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writersinthegrove.com
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| | | | The following was written by Writers in the Grove member, Patti Bond, as part of our month long prompt, garden. Trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetables, all these make up gardens. While I was growing up, we had a huge vegetable garden. My family planted cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, and pumpkins. I remember one Fall, we grew... | |
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theshrubqueen.com
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| | | | A simple summertime vase of tropical flowers. Step back and it looks like bunches of bananas. Or, depending on your flight of fancy, a flock of parrots. This is a mason jar filled with Heliconia psittacorum, common name, Parrotflowers. A favorite perennial in tropical gardens, these can run rampant when in their happy place -... | |
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oldherbaceous.com
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| | | | Our newly Zone 8a (we used to be 7b) garden is shivering with unusually cold weather: temperatures in the low teens at night, sometimes not rising above freezing even on sunny days. Because I have a number of newly planted shrubs and some cherished David Austin roses in big pots, and because we suffered plant... | |
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ricksplantworld.blog
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| | Weather-wise we have had a couple of light frosts at the beginning of the month and haven't had any appreciable rainfall for weeks. We have had no rain in May, only 18mm in the whole of April, and the dry weather is set to continue for at least another week. It has been fascinating watching... |