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GARDEN BLOGS: Dragon Wing Red Begonia: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day Decembe...
This spring, Ball Horticultural sent me some Dragon Wing Red Begonias to trial in my garden. My sister-in-law had told me that she dug up and potted her wax begonias, wintered them over as houseplants,...
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GARDEN BLOGS: New Flowers From An Old Friend: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ...
Long time readers may remember Craig Levy, who wrote for this blog for a number of months, and then went on to other things. This spring he emailed me, asking, “Would you like more plants...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Bountiful Blooms: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2011
The plentiful rain and lack of frost that characterized this spring is still bearing fruit. I can’t remember ever seeing my daylilies so floriferous. The whole garden has a feeling of lushness that I soak...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Time: The Essence of a Garden (Garden Notes, No. 5, 2011)
Herbert Butterfield’s essay (The Whig Interpretation of History) was an attack on liberal triumphalism [i.e., the 'Whig interpretation']…Whig history purveyed a concept of progress as the central theme of English history…It has become common among...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Spring, Spring, Where Are You? Garden Bloggers Bloom Day A...
This slow, cold, cloudy spring is sorely trying my patience. It’s taking forever for anything to bloom. But then, looking over past GBBD posts, it’s really not that far behind other springs. It’s just that...