Gardens

Crocuses And Fall

by Beca October 11, 2011

Tweet Arriving home after being away for six days at The 12th Gathering was like being away a whole season. It was the beginning of fall when we left, but while we were gone the trees changed colors and leaves had dropped to the ground, starting that lovely patchwork carpet they create every year. When [...]

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Fall Fun

by Beca September 22, 2011

Tweet This partly a garden post, and partly about something we have done the past few years in September, that I always enjoy – because it is so simple! First the garden! This time of year I love walking the garden to prune. Today I cut down the lilies, and many of the iris leaves. [...]

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Summer’s End

by Beca September 13, 2011

Tweet Strange that my last post was at the height of summer, and now – a month later – everything is winding down. Time moves so slowly in some ways and so fast in others! The Cinnamon Ferns are gone, leaving behind their spore-bearing stems, which to me should be the reason they are called [...]

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Garden Update

by Beca July 15, 2011

Tweet It’s easy to see it’s summer! Ears of corn have started to grow on the first corn we planted. The yellow squash and peas are abundant, and some cool ‘easter-egg’ squash is growing. Plus the bright colors of sunflowers, echinacea, black-eyed susans, and even some lilies remain. There are a lot more things blooming, [...]

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Mid-Summer Garden

by Beca June 26, 2011

Tweet Even if the weather does not always co-operate, the garden will always tell you the real season. I know it is mid-summer when all the bright flowers, like lilies, start to bloom. Of course the calender says the summer has just begun, but all gardeners know that it is really mid-summer. With all the [...]

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Matchy – Matchy In The Garden

by Beca June 16, 2011

Tweet Color in the garden. It is one of my favorite things about it. I love walking out each day to see what has bloomed, and what colors have made their appearance that I can marvel over. There is one thing that always both surprises and delights me – when colors on one plant match [...]

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Peonie’s and Hoops

by Beca June 9, 2011

Tweet When we moved into our home a few years ago we inherited many peony bushes. I had never grown them before so I was astonished at how big they got and how easy they are to break apart and move to different parts of the yard. I also love the lovely scent of one [...]

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What’s up in the garden ..

by Beca June 2, 2011

Tweet This week we finished planting our vegetable garden. The last plants to go in were the asparagus. Although we can’t harvest them this year, my mouth is already watering in anticipation! Yesterday we spent the entire day in the garden. It was hard work for us, but a complete annoyance for a robin who [...]

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Evergreens love the rain

by Beca May 29, 2011

Tweet I swear, I am going to make this the last post that mentions rain for awhile. But, this is a good one. Although it has been hard on the humans who wanted to go outside and play in the garden, it wasn’t hard on the trees.

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Where does this bridge think it’s going?

by Beca May 26, 2011

Tweet We had a big storm last night. There have been many this spring, but this one was the biggest yet. Want to know how big? Big enough that our little tiny stream swelled and surged enough to displace our bridge. I see some waders in my future because the only way to get across [...]

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Starting the vegetable garden

by Beca May 13, 2011

Tweet Yesterday, instead of doing our business work, we started our vegetable garden instead. Finally the ground had dried out enough to till. However, rain was predicted – lasting for days – so if we were going to plant, that was the day. Which turned out to be true! We got half of the garden [...]

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The Arboretum at Penn State

by Beca May 11, 2011

Tweet I grew up in State College, PA, and even though I left as soon as I could to be adventurous and move to California (which at that time was a far off distant land), I still think it was the best place ever to grow up. My mom and dad stayed there as Dad [...]

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A red tulip day!

by Beca May 5, 2011

Tweet This morning I looked out my window and didn’t see rain! It has rained fairly steadily since the last time I said it stopped raining – for that day. I knew that no rain meant that today was a day both Del and I would head out into the yard and “get stuff done” [...]

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