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Nature's Spaghetti

Gifted rose is blooming.I have big hands and it always has big blooms.Weeds take and weeds give back and make everything stronger.The lilies I grew from damaged bulbs are back!Tomatoes are just now flowering, stalled for a while.So pretty.Partly by chance, I just wanted a support for the rose. Yo, Dear Reader, I’ve been sitting on some of these photos and I am currently helping st up another…

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Be Like Bill

The roses really got pushed forward, they’re all tangled.My purple rose, so beautiful.Okay, Torpedo is probably the last mask. Three different masks made him.These raspberries are from a seed, likely my own, that a bird must’ve dropped, or a berry I tossed, and after a few years is bearing the sweetest fruit…inside the huge rose.The smell of passion fruit and basil is wonderful.There are two…

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Yearly I Thought You Were Dead Post

When it’s really hot this and the basil together make the greenhouse smell amazing.Strawberries are starting to grow, slow yet and with the rain I’ll wait, better than mushy berries.In those three weeks it was hot enough to start an uchiki kuri squash outside.Last year nearly killed the raspberries, but they’re okay. Funnily the old canes will not detach.Made the step bigger, I’ll cement the top…

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Rose Resume

I do love that these never stay upright.Hiding beneath the others.They’re everywhere.I love the changing shapes.I will never get used to these flowers.Irises are back.Seeded itself in a pot of lilac.These surprised me as I had no idea I planted them.All the green pods are flower buds.It’ll get a big bloom for a time and then just go back to green, beautiful though. Yo, Dear Reader, the dry…

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Days of Roses and Noses

Roses are blooming in odd order.Cheery, such a jolly guy.People want constant blooms, but I love to see the birds in here with the strawberries, mint and all the waiting blooms.Back rose needed a push back after the storm damage.Usually the first bloom, not this year.Hard to tell,but there’s curve where it was blown forward.Some barrel strawberries needed replacing, this year I pin runners from…

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Bee Blocked

In a shocking turn the first rose of the year is pink!A pink strawberry flower too…less shocking though.A little dated, the cabbages are out in the coldframe/growhouse, and there’s more squash.Uneaten hosta.Sometimes I mix too much, but I’m sticking these to the back pillars as I go so it works out.I love seeing so many you can’t move because of them.Beneath the roses are the Welsh Poppies.I do…

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This Is For The Bees! Actually, It All Is

Thought I had heatstroke, but no, thumbs up from Mr. Tree.Aquilegia is everywhere. I spread it, it spreads it, birds likely spread it.The Rambler is so thick right now.I keep thinking I have less garlic this year, then remember it is everywhere.New cheap seeds are growing so fast. Some are smaller squash which I’ll plant more thoughtfully as I don’t want to waste space.Newer berry plants are…

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Let's Grow!

Back rose covered it so I moved it and used an old cement pot I made as a base.This Japanese Laurel I grew from a cutting was in there, the roots only just reached the edges of a small pot after years.Ajuga the mighty spreader…stickyweed which has returned somehow.Jip, he has a similar look to two others: Jim and Rubberlips…hence Jip.Naru’s Angel developed rust, don’t know what the paint was, but…

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That Worked? I Mean, That Worked

Hazel, not sure if those are flowers or just buds. I grew them from seed and they’re only about two years old now.I was going to toss those bottomless pots anyway, they got a little more use this way.Young, hates mirrors. Saw all three today, but could only get a photo of two.Bottomless pots so I don’t dig them up by mistake.Fig that was in the greenhouse, also three fifty, must be a sweet spot…

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Come Back Sun!

Year after year they bloom more and more. Patience is a must.Every year I watch where the bees go and I plant more of that. The flowering currant is great and grew from a nub.Currants are great for pectin in jams. Good for bees too, funny how it all connects and yet we ignore it.Basil needs light so I used the spare glass as a lid.Now it’s cool I have to remove lids and let them dry a bit, when…

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What a Terrible Day To Have A Nose

Funnily in recent years nothing is eating the tulip leaves.It worked surprisingly well.I love that pattern.Neighbour’s Wife’s rose is still okay.The soil I used is weedy, but rich and I know how to spot the weeds.Jumbo Pink Banana and Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat.I just give the tomatoes away, but you can’t grow much inside the greenhouse bar basil and tomatoes…also passiflora I guess.I like that…

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Oh, Right, This Is Sunshine

Funny how everything looks so much better in the sun.Champagne Rhubarb looking good. It’s thin and delicate, but very sweet.Under The Rambler has so many different things growing now, where it was just empty before.Okay, likely the last time, but I found this piece from the back of the greenhouse all the way in the rose garden, still sticky too. Gorilla tape as an emergency fix was pretty good,…

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Permanent Pea-frames, Erected Yearly

Feels good, Dear Reader.Last year I don’t think I saw a single anemone.The clear roof gets me more light in the evening.Found as a small seedling in a mix I’d guess, now it’s growing fast.You may remember the red rose cutting. Growing just fine.White magnolia is out and stunning.I no longer plant potatoes like I’m burying a body.Training this rose as best I can. Yo, Dear Reader, I can finally…

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Reuse, Recycle, Sledgehammer, Repeat

We’re all a little battered after that Winter.First tulip of the year.Missed the pink catkins before they opened.Tied up the wild rose, potted because I have enough huge roses, and figured that spot was just right after I removed an old stand that had rotted.Still need to seal the right roof, but the way the setting sun lights it up is heartening after all that work.Some older rose still seem to…

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How Do You Like Your Blue Eyed Boy, Mr Storm!?

What’s lovely is I got to see it in full sun too.Put a planter beneath the hedge, haven’t seen it in months and looked in and found this.Magnolia buds popping up.The Rambler took a beating, but it’ll fill out again.Buds abound. Yo, Dear Reader, I would say I’ve ben insufferable, but no, I have been talking about the greenhouse a lot, but when it’s the main point of all that grows in the garden…

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I'd Settle For False Spring

Wasn’t supposed to rain, but I was careful and covered and it rained. Almost can’t go a day now without rain.Even the daffodils are tired of this weather.That’s the sky most days. About three O’clock in the day.Bright spots are appearing at least.It’ll be good I know, but I want it back to functional now. Yo, Dear Reader, once again I’m trying to turn my frustrations into something so I’m making…

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Eagles On Greenhouses!

There are signs of life, but it’s really cold and dark still.Is that actually an eagle? no idea. I’m just glad the door went back on okay. Funnily the further back you go the less you see the stripes. Also, the clear stuff looks invisible when clean.Ruby Giant is a misleading name.I guess the work pays off in the long-term. From junky soil to this. Yo, Dear Reader, I was hoping to be much…