tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886906191319296612024-03-14T08:38:52.648-07:00Secret Cottage GardenDedicated to the garden spirits that live hereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-2348150090912750442010-01-26T15:48:00.000-08:002010-01-26T15:52:15.632-08:00My Bloomin' Jade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A step outside my door (the only one in my little cottage) and a few steps along my garden walk will bring you to one of the bloomers this time of year. My jade trees. Since it doesn't freeze here, they grow and grow and grow. If given enough water, their leaves are fat and juicy. Since I plant shade-loving plants like ferns and cyclamen under them, they get plenty of water. It's a lovely walk down my garden path with plants peeking out from under the jade trees.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">They are like any succulent. They have small root systems. With my generous watering, they can grow more than five feet high. One winter when the heavy rains came, I had quite a surprise. My jade trees started to fall over. The ground was too wet, their heads too heavy. The first one fell into my doorway. I opened my door to check on the heavy rain and there it lay. It gave a real jolt of pain to see one of my friends uprooted and laying the ground. That winter at least two more fell. It was an unexpected change to my garden path. I had to rethink my garden that spring.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I am a bit more experienced with the nuances of the jade tree. It needs to be well pruned, under four feet. Otherwise, the soft soil of the winter rains bring them down. I've had others to fall since that first winter. I want to keep the rest for the shade they offer to my garden plants and for the beautiful white flowers they bring in winter.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When they are at the height of their bloom, the petals and pistils turn a light shade of pink, reflecting the blossoms' stems of reddish hue. The edges of the jade leaves join in the melody of red at the edges of their leaves. Such a wonderful climax to the bloom-time.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Already in December there were masses of buds and some blooms. I crept out of my sick bed to take some photos. If you look into the blur on the right of the photo you can see the blooms still green, deep within their bud-beds.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am at last recuperating from the flu. As with those nasty bugs, they linger far longer than they are welcome. But my body is playing a fugue. When one illness/problem goes away, another emerges in similar theme. different voice. I now have frozen shoulder syndrome, a very painful condition of the shoulder that affects the whole arm and limits range of motion. Thus, I am not able to post or comment as much as I used to. Please forgive me. I miss my blogging hours, which I now have to limit to every few days. Hopefully this fugue will end soon and I can begin a new healthy body oboe sonata.<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-87108321980958786702010-01-11T18:46:00.000-08:002010-01-11T18:50:37.956-08:00January Roses<div style="text-align: justify;">As I emerge from the cocoon of my sick bed, I notice the roses blooming in all the gardens. I could see them blooming through my windows as I lay sick. I even crept out from under my covers once to take some photos. They are a joy this time of year. They will be pruned soon to make the plants strong for their splendiforous bloom in spring. So now to enjoy them.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The blaze of bright orange waved to me from the yard and I followed it as it budded and slowly opened.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Peace rose and Calamagrostic acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' grass<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-67684148126021664842009-12-07T16:10:00.000-08:002009-12-07T16:10:57.642-08:00Flu Season HereI'm sorry I've not been in blog-world for a few days. I have the flu and will be back as soon as I am up to it. Greetings to all my blog friends. Stay well.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-52498441338726060002009-12-01T16:58:00.000-08:002009-12-01T17:32:50.351-08:00Muse Day- December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">For more Muse Day posts see Carolyn at <a href="http://sweethomeandgardenchicago.blogspot.com/">Sweet Home and Garden Chicago</a>.<br />
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</div>My first 78 record was Blue on Blue when I was a teenager. I was never really fond of the song, but will never forget the title. Bobby Vinton was singing a song about having the blues. And this post is about the blues, but in my garden, inspired by Kiki at <a href="http://awakewithcharmandspirit.blogspot.com/">Awake with Charm and Spirit</a>.<br />
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First a huge thank you to two wonderful bloggers who have given me the best blog award.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I received it from Noelle at <a href="http://www.azplantlady.com/">Plants Tips and Guidelines for the Desert Garden</a> and from <a href="http://thevioletfern.blogspot.com/">The Violet Fern</a>. Am I lucky or what. I am a great fan of both blogs. Do go and visit them. I love so many blogs that I will defer to others to list the best blogs. They've done such a good job.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In general, I love blue, so have to hold myself back so that I do not paint all the wicker chairs blue. I'm due to repaint some of my flower pots blue. I really enjoy blue as an accent and flower in my garden.<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-12880501544046823622009-11-24T19:20:00.000-08:002009-11-24T19:20:24.933-08:00Wordless Wednesday- RosesAll roses found at <a href="http://www.arboretum.org/">LA Arboretum</a><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-86894975264869042972009-11-20T18:04:00.000-08:002009-11-20T18:11:34.051-08:00LA Arboretum: Trees<div style="text-align: justify;">I love the strength and stature of a tree. They are the old and wise beings of the plant world. As they grow older their beauty shines in a new way. Some of the Arboretum trees had this sort of beauty.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Underneath this tree you can see young peacock fowl. This Ceiba speciosa belongs to the same family as the baobob and is originally from South America. Being drought resistant it does particularly well in Southern California. The bark is very unusual with very large and stout thorns adorning it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right now it has pink flowers. Later in the year these flowers will become large pods from which silk floss will fall. This is how it gets its name. Now for the flowers, which shed such a beautiful shadow of pink on the ground.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This tree's leaves are beginning to turn in autumn's coolness. This tree is unusual, as it has no living relatives, all others being extinct. It's extinct relatives can still be found as fossils. It originated in China. It leaves bear a resemblance to the leaflets of the maidenhair fern, giving it the common name, Maidenhair Tree.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The silver glow of the bark never fails to inspire me. When I lived in Russia, I was able to see many large specimens of this tree in the forest. Russians love this tree and write many folk songs about it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Arboretum has some beautiful specimens of cacti and succulents.<br />
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Euphorbia tirucalli "Sticks on Fire" (Thank you, Noelle<br />
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But before sharing this plant with you, I have some other thank yous to make. Jo at <a href="http://jo-thegoodlife.blogspot.com/">The Good Life</a> has given me the Best Blog Award. I am honored. I just couldn't choose 15 of my favorite blogs as I have so many, so I won't be tagging anyone. But Jo is just great to have passed this award on. Kudos, Jo.<br />
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Also, I never thanked those who gave me the Honest Scrap Award. They were James at <a href="http://jamesmissier.blogspot.com/">Garden Chronicles</a> and Rosey at <a href="http://dunghoe.blogspot.com/">Dung Hoe</a>. I already answered this award <a href="http://secretcottagegarden.blogspot.com/2009/11/honestly-scrap-me-if-you-must.html">here</a>. A big thank you to both of you.<br />
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Garden blogging is such a community affair, as you see from the awards we pass on to each other. That's one of the things that keeps us connected and having fun at blogging.<br />
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A question to my readers. I have changed the color of my font to make it easier to read against the black background. Especially those of you who have trouble with font on black, please let me know if this is easier on your eyes. This blog is for you to enjoy and I want to make it that way. <br />
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Now back to my perfume plant, Osmanthus fragans.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It is such an understated plant to look at. Waxy leaves with slightly serrated edges. An unformed bushy appearance. But when it blooms noses turn toward it. Mine loves the cooler weather of autumn, winter and spring and is starting its blooming cycle. Just to walk past it is an mesmerizing experience. It smells like apricots and peaches, but more delicate and warm.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Osmanthus blooms on the old part of the plant, often the woody part, as you can see in the photo above. In researching this plant for this post, I just discovered this fact. I had pruned my Osmanthus late. Thus I'm getting lots of new green foliage, but no blossoms on this part. But this plant is so forgiving. It is giving me lots of blooms on the unpruned branches.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Osmanthus is from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmanthus_fragrans">China</a>, where it is beloved. It is also known as Sweet Olive or Fragrant Olive. There this plant is used in teas, perfumes, cooking. There are even festivals held in China just for this plant in flower. I received it from a Taiwanese neighbor as a gift. He told me it is used in more expensive perfumes. Perhaps some of our own favorite perfumes use Osmanthus as an ingredient. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-88304360875437520342009-11-09T12:34:00.000-08:002009-11-09T12:40:42.073-08:00I Blog Because...<div style="text-align: justify;">There have been a number of posts revealing the basic truth about the blogger, blogging, and other aspects of gardening that I have been inspired to join the ranks.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I blog because I came to a point in my life where that was what I needed and didn't even know it for quite some time. This has been a year of big transitions for me. I have been a dancer most of life, but thought I might need a better way to make an income as I grew older, so I went back to graduate school. I came to Los Angeles for the graduate program in Russian at USC. I loved all things Russian after living there and wanted to share it with others. It was that simple to me. But not that straightforward in a graduate program.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As I grow older I realize how little I really know myself. I had been doing artistic work for over 25 years and chose to go to graduate school. I had forgotten why I decided not to do just that after I completed undergraduate school in my twenties. I decided then that I wanted do all things artistic.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I didn't know what to do with myself after that. My health was shot. I had to sleep for hours during the day. I read, worked in my garden when I could and played internet solitaire. I did this for months, berating myself for not finishing the dissertation, while, on the other hand, realizing I should never have started it.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-12216254143065056792009-11-06T17:49:00.000-08:002009-11-06T19:39:28.775-08:00November Light<div style="text-align: justify;">I walk through the garden now and notice the changing light of November. The sun shines lower in the sky. And with this change comes the glow of November. Even here, where the leaves are not changing, but the temperatures are now in the 50s at night, the quality of the light changes. It is like transparent honey which is spread over the objects it finds. Sitting in the garden this afternoon as the sun moved toward sunset, I could see the shadows offset the golden yellow light streaming through the leaves and my bamboo fence.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Such looking brings me a great sense of peace and tranquility. Does the light enter me? Or does the concentration bring me to this state? I think both. Observing the garden rather than working in it can bring some new revelations. So I found myself sitting and letting the light move and change about me. And the mood followed me inside. Gifts of the garden and the gardener who observes. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I usually hide behind a few layers, so today I'll peel away a few and tell you some of the things about myself that I save in bottles on shelves in the many caves of me. Wander in with me and see what's there.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1. I lived in Moscow, Russia, for 4 years in the 1990s teaching a form of dance. I loved it, traveling as much as I could. I knew Russian from university and had always dreamed of living there. So this time was outside of time and in my dreams.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://rustyhoe.blogspot.com/">The Rusty Hoe</a> for all the unusual things she posts. She keeps me up-to-date on the world's unsusual.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.deborahsilver.com/blog/">Dirt Simple</a> for the really informative and artistic posts.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://gringaenparaiso.blogspot.com/">Las Frutas de Paraiso</a> for all things Nicuarguan and farming.<br />
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<a href="http://thecottageonthecorner.blogspot.com/">The Cottage on the Corner</a> for some beautiful photos.<br />
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<a href="http://thevioletfern.blogspot.com/">The Violet Fern</a> for the joy in sharing her lovely garden.<br />
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<a href="http://singaporeplantslover.blogspot.com/">Singapore Plants Lover</a> for all those Singapore plants.<br />
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Don't feel compelled to respond to the award, but it can be fun. To respond, copy the Honest Scrap award to your site and tell ten things about yourself. Don't forget to pass the award on to nine (or is it ten) other people. Let's get to know each other a little better.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-81163036116959053812009-10-29T16:01:00.000-07:002009-10-29T16:33:00.435-07:00Halloween and RemakeIt's that time of year. Halloween almost here. And time to remake beds in southern California. They do well if started in the late fall, can winter over in above-freezing temps and then grow into the spring. This gets plants established before the hot summer.<br />
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I am an informal gardener, so it's not always so easy to see the form in the way I've planted. But I like to plant where it seems to fit in my own quirky style. It can make for mess to the eye, until things get planted and grow. There's a method to my madness.<br />
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I certainly don't fit the organized gardeners of the first few categories in Nell Jean's post <a href="http://www.seedscatterer.blogspot.com/">What Kind of a Gardener are You?</a> The plan you see below is for record only. I made it after I got all the plants in place and like where they were. I knew generally what I wanted before I went to the nursery, but let my intuition be the guide once I got there. It seems to work for me.<br />
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One of my beds had an unusual number of plants on the wane this summer, so I've opted for more succulents and drought-wise plants. I did quite a bit of internet research before going to the plant store.<br />
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Here's the bed before I got any new plants in it. No pruning or transplanting done yet and some pots in places I think they might go. The bed is remade in three stages. This is the first.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Hope you can read the legend. I did print. Skeletal map above with S's marking the newcomer succulents. A few other new plants came into the plan during planting. I never could make a good outline of a paper until after I'd written it. This was the same. I made the plan after I tried out the plants in their pots on the bed.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I have such fun doing this sort of thing. Really brings out the creative juices. I get so into the garden that I overdo it. After the second stage I had to rest with all the bending and stretching. I've had some pinched nerves in my neck, affecting my arms, and all that work got them inflamed again. But I didn't feel a thing as I was working. Only after the fact. And I do have plenty of dirt ground into my hands and fingernails, despite quite a few scrubs. All worth it as I step out the door and look on my handiwork. Gotta love a remade garden bed. All that potential waiting for time to pass. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-87658578674435335352009-10-26T16:13:00.000-07:002009-10-26T16:56:44.197-07:00Butterfly LoveI finally got some photos of butterflies in my garden. Even though they were the same variety, it is very exciting. I had to click fast, because they certainly don't wait for you. They were flitting about most of the time, as butterflies are wont to do. So I learned patience. A moving object is just hard to photograph.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">They are common visitors in my garden, but so busy in flight, that I hardly get a close look at them. Here it is perched on a passion flower, favorite of the insects and hummingbirds.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-57861051849923689562009-10-23T13:10:00.000-07:002009-10-23T14:41:03.933-07:00Dedicated to her<div style="text-align: justify;">Fall 2006-- Trip to Northeast to visit friend dying of breast cancer-- beautiful autumn-- last time to see my friend-- this post and the beauty of fall dedicated to her<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This trip was to New York state, 2 hours north of the NYC. I'd lived there before I came to California and had a friend there to die of cancer the following spring. I flew out for a quick weekend to see her.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-6871875426946403882009-10-21T18:07:00.000-07:002009-10-21T19:05:13.839-07:00Moon PlantingIt's amazing that plants are so connected to the moon, as the sun and the seasons have a more obvious effect. I've learned in my gardening that they do. In the Farmer's Almanac there is a small section that describes gardening by the moon. The basic idea is to plant above ground vegetables when the moon is waxing and below ground vegetables when the moon is waning. There is next to this a section that describes the best moon constellations for planting, fertilizing, pruning, etc. They go in to times for special work in animal husbandry, as well. Since I have no animals, I don't pay much attention to that.<br />
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I like gardening with the moon. I've used the Farmer's Almanac suggestions and also a calendar by the name of Stella Natura. It is set up like a regular calendar and tells you when to work with certain kinds of plants according to the zodiac constellation the moon is in. Not so far from the Farmer's Almanac, just a slightly different take. <br />
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I've done my own experimenting by noticing when plants seem to do best, if I take all this moon advice. And I've discovered some patterns of my own. It can get to be a bit technical, if you don't keep a garden journal. But I just mark things on the calendar and note if the seeds came up, the transplant worked, or didn't, etc. Sometimes I just remember.<br />
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</div>I planted my fall garden seeds in old annual six-pack trays a week or so ago. I planted all the leaf seeds, the seeds of leafy vegetables, at what I though was the best time by the moon. They came up in two days.<br />
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They were sitting outside on the patio. I plant them this way rather than straight in the garden, as the squirrels are hard at work burying nuts. If I till and plant seeds, that's the perfect place for them to plant nuts, or so they think. So I'll give them a head start on the patio.<br />
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I am always so surprised when my seeds come up in record time. Ever since I've been trying to plant by the moon, this will happen to me. It doesn't happen every time, as I often don't select the very best time. It's a matter of connecting with my intuition and all the moon planting advice I've read, and then planting. It feels so good to get the right time. Sometimes I can sense that I've gotten the right time when I plant. I have the feeling that I've put the money in the right slot this time. Hope you understand what I mean.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the little fellows just coming up-- my lettuces and mesclun mix. Seedlings are terribly exciting for me. They have all the promise of big plants with a salad to offer or big blossoms to come. They are little plants coming into being. I love it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I find this part of gardening needs a delicate touch and a watchful eye. I have to be cognizant each day of the seedlings. They are easily disturbed at this point, by lack of water, too much sun, insects. But it is one of the more fulfilling parts of gardening-- watching a seed grow into a whole plant with leaves and or flowers. It can be a frustrating part, as well, when the seeds don't come up or they're struck down by something or other.<br />
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</div>The Glory Bower Bush is one of the gems of my garden. I keep it in a pot, as I've not a sunny enough spot to give it the room it would like to grow in. But it does happily in a pot.<br />
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It's Latin name is Clerodendrum ugandense, from the Verbena family. It can grow to 8 feet high and 8 feet wide and doesn't mind being trmmed back to 2-3 feet high to become bushier. Right now I keep it at 3-4 feet high and will trim it as it finishes blooming. It loves lots of water, which is another reason I keep it in a pot, so that it doesn't dry out in our heat waves.<br />
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It's buds are tight little ovals when preparing for bloom. They can even have a little color. They cluster tight together.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blossoms, buds, new vines abound on this plant. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Talk about passion in the garden, this passion vine is dong its best. Striking three-lobed leaves just never stop and on each stalk is a blossom and more buds. And don't you just love the three layers of this flower-- petals, second layer of petals, then pistils and stamens. It just wants to be looked at.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've tried to take pictures of this plant from every which-a-way to give you the idea of what's going on in this part of the garden. Passion is the only way to describe it. Now enjoy these last few and breathe in the life and joy of a passion flower in bloom.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, indeedy, I did. And look at the red splotching on the pistils. What a pistol this plant is!!!<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-23926293737302812312009-10-15T16:14:00.000-07:002009-10-15T16:16:58.617-07:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day- October 2009<div style="text-align: justify;">The blooms today are my old favorites: peony rose, begonia, passion flower, bird of paradise. We've had two days of rain-- most unexpected for us this time of year-- so the garden sparkles today. It's warm, so all the blooms that were in bud are coming out.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The peony rose ( I don't know it's botanical name, so if anyone has an idea, do let me know.) has got three blossoms and more buds. The other roses are busy giving me new blooms. Their stems have all gotten so tall that I will have to prune them back this winter. The garden is happy when the roses start to bloom again in the fall. The stress of summer is over and here, we still have weeks of warm weather, with the possibility of another heat wave. So goes our autumn in the Los Angeles area.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These begonias are the work horses of the garden this summer. No matter the weather they keep giving blossoms. You can see the shadows of the petals on this passion flower bloom. We have very nice clear skies today. A beautiful day.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Little honey bee, little friend asleep on my house, what passes before your anthropod eye? Do you see the garden around you or do you dream of the flowers you have seen?<br />
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</div>Now that the dust has settled from the house painters, the tree trimmers and the weather is a pleasant 75 degrees, the garden has started to look like home again. We swept, moved, rearranged and swept some more to get things back in order on the patio. <br />
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This rose is for <a href="http://www.blotanical.com/">Blotanical</a>. With it I offer my thanks to Stuart for starting this great gathering place for garden bloggers. I have found a family of bloggers who come visit me and support me in my rambles about my garden. And, thanks to Blotanical, I can visit oh so many blogs. It's like taking loads of garden tours in one day. I love it.<br />
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Sometimes I fall asleep with images from others' gardens in my head. What a wonderful way to fall asleep. My life is richer because of the gardener gathering made possible on Blotanical. I can never say enough thank yous. So I offer you my favorite peony rose in bloom as I write.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88690619131929661.post-63417918093795573562009-10-07T12:20:00.000-07:002009-10-07T18:03:52.975-07:00Spider Takes a Walk<div style="text-align: center;">Spider, spider, oh so light,<br />
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