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Archive for 'Hollyhocks'

Finally spring

Posted: March 27th, 2004 by Frank

Lisa spent the week in LA and took the red-eye home last night. While I was waiting for her, I scooped as much crud as I could out of the pond, and turned the pump back on. We lost all our fish for the second year in a row. We told the landscaper we wanted

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Posted under Algae, Daisy, Fish, Foxglove, Hollyhocks, Lamb's Ear, Lavender, Pond, Poppies, Tractor, daffodils, tulips.
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A break in the rain

Posted: August 4th, 2003 by Lisa

We had heavy, heavy rain most of the day today. I remain quite surprised at how well all the flowers are holding up, because the rain has been so hard that I expect to look out and see all the flower stalks lying on the ground, but so far, so good. The hollyhocks are blooming

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Posted under Clematis, Compost, Delphinium, Grapes, Grow lights, Hollyhocks, Honeysuckle, Pallets, Rain, Scrounged, Soil, Star Gazer, pergola.
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And so starts August

Posted: August 2nd, 2003 by Lisa

We’ve had pretty heavy rains all week this week, and the flowers in bloom in the garden are really starting to show the strain of all the water weight. The Shasta daisies in particular have mostly flopped over and started to rot, turning into a most unattractive slime heap. Ick. So I went out and

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Posted under Bindweed, Coneflowers, Crazy Daisy, Deadheading, Delphinium, Frogs, Gardening, Harvesting, Hollyhocks, Lasagna Layering, Lily beetles, Planting, Potatoes, Rain, Reviews, Soil, Star Gazer, Tiger, Weed Whacker, hydrangea.
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Summer Arrives

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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Lisa’s Saturday chores

Posted: June 14th, 2003 by Lisa

One of the things I got done this Saturday was planting the stuff from swapping that had come in during the week while I was out of town. I got some Monarda Purple Bea Balm in on the side of the pergola by the chives. I didn’t actually need more bea balm, but since I

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Posted under Bee Balm, Cats, Columbine, Compost, Fish, Foxglove, Gardening, Hollyhocks, Lamium, Lupine, Marmalade, Plant Swap, Planting, Princess, Ragweed, Weeding, Weeds, Yoda, astilbe, pergola, water lily.
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Busy, Gray Saturday

Posted: May 31st, 2003 by Lisa

Finally, a day when it’s not actually raining. Well, not very hard, anyway. There was light drizzle on and off and the sun didn’t actually come out, but we got quite a bit done out there today. The town had their annual plant swap in the morning. I took down some obedient plant, a couple

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Posted under Blackflies, Chives, Chocolate, Compost, Coneflowers, Evening Primrose, Golden Globe, Hollyhocks, Medallion, Mint, Phlox, Plant Swap, Planting, Potatoes, Roses, Splitting, Trillium, Worms, campions.
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Working Around the Garden

Posted: May 3rd, 2003 by Lisa

I got back on plan today. I wanted to start at one side of the perennial border and work my way around, instead of jumping from bed to bed and never getting any area completely finished. It’s all still a bit overwhelming when I look at how much there is still to get done, but

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Posted under Gardening, Hollyhocks, Horsetail, Roses, Splitting, Weeding, Yarrow, peony.
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