Archive for 'water lily'
Posted: August 19th, 2003 by
Lisa
The pond is very pretty these days, and very full of algae. The water is clear, but we’re constantly pulling out netfuls of the stuff. I’m sure we’ve got too many animals in there: The nine remaining big fish are twice the size they were when we bought them, (much faster growth than our first
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Posted under Algae, Barley Ball, Fish, Pond, Reviews, water lily, water plants.
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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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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: May 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
The stuff we ordered last month from Waterplants online from Colorado finally got here today. Though I’d ordered everything they had for zone 4, they were out of some stuff, so my $160 order turned into $98.25 with shipping. Everything came bare root, but I had some left over pots from previous attempts at water
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Posted under Blackflies, Frogs, Pond, Pump (pond), water lily, water plants.
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Posted: July 20th, 2002 by
Lisa
We were both out of town all week last week, and quite concerned about how the garden would do without any attention at all. It’s maintaining itself remarkably well, considering how little I’ve been home to tend to it. While it did rain last night, things are still very dry, and the poor lawn isn’t
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Posted under Bee Balm, Bees, Chrysler Imperial, Delphinium, Fish, Frogs, Gardening, Grow lights, Lamb's Ear, Lavender, Planting, Pond, Soil, Veronica, water lily.
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Posted: June 29th, 2002 by
Lisa
We were up very early this morning, getting ready for the Garden Tour, and I made a list of the stuff I thought had to be done. We even finished it all in time to go see the houses on the tour before ours, which was surprising. The pond was in fine form, with water
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Posted under Frogs, Garden Tour, Mosquito Magnet, Pond, Reviews, Self, Visitors, Window Boxes, water lily, water plants.
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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: June 12th, 2002 by
Lisa
We worked on building some more compost bins today. We’ve filled up the ones we have already, between the weeds, grass clippings and the coffee grounds we get from the coffee shop. An no, I do not want to stop getting those grounds. Our soil is so poor we need all the compost we can get. We are mixing it with shredded paper. We had to get a bigger one last weekend, because we, er, burned out the other one from too much use. This new one — much nicer. Eats cardboard boxes like cereal boxes without blinking. The lupines, water lilies and irises are all in full bloom right now. Driving up to the house, the garden just looks spectacular. Why isn’t the garden tour today?!
Posted under Building, Compost, Garden Tour, Gardenporn, Iris, Lupine, Pond, Shredder, water lily.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2001 by
Lisa
The pond is going pretty well. Not bad for our first season, anyway. We seem to have a handle on the algae, anyway. We know we still need more plants, though. Up at the top, in the little mini-stream that runs into the pond, the mint that we planted on one side has shot out
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Posted under Algae, Mint, Pond, water lily, water plants.
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Posted: August 11th, 2001 by
Lisa
I just never wanted to come inside the house today. The weather was about as perfect as I could ask for, and I hadn’t been out there weeding all week as I was out of town. I was afraid that the weeds would have taken over, and I was right to be worried! Wow, do
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Posted under Driveway, Fish, Frogs, Irrigation, Phlox, Weeding, water lily.
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