Kerry’s Garden

Walking in the yard a while back I noticed this crooked bamboo shoot coming up. How very strange…

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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 [...]

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This Miss Kim lilac is about 4 or 5 years old. I picked it up at a Kroger and left it in its 3 gallon pot for the first year. The following spring it went into this half barrel and has lived on the back porch ever since. Last year the flowers [...]

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Many people are surprised when I tell them I grow kiwi in Kentucky. No, not the fuzzy brown kiwis you can pick up at the local grocery. These are hardy kiwis, specifically Arctic Beauty. They are quite hardy, like the dappled shade and love to climb. A male and a female [...]

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I ordered a new WS-2310TWC weather station from Amazon a couple of days ago. It has a temp/humidity/pressure gauge, a rain gauge and a wind gauge. It will connect to the indoor base unit either via cable or wireless. It comes with software to upload the weather data to your computer [...]

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I saw a hummer visiting our tulips this morning which reminding me of the hummingbird feeder that I picked up on Monday. Time to get that bad boy out and filled with some sugar water.
I picked up two stevia plants last night while at Lowes getting plumming parts to fix the broken faucet. [...]

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I’ve been so busy doing stuff in the garden that by the time I get in and get cleaned up I am too pooped to post. Saturday I went to Eric’s. The weather called for some rain in the morning so I finally put my rain barrels out. We didn’t end up [...]

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