Archive for 'Day'
Posted: July 31st, 2003 by
Frank
Or so we think. It hides in the algae (which it’s eating madly) so it’s almost as hard to get a good look as a good picture. There are also half a dozen somewhat larger (two inch) charcoal grey fish in there, none of which we’d seen before today. At the rate the salmon colored
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Posted under Algae, Crazy Daisy, Day, Farm Life, Fish, Lily, Pond, Potatoes.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2003 by
Lisa
Usually, by the fourth of July, I’ve got all of my hot summer colors going strong in the garden. Despite the heat (which has been horrible), the summer colors are just now coming into their own. I used to be able to count on a burst of my ditch lilies reliably blooming right on the
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Posted under Bindweed, Chrysler Imperial, Ditch, Golden Globe, Grow lights, Hollyhocks, Lily, Madame Hardy, Roses, Soil.
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Posted: May 17th, 2003 by
Lisa
Of course, it didn’t freeze last night. Our weather station says it went down to 37, so everything probably would have been okay even without all the covering up I did. But since there’s another frost warning tonight, it makes sense to just leave them all right where they are and covered them up just
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Posted under Coneflowers, Cosmos, Day, Delphinium, Fish, Horsetail, Lily, Mulch, Plant Swap, Pond, Weeding, primrose, tulips, water lily.
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Posted: August 1st, 2002 by
Lisa
We finally got some rain last night. This is, of course, just after Frank got the irrigation all working again, including some very cool drip stuff for all my boxes, but man did my yard need water. Everything was so wilted, and we had kept getting clouds and thunder, even some hail, but no rain. It cooled things off nicely, even, though I’m sure we’ll be back to hot and humid tomorrow. The day lilies that we got last year from David Brook Farm are all out in full force this week. Blooming right now are Strutters, Lilting Belle, Snowy Apparition and Louise Mercer named varieties of daylilies.
Posted under Day, Farm Life, Lilting Belle, Lily, Louise Mercer, Rain, Snowy Apparition, Strutters.
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Posted: July 27th, 2002 by
Lisa
We had a very busy day today, having to run errands here and there, and it seemed like I’d miss the Day Lily Extravaganza at a breeding farm near us. But at the last minute, we pawned off some of the errands on Valerie and made it out there just in time. This is a day lily breeder, Davis Brook Farm, Daylily Farm. They have so many pretty flowers. We came home with nine plants, I think. I managed to get them planted in the garden and everything already, even though Frank was watching me like I was crazy, because we were getting ready to go out, but there I was, out in the garden, trying to get them into the ground before we left. It’ll be nice to have a bunch of colors besides the ditch lilies I have so many of.
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Posted: July 7th, 2002 by
Lisa
Since the stupid shredder still wouldn’t start, we puttered in the yard for most of the day. The window boxes are looking just about perfect right now, though I need to get out there and deadhead the whole lot of them again. I’ve been concentrating on keeping up with the weeding and dead-heading in the
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Posted under Algae, Day, Ditch, Fish, Frogs, Window Boxes, Wine, alium, gazebo.
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Posted: July 14th, 2001 by
Lisa
Welcome to High Summer! I was a picture-taking fool today, but I can’t help it. The garden is absolutely beautiful right now. Such a change, suddenly. There are tons of colors all over the place, and everything, it seems, is in bloom. My window boxes in particular are all very full, draping down nicely.
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Posted under Allium, Black Eyed Susan, Compost, Ditch, Dwarf Daisy, Flags, Galliardia, Gladiola, Honeysuckle, Lantana, Lavender, Phlox, Poppies, Soil, Spirea, hosta, hydrangea, pergola, summer.
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Posted: April 28th, 2001 by
Lisa
One of the things on this side of the house that we want to save is an old cellar hole. There was a house and barn on this property long before we owned it, probably abandoned a hundred years ago or so. The house existed on the Marlow tax map in 1860. One of the
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Posted under Crab Apple, Day, Ditch, Lily, Maple, Pond, Pump (pond), Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Wishlist, bonfire.
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