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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 5 months ago

Epithet Lesson

One of the best aspects of learning comes when you are able apply lessons learned to things near and dear. I was able to do this in one of the first lessons in my landscape design class.  The assignment: learn the meaning of many of the epithets – the second word that adds some sort of descriptor to the first (genus) botanical name.  Cool … I always wanted to be better versed in botanical names.  So I headed for my stack of plant magazines, then my notebook of info about the plants in my own gardens, and started my list.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 5 months ago

Embarking on a new journey

praying mantis 2 09-06 The gardening bug bit me years ago, and ever since I've tried to absorb as much gardening-related knowledge as my brain can hold. Gardening helps channel my appreciation for painting from a pallet of beautiful colors. It fills my need to soak up outside air, sounds, and sun. It allows me to decorate my home with the freshest bouquets of blossoms, branches and leaves, and load my family's plates with delicious, home-grown produce.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 5 months ago

Stars aligned to bring fall pleasures

Irving 11-22-09 November 23, 2009.  The stars aligned this weekend  - the combination of good weather, diminishing cold symptoms, and no other plans meant I had time to rake up, clean up, dig in, fence out, and generally prep for winter.  I had pots to empty and store, compost to turn, leaves to tend, and deer fencing to secure.  But my wanders uncovered a few surprises.  Irving watched as I discovered scabiosa, gazania, and salvia still blooming. 

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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 6 months ago

A Veggie-wrap, please.

volunteer cherry tomatoes November 20, 2009.  I would love to be growing salad greens and cilantro in outside beds as I have in the past,  but it's just not going to happen this year. The vegetable garden needs a major re-work that I hope to have at least partially done by spring, so outside of whatever I plant inside, growing edibles in Joene's garden is done.  So, with 2009 veggies tastes, smells, successes, and disappointments still fresh in my mind, here's my 2009 veggie-wrap.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years and 6 months ago

Garage growing can be beautiful …

DSC_2982 copy November 13, 2009. Three potted gerbera plants continue to reward for being moved into a sunny window in the garage.  All I've done since then is give them some water about once a week, and they keep giving back.  In a previous post I offered a photo I took of the last gerbera blossom.  But today my favorite photographer made the latest gerbera the subject of his lens.

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    • joenesgarden: So glad to know I brought an early morning smile, Benita.
    • Benita: Lovely post-early morning coffee and a stroll through the "garden of best friends is a lovely ritual for me, too. Thanks for instigating my happy garden grin this morning! Benita
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    • Andrew @ Gardening tips and Ideas: Clematis, Iris, Ferns and Peonies, all in one garden A true delight Thank you for sharing
    • joenesgarden: Laurrie, I hope you share photos of all these buds when they are in full bloom then I can enjoy yours when mine have passed peak.
    • Laurrie: Your blooms are lovely and precocious I think! Like Layanee's, my clematis is only in bud, yours are so much further along. And my iris (I have Beverly Sills too) is only budding, nowhere near open yet. How different each garden is, even in the same general area. Happy Spring!
    • Layanee: Your clematis are so much further along than mine. Mine are still in bud but I do have high hopes of blooms soon. It is a lusty month of May this year isn't it?
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