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| Click to expand-Great Blue Heron |
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| Great Blue Heron, powerful neck extended |
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| After The Rain |
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| West Wind Sweeping the Ice Out |
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| Ice is almost out and the loons are back |
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| Planted in December |
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| Tracks in New Fallen Snow |
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| Sunset on Ice, Open Water |
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| In the mixed border, hardy for zone 4, there are the perennial floribunda rose, the daylily or Hemerocallis, the lysimachia, and the gaillardia. This provides a succession of bloom. The annuals verbena and marigold are added and will bloom continuously all summer if dead headed, the marigold being the most continuos and floriferous with verbena a close second in this planting, but not as good as the marigold. Insect problems are mainly beetles. We use an infusion of scented geranium, hoping it wont hurt the birds. The beetles attack the roses and sometimes the marigolds. Day lilies, when they are in bloom, benefit appearance wise from daily grooming, that is removal of the withered flowers. It also encourages strong root growth and multiplication of the plant. Allowing the seed heads to form can result in seedlings which are of a different color, probably reverting to the common orange of the species eventually. If you have pink roses, be sure to choose yellow day lilies, not as we did. We actually started with the daylilies, which were a wonderful deep copper color, then the following year, added the roses which clearly should have been yellow or white, anything but pink. How did it happen? It was spring. We went shopping. The roses were budded, the pink showing, the plants laden with buds, the foliage healthy and lush. They almost walked into the back of our SUV. In place in the garden, they soon began blooming with the most spectacular display. Just as the bloom began to diminish, out popped the deep copper day lilies. What will we do now? Well, when the coveted yellow day lilies appear (promised from son's garden) we will get busy. We'll update with photographs if it ever happens.
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| New England Woods- Click to Enlarge |
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| From Loren Larkin |
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| What a great photograph from Loren Larkin. Be good to yourself and go to her website.to see a full size view of the photograph. Thank you, Loren, for allowing us to publish this special photograph.
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| Easy to lose him once he's off the road |
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| The wonderful world of plants. Whorls of yellow flowers growing along the stems bloom all at one time. |
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| This little beauty should be better known. It is trouble free and when the beetles are devouring the roses and the geraniums and beginning to look like a battle zone, lysimachia remains untouched. When it receives its pruning in mid-summer. I take the cut-offs and root them. Before winter sets it, some will go to friends and the rest will be planted in a sheltered position until they pop out again the following spring for moving to their permanent spots. Lysimachia likes sun, not wind, and is not particular about soil.
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| Floribunda Rose in the Early Summer |
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| Mid Summer Bouquet on Coffee Table |
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| Charles River by Penney Stone(c)2008 |
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| Cherry Blossoma by Penney Stone(c)2008 |
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Walking along the charles River in Boston in the spring is probably one of the best things about Boston. Yhe cherry trees, moved from one spot to the other seem happy enough in their new homes and the whole area is a feast for the eyes.
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| Ice Floes at Easter (c) Ruth Graham |
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| Ice Floes at Easter |
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| Sun on Ice Laden Tree Tops |
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| Courtesy of Roy Posthoff |
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| A Lone Visitor |
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So you think you have toadstools and other fungi growing in your garden. Well here's one for you, popping out in the woods. You can see its relative size against the 2 inch leaves in the background.
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| Edible? Poisonous? There's a lot of it. |
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