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GARDEN BLOGS: First snow, Chicago
Saturday. Fortunately it melted so that on Sunday I could plant the 20-odd Iris histrioides bulbs that I relocated here and that did not desiccate on the kitchen counter. ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ will be a welcome...
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GARDEN BLOGS: if they can do it…
so can I. Bloom that is, now. Right as the frost is getting serious, when the ratio of gray to sunny feels 20 to 1. What the heck is this tree and why does it...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Shards of fall
The radiators in this 115-year-old house are cranking, the drizzle is drizzling, weatherman says it feels like 27 F outside, and temps are trending downward into December. It feels like we just got here, but...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Happy Monday: Rolling On
I didn’t forget about you. How to rekindle things here has been on my mind often, but how do we catch up after 6 months, especially after so much has happened? You can’t all just...
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GARDEN BLOGS: I feel the earth move
Happy Bloom Day! I have absolutely nothing to show you that you haven’t seen on other northern blogs (brown. a few cold & lonely bulbs, shoots looking promising), and Craig’s snowdrops are miles ahead of...