🌿 gardening
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Unwelcome severance
That. That is the severed stem – one of several! – of a truly lovely magnolia blossom snap pea that was just beginning to transition from the occasional blossom to…
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Sun & rain: six-on-Saturday garden update
The day started with a low gray drizzle, mist over the southern hills and the sound of dripping echoing in the drainpipes. Mid-morning, however, the weather cleared. I spent the…
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The garden, late January, 2021 (!)
Here it is already, late January, the last Saturday in the month. Over the past several weeks I’ve thought about and not written half a dozen blog posts: on the…
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Tomato as perennial, and other mysteries
Mid December, and not much rain. I’ve been looking around the garden, and thinking things like should weed and time to prune, but then the sun goes on shining and…
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Six-on-Saturday garden report: early December
The rain hasn’t really begun, and the roses are still blooming. I turned the watering system off, then on again when I realized that November’s barely-there rain-slash-mist wasn’t going to…
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Six on Saturday: Garden Report
Since the California fires started a few weeks back, I haven’t spent as much time in the garden as I usually would. There’s just been too much smoke. Now the…
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