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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: June 2006
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Tuesday, June 13, 2006. Chris offers a cornucopia via photo. On his first night back, he and Annabella ate pizza from the freezer and veggies from the garden. There are record temps at home, so everything is crispy and already I'm hearing how arduous it is to water everyday. And yet he persists. Posted by Vivé at 9:45 PM. Monday, June 05, 2006. The Second-Hardest Thing About Leaving. Posted by Vivé at 6:16 AM. The Tran...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: April 2007
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Monday, April 30, 2007. I haven't been gardening long enough to have beds full of plants shared with me, or at least I didn't think I had been. The wonderful gardening tradition of passing along divided irises and wildflower seeds and drought-loving natives gone crazy in the ground is still new to me. She thought about it and said, "Yes, I did have a jasmine." We realized she'd given it to me when she moved away. One e...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: March 2008
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Saturday, March 15, 2008. As the garden returns after the winter, so I return to garden blogging. First, the fabulous bulbine that really hasn’t stopped blooming since last March, backed by purple trailing lantana. I hadn’t realized that gopher plant had a hint of red in its middle. Old blush rose in a pot peeks over the fence. Old fence, new fence, rose. Columbine looks cheerful and determined against a lavender wall.
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: June 2007
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Sunday, June 10, 2007. A Profusion of Susans: June Bloom Day. In less than 8 hours I'll be at the airport, off to overseas bloom adventures, and I've hardly got time to blog. But here's a quick and dirty of what's blooming in my garden just a few days before bloom day this June. Perhaps I'll have time to log on and tell you what's blooming in Rome on the real bloom day. Bee balm (horse mint, lemon mint). South of the R...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: April 2006
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Wednesday, April 26, 2006. I Didn't Expect To Be This Person! This week I gave a friend the little post-it in my calendar where I had written down this quote from Joseph Campbell:. We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. She needed it when I gave it to her. The life she'd planned had disappeared. This isn't what I'd planned. Which is why I know that someon...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: September 2007
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Tuesday, September 25, 2007. My favorite garden of the summer of 2007 was not my own. (We've been calling the entire property - garden, lawn, driveway - the Mekong Delta, but more on that later.) My favorite garden (and favorite spot, and favorite days) of the summer was at Vento di Rose. The idyllic B&B in Monterrubiano, Italy, where we spent five days in late June. Oh, and ask me sometime about breakfast! The details...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: April 2008
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Tuesday, April 29, 2008. For years, I've grown squash in my veggie bed. And for years, the experience has been predictable. The little squash plants grow big and impressive, showing off their yellow flowers like nobody's business. Take this photo from 2005, our first garden at this house:. Don't we look proud and hopeful? I have no idea. If I find out before the borers set in, I'll let you know. I hope my benefactor id...
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies: May 2006
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Something About Blooming and Butterflies. All work and no play? Not in the springtime! Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Being a Good Steward. And then she said, "But I'm learning to be a good steward of the house that I have.". My veggie garden, the one that yielded such an abundance of lettuce and arugula and chard and kale and broccoli raab all winter, the one where the tomatoes were now towering, was full up with grass. So much grass, so many weeds, that I couldn't grab oregano without grabbing grass along ...
