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those spring things i was writing about

unfortunately it was overcast this morning when i took the photos, and i’m working on my laptop on the couch with a dog in my lap - otherwise i’d tweak the colors for more punch. but it’s a pretty accurate representation of what’s happening in the yard these days…

hellebore blossom
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hellebore
camellia
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camellia
heirloom snowdrop
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snowdrop
azalea budding
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azalea budding
tulip
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tulip

the harvest begins

wtvg, again


yellow pear tomatopatio tomato
super chilibanana pepper

monarda

monarda blossom

pictoors of the WTVG

unripe strawberryblueberrysuper chiligourd
parsleycaribbean red hotherb ball chivespumpkin

my white trash victory garden1

earlier this spring i finished the basic bricking of the 3 terraced beds in the front yard. 2-3 weeks ago we planted:

5 strawberry plants (several are blooming, and one has a little green strawberry)
12 tomato plants (2 lemon boy, 2 santa f1, 2 sweet 100s, 2 patio, and 4 yellow pear)
4 pepper plants (1 super chili - 4 fruit already, 1 caribbean red hot, 1 sweet banana and 1 golden bell)

in addition, due to some injudicious composting, we have about 7 pumpkin plants (several have set blossoms) and a plethora of small gourd plants erupting from the beds. and a lone resurrected persimmon tomato plant from an unfortunate pre-cold-snap planting that left a whole slew of tomato and cucumber plants dead.

i put herb balls in the edge of one of the beds, but they don’t seem to be doing very well. i also put 3 of the balls (thyme, chives and parsley) in a shallow pot next to the bed; those have germinated and seem to be doing well.
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1 that’s what a perpetually snarky and depressed friend called it. needless to say, he’s not gettin’ any tomatoes, if we should grow any.

rhododendron envy

i used to scoff at the utility of camera phones. until i started taking surreptitious photographs of other people’s shrubbery. alas, merrifield doesn’t seem to carry this variety. *sigh*

rhododendron time

the azaleas are looking like wet toilet paper now, so here are some cousins: be-yoo-tee-ful rhododendri.

purple rhododendron  red rhododendron  pink rhododendron

on mother’s day

my mother gave me a bunch of monarda, some rudbeckia (the maryland state flower, doncha know), a pot of vinca, a tangle of autumn clematis and one magnolia. oh, and five strawberry plants.

i gave her pulmonaria “spilled milk.” (lungwort! for mother’s day! brilliant!)

it was a good mother’s day.

(yesterday’s acquisitions: nasturtiums, osteospermum, petunias, snapdragons, and one of my favorite shade plants, bleeding heart.)

the prettiest azalea

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