayed right there!
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Jackbirdie, those photos of the coast are lovely. I have a friend who moved to Brookings, so I've seen similar photos. Love the azalea photo. What I love about those kinds of climates are the camellias, we can't grow them here. 70charger, lovely lilies. I once planted a bunch of aziatic lilies that were spectacular the first year, but never came back - the rodents ate them over the winter.
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So happy to see a gardening thread! My garden is my sanctuary and my therapy. I love everyone's pictures!
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Welcome kiki- love your flowers too!
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Nothing more cheerful than a mess of daisies! Welcome
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