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Archive for May, 2004

caterpillars

Posted: Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 10 Comments »

The fennel out near the street is now over six feet tall and covered with caterpillars that grow into black swallowtail butterflies. We don’t object to their eating the fennel. In fact it is mostly for their benefit that we grow it.
However fennel is a fairly nice plant to grow anyway. […]

day trip

Posted: Saturday, May 15th, 2004 in another roadside attraction | 3 Comments »

Lately we have been exploring some of the smaller nearby towns. Today we resumed the series of weekend journeys that had been interupted by the family picnic and then house guests last weekend.
This time we headed northeast to a little college town called Commerce where Tricia wanted to revisit a quilt […]

gratuitous peony photo

Posted: Friday, May 14th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 5 Comments »


changing seasons

Posted: Wednesday, May 12th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 4 Comments »

As I stepped out this morning to go to the car, I was greeted by the first daylily of the season. This is is the only one to even have buds on it yet, in fact.
My lantana is just beginning to bloom and there are a few pink flowers on the skullcap that I […]

annuals

Posted: Monday, May 10th, 2004 in outside in the garden | 2 Comments »

Most advice I’ve read about gardening advises to plant perennials. That seems to be based on the assumption that annuals will only last one year. If that is true then perennials would be the better value not just for the dollar spent but for the labor of putting them in. They get […]

 

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