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Bzzzz April 12th, 2013

I heard that lovely “beep…beep…beep” sound today that I associate with spring. No, it wasn’t a bird call. It was Chris, my UPS driver backing up after dropping off two big boxes of flower bulbs for my Maryland garden.

Spring! I love to walk around with the little dogs and see the garden awake.

Young yoshino cherry tree

I snapped my annual shot of a cute Papillion next to the young, flowering yoshino cherry tree. This year’s supermodel is Sarah.

The mixed daffodil bulbs are up and blooming by the driveway and near the hay field. There is a house I pass on the way to town with thousands of daffodils—all of the same variety. It’s quite a display. But I love the mix of all the different types of daffodils all mingled together. You can’t see them in this photo, but there are bunches of little muscari bulbs mingled among the daffs.

The edgeworthia that began blooming several months ago will soon be losing its flowers. This is a shrub that goes the extra mile with all-season interest. You can just see the flowering quince that’s about to burst forth in the background.

Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Snow Cream’

And speaking of plants with staying power, I love this lettuce mix that made it through the winter! But sadly, it is now chicken food since it is bitter. No worries though. I have a whole new crop of spinach and lettuce planted in the potager garden.

This year I am all about containers. The pansies and ornamental oregano make nice early spring transition plants. But I have big, big, big plans this year for containers!

Happy spring!

Posted In: Gardening

Tags: bulbs, daffodils, edgeworthia, lettuce, seasons, spring, Vegetables

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Bzzzz February 22nd, 2013

I have been doing a little bit of blog housekeeping this week. There is so much more I need to do, but I’m here to tell you that I finally finished up (I think) the 2012 garden album. From the composite page you can click on a photo to see a bigger picture. If you click on it again, you can see an even biggerer picture and can check my focus and look for weeds and stuff.

I also added a small album of photos I took at the Blaudel Reserve near Seattle Washington. The photos don’t even come close to doing the place justice, so really you just need to go and visit.

But wait! There’s more!!!

Over at my little Eggs & Chickens blog I have posted my review of the cookbook Flour by Joanne Chang. Go over there to read it and then click on the links to buy it from my little Amazon store. If 1,423,000 of you buy the book through my store, I can take some time off from my real job and still pay the cable television bill. Joanne Chang would probably appreciate it too. Thank you—from both of us.

Posted In: Blogging, Gardening

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Spring Arrives at My Maryland Garden

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