Archive for 'Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet'
Posted: June 30th, 2003 by
Lisa
The garden is definitely in transition, from our June bursts of bloom and the start of the summer colors of yellow and gold. For some reason, I seem to have a lot of white things blooming right now, not that I’m complaining. It just means I need to buy more plants! What a hardship. Madame
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Posted under Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Companula, Delphinium, Foxglove, Golden Globe, Honeysuckle, Madame Hardy, Roses.
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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 13th, 2002 by
Lisa
The water lilies are out, and the turtle from the other day did seem to lay eggs before she left. The trick is supposedly being the closest body of water that the new baby turtles find, and then they’ll hang out here for most of their life. We hope it works! The iris! I hardly
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Posted under Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Flag, Iris, Lily, Turtle, water lily.
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Posted: May 19th, 2001 by
Lisa
What a difference a month makes. We spent much of today hauling up the window boxes full of annuals (get it? annual migration?) from the basement to the back deck, which is now completely lined with flowers. Yay! They look so pretty, even if they are not quite cascading yet. But the temps for the
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Posted under Buddlea, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, First Date Out, Obedient Plant, Planting, Veronica, Window Boxes.
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