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Archive for June, 2003
the black cat
Our garden is being terrorized by a black cat.
I’ve written about it before in these pages. It’s apparently a feral cat who first appeared in the winter, and is now seen in our back garden on almost a daily basis. At first it wore a pink collar but now that has disappeared. […]
garden tourism
It was 95 degrees here this afternoon. Too hot to work but not too hot to tour gardens.
The Water Garden Society sponsored a tour this afternoon with dozens of gardens open. Too often this tour is a disapointment to plant people because the water gardens can turn […]
missing lettuce
Regular readers here may remember my lamentations over the lack of a lettuce crop. Well it turns out we could have lettuce after all.
I needed to pot up a large plant a couple weekends ago that was a gift. Being out of potting soil and not wanting […]
new bulb source
Tejas Native Bulbs is a new resource for native plant enthusiasts that I learned about this week. They have a small selection and some of them are not that hard to find in nature. I may splurge and order some celestials.