Kerry’s Garden

This beauty didn’t make it through Eric’s judicious ‘thinning’ of unwanted plants. If I remember correctly this was one of his demo plants for the garden talk this spring. He was talking about pitching it and I offered to give it a home. It has rewarded me several times this summer with blooms. I am [...]

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I had a friend come over and pick raspberries on Thursday morning. On Friday morning I picked and ended up with about 6 cups. I picked this morning and now have a gallon of berries waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Half will probably be frozen and the other half given [...]

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I was out and about this afternoon and ran into this guy on my butterfly bush. I believe it is a Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird Moth. At first glance I thought it was a rather large bumblebee. I couldn’t get a good look at it’s wings as it never sat still long enough, preferring to hover [...]

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Both of the Nanho blue buddleia (butterfly bush) are in full bloom and the butterflies are loving it. The flower bed is looking full this year. The spring rains have really done a lot of good. Like pretty much everything around here they really suffered last summer with the drought. Though we picked up almost [...]

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First up is Darlow’s Enigma. This one is still quite small but it has an awesome scent. Ok Eric says that the name rose is much to dainty for this one. I believe his exact word was ‘strangler’. This Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose is on it’s third year. It gets full sun early in the [...]

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I had naively thought that the deer issue last summer had to do with the drought. Not so. Apparently there is at least one deer that has found my garden and enjoys the fruits of my labor on a regular basis. About 4 or 5 of the tomato plants I planted last week have been [...]

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For the most part the vegetables are in. I had planned on getting more done this weekend but I do tend to plan more than I can accomplish. I had to work with the tiller a bit to get it to start. It had some old gas in it from last year. Last spring some [...]

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