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Archive for March, 2004

spring flowers

Posted: Sunday, March 21st, 2004 in outside in the garden | 3 Comments »

Lot’s of new flowers in the garden and more just days away.
That is spirea in the picture below. We also have candytuft, phlox, roses (rouletii, martha gonzales and mutabilis), four-nerve daisy, and salvia greggii.
The first blooms are appearing on the white wisteria and in a few days we will have blooms on […]

redbuds

Posted: Thursday, March 18th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 10 Comments »

Tuesday I had to mow my lawn. We’ve been having so much rain lately that it was starting to look out of control.
Today it actually seemed warm. Redbuds are at the height of their glory all over town. We have roses too. I saw several blooms on […]

more on cats

Posted: Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 in ailurophilia | 4 Comments »

It’s been awhile since I’ve mentioned my cats and I need to bring you up to date.
Sapphire has lately decided to require that we feed her special treats on the counter next to the kitchen sink. She enjoys having that kind of special privilege which the others are denied. She also […]

locking the door

Posted: Monday, March 15th, 2004 in blogging and technology | 5 Comments »

This last week I seem to have been a special target of comment spam. You would think that a blog devoted to gardening would be immune from this. Now that I have the “Recent Comments” list on the sidebar they get prominent exposure on the main index so it is important to […]

daffodils

Posted: Sunday, March 14th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 2 Comments »

Daffodils are everywhere this week. Why is it that I have never planted daffodils? Strange oversight. They are undeniably a pretty flower.
All week long though I have not been able to get a rhyme out of my head. It’s something I read in MAD when I was a boy.
I wandered […]

 

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