Beltane Full Flower Moon Beware success with perennial flowers. I have, long ago, mastered the art of growing asiatic lilies, iris and day lillies. To my occasional regret. The asiatic lilies are not too much of a problem though even they live long and prosper, therefore sometimes making a nuisance of themselves. Iris and day […]
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Beltane Full Flower Moon The full flower moon rises tonight on beds full of daffodils, tulips, snowdrops and small blue flowers whose name I don’t recall. The furled hosta leaves that come up in a tightly packed spiral have begun to uncurl. Dicentra have full leaves now, though no flowers yet. A few iris have […]
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81 bar falls 29.88 1mph NNE dew-point 65 sunrise 6:22 sunset 8:09 Lughnasa Waning Gibbous Corn Moon Moving daylilies today. At last. Moved several large clumps of daylilies to new beds where they will provide a barrier between wild vegetation on the hill below seven oaks and the more domesticated garden to the southwest. This […]
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