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Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
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Dang, It’s Gonna Be Cold.
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This was from December 4, the neighbor girls made a very cute little snowman. It’s going to be cold enough that, were he still around, he’d be good for almost 2 days, instead of the 8 hours he was with us in December.
I hate the cold.
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ~ December
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Find more blogger’s blossoms at Carol’s place. She’s the inventor of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.
Mini Roses enjoy the view from my sunny window.
Truth be told I don’t care for my house all that much. It’s old and desperately in need of updating. But, it has this bright, sunny [...]
Almost Wordless Wednesday - December 16, 2009
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
Today I will be, hopefully, returning from an expedition to Nepal. I say ‘expedition’ because that is the correct term for a trip of this type. I am hoping to have pictures of interesting people, plants and landscapes and I offer this as an explanation for my recent lack of [...]
Jobs and Blessings
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
No, I’m not looking for a new job. In fact, I emailed my good boss the day I was coming home and told him that I hoped he could fit me in somewhere on the schedule, and before I got halfway between Victoria and Houston, he was calling my cell [...]
Coming Home
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I didn’t want to post this too soon, as we’ve been told we’re going home before, and it didn’t happen.. but.
I think we’re going home tomorrow.
Just in time for me to put the frost covers on my plants.
sigh.
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Wordless Wednesday-December 2, 2009
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
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Maniacal Ovens and Spritz Cookies
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
If you bake one cookie this holiday season,
make it a Spritz
Spritz, the yummiest of all the buttery little morsels, are made with a cookie press. If you’re a perfectionist, that should give ya fits.
It’s not so bad for me because we generally eat all the dough before the oven [...]
While I Was Napping…
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
I hope you’re not weary of my indoor roses.
It’s all I’ve got growing right now!
I suppose this was bound to happen at some point. Not so much an ‘if’ as a ‘when.’ As in… when will I get socked with that nasty flu?
The happy ‘clutter’ in my kitchen [...]
Tuna Haters To Die For Tuna Marinade
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Hazel’s Zinnias
On Tuesdays, we round up the usual suspects and cook a special dinner. It’s not easy. There’s the 2 teenagers who prefer every meal be mac ‘n cheese. There’s a happy little carnivore who thinks bacon in mac ‘n cheese might be dee-lish.
And, then there’s the pescatarians. Fish [...]
The beginning or the ‘End of the Line’? Wordless Wednesday - 11-11-09
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Common milkweed - Asclepias syriaca
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Fix’er Up…
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My sister is still working on getting her new house in a better condition. It’s a solid house, but needed a lot of work, after having been neglected for the past 10 to 15 years.
It was amazing how many of the original fixtures were still in the house. I think [...]
Dear Santa
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Dear Santa,
Knowing that you are going to have a lot of demands on your hands for Christmas things this year, I’ll try to make my requests simple and few.
Okay.. at least…not complicated and not very many.
I’ll work on it!
First of all, I don’t want you to spend too much money [...]
Garlic - Allium sativuum
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
Fall may be the end of the growth cycle for most of the plants in the garden but it is just the beginning for garlic. That is one of the reasons why I have planted it in the past and again this fall. There is the reward of plunging one’s [...]
XXL Micro Minis!
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
These great, big photos celebrate the tiniest flowers blooming in my sunny window:
That sweet little bud I discovered on Saturday has blossomed into a perfect micro-mini rose. Shown here, much bigger than life, she’s about the size of a quarter.
I was so very excited about my baby pinks that [...]
Radiating Happiness
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New bud on my indoor micro-mini roses. When fully opened, her flowers are about the size of a quarter.
I’m blessed (and a little bit cursed) with a very sunny house. So sunny the furniture fades and it’s hard to watch t.v. until the sun goes down.
Kalanchoes in desperate need [...]
Buyer Beware
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
They all look the same, lounging in the field. But, they were bred for different purposes, so buyer beware…
Jack O’Lanterns were hybridized to ward off evil spirits and provide a riotous good time when you steal them from the neighbor’s porch and smash ‘em in the street.
Heirloom Variety Pie [...]
Hell’s Half Acre
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Yes, it’s snowing.
Yes, that’s early.
Yes, I’m none too thrilled.
Was trying to be kind to a California Gardener this a.m. asking about high altitude gardening. Perhaps I should have just sent him this photo.
I’m not sure what I enjoy more ~ Gardening. Or, complaining about my garden.
Question: What’s your growing [...]
Pink Tuesday
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Doubtful I could endure winter without the happy blooms of Alstroemeria.
Or, pink Cyclamen gracing my indoor garden.
Yeah, yeah. I know it’s still October but the weather never lies.
In the midst of a winter snowstorm here, today.
Windowsill African Violets don’t seem to mind…
Look closely.
Ms. African Violet’s kid sister is [...]
Wordless Wednesday - October 28, 2009
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
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Living Large
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
If I had a billion, ca-zillion dollars, I think I’d have a lot of homes a lot of different places. Not all of them would be houses… in fact, after visiting Chicago this last summer, I’ve come to realize that it is a very livable city…in the summer.
The winter is [...]
Home Away From Home
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While my mom is here in Victoria, we’re renting a room in an extended stay hotel. It’s a nice suite, with a full sized refrigerator and a stove top, microwave, and dish washer. The fridge has an ice maker and is nice, though I do rather wish it were equipped [...]
Climbing hydrangea, Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
I have written about this plant in the past. It is a charmer in flower and the foliage is nice enough most of the rest of the year. The leaves are rounded ovals with a slight serration and a dark green, glossy appearance. This vine is hardy from zones 4-7 [...]
iCameras and My Discomfort Zone
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
If I’d had my wits about me, we would have hiked in lower elevations to enjoy the last of the lovely weather.
Enough with the music already. Isn’t it about time Apple invented the iCamera? As in a tiny contact lens I wear in my eye? All I gotta do [...]
Leaf Peeping in City Creek Canyon
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Last week’s Friday Afternoon [Hiking] Club took us along a civilized route in the Salt Lake City valley.
Few trees have shed their leaves in my neck of the woods. But, that’s mostly because Park City doesn’t have any ‘woods.’
I sometimes miss the majestic deciduous trees we find in the [...]
