tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83180746633854813742024-03-04T23:35:18.280-08:00Bonney LassieAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comBlogger1099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-87058656611613427072020-01-21T09:22:00.000-08:002020-01-21T09:22:14.134-08:00It's Gonna Be a Helluva YearI'm pretty sure this year, 2020, is going to go down as the year I was officially declared insane. I might actually have to buy a straitjacket and wear it before the year ends. How much do you think it will cost for me to turn one of my bedrooms into a padded room?<br />
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In the early spring we are heading down to California for a very quick, 2 1/2-day, 3-night, final visit to Disneyland. I say "final" because Nigel, who works for The Walt Disney Company, plans to retire this year, which means the end of inexpensive hotel stays and free park entry. Although I pretty much hate travel, I am looking forward to it, because...Star Wars! <br />
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The parks do such a great job with landscaping, and I'm very curious to
see what kind of plants they have put in that they think might evoke an
alien planet. Nigel was there last fall and texted me photos of the Star
Wars area, but that's not quite the same as actually having eyes on it.
There were some Grevilleas and Aloes, but one area that Nigel texted me
was full of ornamental cabbages. I'm not sure Nigel knew they were
cabbages, but he sent me a text that said "Look! Space cabbages!"<br />
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In the early summer we're both hopping on a 9-hour trans-Atlantic flight and going to England and Scotland for 2 1/2 weeks of touring. This trip is a BIG DEAL, at least for me. The last time I was in England was at least 15 years ago, to visit Nigel's mum (who has since passed away), and the last time I was in Scotland (where my mum was born) I was in college, too many years ago to count. We plan to start out spending a few days in London, and then we're going to Yorkshire (where Nigel's parents are from) for about a week, followed by a week in Scotland, and finishing up with a few days back in London. I have a long list of gardens and historical places I plan to visit, including Kew, Scampston Hall, and the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens. Nigel spent his teenage and college years in Edinburgh, and he wants to show me his old neighborhood and the public school he attended. Nigel is an "old boy" of George Watson's College, which is what they call a secondary school. It's co-ed nowadays, but I'm pretty sure it was boys-only back in the olden days when Nigel attended.<br />
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So yeah. I hate traveling, and this trip is to another continent. On the other hand, I'm also excited to be seeing many great English and Scottish gardens, not to mention historical sites like the Tower of London and the Roman wall around York. We do not plan to rent a car. Nigel's eyesight is not good enough for driving, and I don't dare to even attempt driving on the other side of the road. Once we arrive, we plan to travel solely by railroad, London Underground, and on foot, which they say is better for the environment. (We'll just ignore that long-ass plane trip...)<br />
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Speaking of travel and being anxious -- I did something else just before Christmas that makes me wonder if I completely took leave of my senses. I volunteered to be part of a committee that will be hosting the <a href="http://gardenbloggersfling.blogspot.com/">Garden Bloggers Fling </a>in the Puget Sound area in 2021. The other members of the hosting committee are Debbie Teashon, who writes the website <a href="http://rainyside.com/">Rainyside.com</a>, Peter Herpst, who used to blog at <a href="http://outlawgarden.blogspot.com/">Outlaw Gardener</a>, and gardener Camille Paulsen, who is the business membership director with the <a href="https://www.northwestperennialalliance.org/">Northwest Perennial Alliance</a>. I'll be returning from England the day this year's Fling starts in Madison, WI, so I won't be going. Guess what? None of the other members of our team will be going either! I'm sure we have a lot of hard graft and sleepless nights ahead of us. Our plan is to share many of the gardens that were in my post <a href="https://bonneylassie.blogspot.com/2019/12/all-other-things-part-i.html">All The Other Things Part I</a>, as well as loads of others.<br />
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All of that means the real hard work on the Fling will probably start as soon as I get back from my trip to England. But of course, once Nigel retires at the end of the year, he can help me out. I can hear him now negotiating with bus companies.<br />
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The malaise that sets in at the end of every gardening season hasn't lifted as much as it usually does. Normally by January I'm back outside cutting back last year's spent perennials and working on making changes to the garden, but so far I still feel kind of blah. I didn't make any New Year's goals at the turn of the year. To be honest, before Christmas I was considering giving up blogging.<br />
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However, I have always wanted to be a writer, since I was very young. At one point I wanted to be a creative writer, and write science fiction, or mysteries. The blog does fulfill my need to write. So I guess I'll keep at it a while longer. <br />
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I'm also not getting any younger. My birthday always comes at the end of the year, so by the end of 2020 I'll be another year into my 60s, and creeping decrepitude.<br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-18605993746116970232020-01-08T04:00:00.000-08:002020-01-08T04:00:01.255-08:00Wednesday Vignette -- The Lurie Garden in JuneWay back in June 2019 I visited Chicago for one day and visited the Lurie Garden, a bucket list item for me. I deliberately chose early June because I knew that was when the blue and purple Salvia "river" would be in its most glorious flower, and I wanted very much to see that. There are plenty of other fabulous plants growing there, that flower on and off all season. I think people who live nearby must be very lucky to be able to see the Lurie Garden at all times of the year, but then of course, I live near Heronswood, and I wouldn't trade that for any other garden.<br />
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Anyway, here's an image that I captured when I was there, that I'm sharing for my Wednesday Vignette this week.<br />
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Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette every Wednesday. Check out her post <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/">here</a>.<br />
<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-46250374692005180492020-01-05T04:00:00.000-08:002020-01-05T04:00:01.471-08:00All The Other Things Part IIWarning: There is no gardening in this post.<br />
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I've mentioned in a few previous posts, and in previous years, that I tend to get disenchanted with both gardening and blogging once Fall arrives (although Fall is in fact one of my favorite seasons, because of the return of the fall rains, which means I can haul in the hoses and sprinklers and stop artificial watering -- not to mention I sweat less, because hot weather and I are not friends). I've attributed this flagging spirit to a variety of things -- the fading of sunlight and its concomitant drop-off in Vitamin D, or the end of the gardening season, the dying of growing things, and the end of gardening activity, although that doesn't make a lot of sense either, since there is always work to do out there -- leaves to pick up, weeds to pull, plants to cut back, every month of the year in this climate. I've also sometimes attributed my end of year depression to the holiday season and its forced jollity.<br />
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But I recently read an article about burn-out and have started wondering if maybe that's it. Have I become so burnt out from gardening and blogging by Fall that somehow my mind and body have forced me to stop and engage in a kind of season of self care (i.e., enforced laziness)?<br />
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Anyway, for the last few months I haven't been doing much gardening or blogging. Mostly I've been reading and watching TV.<br />
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<b>What I've Been Reading</b><br />
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I read a lot and I have pretty eclectic taste in books, everything from science fiction to mysteries to historical fiction to memoirs to popular fiction. No porn and no bodice rippers, although I don't look down my nose if that's your thing -- to each their own. Anyway, here's some of what I've been reading lately. Who knows? Maybe there's something in my list of what I read in the last few months that might interest you.<br />
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<b>A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie </b>This book was the latest (No. 18) in a series of English mysteries about Detective Inspector Gemma James and her Detective Superintendent husband Duncan Kincaid, and their combined brood of children and animals. I do read a lot of mysteries, and my list always leans rather heavily on stories set in Britain. I read a lot of series, set in either England or Scotland, as well as Ireland. I like Deborah Crombie's series, although she's an American, she never gets the details wrong.<br />
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<b>Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout</b> When I first encountered the marvelously opinionated, delightfully prickly, slightly obese character of Olive Kittredge, it was as played by the talented actress Frances McDormand in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3012698/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1">Olive Kittredge</a>, a two-part HBO miniseries. It was only after watching it that I discovered that the miniseries was based on the novel <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Olive-Kitteridge-Fiction-Elizabeth-Strout-ebook/dp/B0013TRR80/ref=sr_1_1?crid=I92L6CJ5VAPF&keywords=olive+kitteridge+by+elizabeth+strout&qid=1572149869&sprefix=Olive%2Caps%2C251&sr=8-1">Olive Kittredge</a> by Elizabeth Strout, and despite the fact that the descriptions of her in the novel didn't bear much resemblance to Ms. McDormand, I'll forever hear her voice and picture her when I read about Olive. This year Strout released<b> Olive, Again</b>, a sequel that was just as wonderful as the first book. Like the first, it is actually more of a series of short stories in which Olive sometimes figures only slightly as a supporting character, and sometimes as the main character.<br />
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<b>Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller</b> I like historical fiction, and I discovered this novel through <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/while-youre-waiting-for-the-next-hilary-mantel-try-andrew-miller.html">a review in the New York Times</a> that compared Andrew Miller to Hilary Mantel, a perhaps more well known historical fiction writer (she wrote the book Wolf Hall about Henry VIII, upon which the miniseries is based). I found Miller's book engaging and the characters interesting, including a pair of proto-feminist sisters from the 1800s who nonetheless do not seem out of place. It's about an upperclass English army officer who returns from war broken and suffering, and decides to decamp from his family estate to Scotland, unknowingly chased by an assassin. The thriller aspect is rather lowkey, and the book has an open-ended ending, where you must decide for yourself whether the hero survives.<br />
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<b>A Keeper: A Novel by Graham Norton</b> -- Yes, Graham Norton, the British talk show host. And it's a really good book too. I enjoyed his first book as well, which was a cozy murder mystery called <b>Holding</b>, set in a small Irish village. At times, I could hear Graham's voice in the narration. This second book is also a mystery, sort of. Not really a whodunit, more of a how did this happen and why. If you like mysteries with a bit of humor and quirky characters, you'll probably like both of his books, although the second is somewhat more serious in tone than the first.<br />
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A pair of autobiographies/memoirs -- <b>Between The Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig</b> and <b>How to Be Champion by Sarah Millican</b> I adore both of these British female comedic television personalities. Sandi has been a fixture of British TV for decades, and Sarah has been on the British standup comedy scene for about 10 years now, and has had a TV show of her own (look for it on YouTube). Sandi recently took over hosting <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877368/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0">The Great British Baking Show</a> (called Bakeoff in Britain). These books are very different from each other, but I highly recommend them both. You'll laugh, you might cry (a bit, especially at a few of Sandi's tales). Also, I read these two books in hard cover, rather than on my Kindle, because at the time they weren't available yet in the U.S. (I think they are now). I bought them from Amazon.co.uk. <br />
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<b>The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan</b> Susannah Cahalan is a journalist whose career was derailed for a time in the early 2000s by a disease called autoimmune encephalitis, which masquerades as a psychiatric disorder. She was in danger of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and being shut away in a psychiatric ward for most of her life (which might have been short), but for her family's insistence that doctors explore every possibility. She wrote a book about her experience, <b>Brain on Fire</b>, which I read a few years ago, and it was absolutely fascinating. Her current book starts out talking about other disorders that similarly can be mistaken for psychiatric conditions (such as syphilis), but eventually segues into researching one of the most interesting research projects in psychiatry, about which she makes some important discoveries. You can read an excellent review of this book <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776036170/the-great-pretender-seeks-the-truth-about-on-being-sane-in-insane-places">here</a>.<br />
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<b>The Turn of Midnight By Minette Walters</b> This work of historical fiction by one of my favorite British mystery writers is a sequel to <b>The Last Hours</b>, set during the Black Death in England, about a noblewoman who realizes that she needs to isolate her entire village to keep her serfs (who she cares deeply about) and family safe, and then recognizes how the desolation and deaths will affect society in the future, and makes a move to free the serfs under her care. When I first discovered Walters' mystery books I considered her the best successor to Ruth Rendell, but she took a long break from writing mysteries and then reappeared on the scene writing historical fiction.<br />
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<b>Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow</b> Dang, that title is a pretentious mouthful. This book is about the creation of Disneyland in California and the invention of the theme park. I'm a Disney fan, the author is a Disney fan, although he does gather together a few Disney-bashing opinions in one chapter towards the end of the book. There's a good amount of print given to the landscaping that went into the park, and I was interested to discover that an esteemed garden designer, <a href="https://tclf.org/pioneer/ruth-shellhorn">Ruth Shellhorn</a>, contributed to the design of the gardens and pathways. There's also quite a lot in the book about the Evans brothers, who worked on the landscape design at Disneyland. You can read a little background <a href="https://tclf.org/brothers-behind-disney-magical-landscapes">here </a>about the Evans brothers.<br />
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<b>The Collapsing Empire </b>and <b>The Consuming Fire</b> (Book One and Book Two of a three-part series called The Interdependency) <b>by John Scalzi</b> Science fiction and urban fantasy make up the bulk of what Nigel reads, with a smattering of horror and auto/biography. He first introduced me to John Scalzi through Scalzi's blog, which is called <a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/">Whatever</a> (the subtitle used to be "This Website Mocks Fascists," but he recently changed it, now it simply says "Time to Register To Vote"). He's been blogging there for 21 years, about a wide variety of subjects -- sometimes long, thoughtful essays, sometimes just a picture of his cats. So what are The Interdependency books about? The story is set very very far in the future, when humans have moved far out into the galaxy. In order to move between stars, ships use a feature of physics called "The Flow," which at the start of the first book is beginning to collapse and mutate. Except no one really believes the scientists who are warning about the coming collapse, and politicians and businesspeople are jockeying to try to seize power and make money before the end comes. The final book in the trilogy is set to come out this spring.<br />
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The newest season of the science fiction show <b>The Expanse</b> recently
dropped on Amazon, and I binge-watched that. Have you seen it? This show
is based on a series of books by James S.A. Corey (actually a pseudonym
used by a duo of writers), of which I read the first three, a few years ago, when the show first premiered on Sy-Fy.<br />
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A week or so ago I downloaded a couple of Expanse novellas into my Kindle -- <b>The Churn</b> and <b>Strange Dogs. </b>I enjoyed <b>The Churn</b> better, it's a story about the life of one of the TV show's main characters, Amos Burton, when he was still a teenager barely surviving in Baltimore.<br />
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I also recently celebrated a birthday, and for my birthday Nigel got me a book about the TV show, <b>The Art and Making of The Expanse</b>, which I devoured in one night. It's one of those books that's full of rich photographs and behind the scenes info. One of the things I really love about the show is the number of richly drawn, tough, courageous, kick-ass women.<br />
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Here are some takeaways from the book with some info about some of the show's female characters.<br />
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Also, here's a link to a video on YouTube with some of Crisjen Avasarala's best moments (played by the phenomenal Iranian-born actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohreh_Aghdashloo">Shohreh Aghdashloo</a>).<br />
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And speaking of TV....<br />
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<b>What I've Been Watching on TV</b><br />
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My husband Nigel (who is English) and I have a Britbox subscription, which we use for more than just watching <b>Gardener's World</b>. We also watch a lot of British shows on YouTube. There are a handful of game shows and panel shows that show up there on a regular basis. I mentioned a game show -- <b>Only Connect</b> -- in a previous post <a href="https://bonneylassie.blogspot.com/2018/12/instead-of-gardening.html">here</a>.<br />
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We've been watching a game show called <b>Pointless</b>, which has been running on British TV for several years. Unlike <b>Only Connect</b>, where people compete just for bragging rights, these contestants can actually win money -- although not a lot. The goal is to make the least points possible, and the questions are easier than in <b>Only Connect</b>.<br />
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The show has a pair of hosts, Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman,
who work well together. Nigel and I get a kick out of listening to them
riff off each other, and occasionally rack up a few zingers. They've
known each other since university. Alexander is the affable host who
asks the questions and schmoozes the guests, and Richard pretends to be
knowledgeable and professorial, although he often makes stuff up just to
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Reportedly Her Majesty The Queen is a big fan of the show. Sometimes Richard looks straight at the camera and addresses her. "Your Majesty, if you're watching..."<br />
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You can read more about Alexander Armstrong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Armstrong">here. </a><br />
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You can read more about Richard Osman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Osman">here.</a> Interestingly, he was a producer and one of the creators of the show Deal or No Deal, and used to sit in the room with the Banker during filming. Did you know Deal or No Deal started out on British TV? It was decidedly less glamorous in its original incarnation.<br />
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Another show that Nigel and I have been watching on YouTube is <b>Richard Osman's House of Games</b>, which is a game show for celebrities that kind of defies description, but I'll try. Each week for five days a panel of four celebrities compete to win a cheap plastic trophy by playing a series of very silly games where they sometimes have to answer backwards, or answer two questions whose answers rhyme with each other, or are anagrams of each other, etc., etc., etc. Richard hosts this show on his own, and asks all the questions.<br />
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There is also a version of <b>Pointless</b> in which celebrities are the contestants, and they compete to win a small amount of money for charity. Amusingly, it's called <b>Pointless Celebrities</b>. Here's a recent episode where Welsh actor Michael Sheen competed.<br />
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Through our Britbox subscription I also recently binge-watched an anthology show from England called <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2674806/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0"><b>Inside No. 9</b></a>, in which each story takes place inside an address that is number 9, or in the case of one episode, on the 9th floor of a hotel. Some are thrillers, some are comedies, but every one features surprising plot twists and they all have that very keen English sense of humor. They are also very cleverly written, as in the case of the episode on the hotel's 9th floor, which was written in iambic pentameter, and had a rather Shakespearean-style plot, featuring unwitting twins separated at birth, mistaken identity, etc. I've never seen Black Mirror, but I've heard it favorably compared to that. Every episode features the character actors <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671487/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Steve Pemberton</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790501/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">Reece Shearsmith</a>, who also wrote them all.<br />
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There is a particular type of British show that Nigel and I love that just doesn't seem to translate well when people try to adapt it for American audiences -- it's called a panel show. Think of it as a game show crossed with the loosey-goosiness of standup comedy. Actually, one recent show that did come from England that worked in the U.S. was Whose Line Is It Anyway? I never watched it, either the American or British version. But we do watch quite a few other British panel shows. <br />
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I could go on and on and on, recommending a lot of British TV shows, but I'm afraid you're going to find it tedious.<br />
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Oh what the hell, here's more, all panel shows. <br />
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Mock The Week (On Britbox)<br />
Have I Got News For You (On YouTube)<br />
Would I Lie to You? (On YouTube and Britbox)<br />
As Yet Untitled (on Britbox)<br />
QI (on Britbox)<br />
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Goodness, hope that didn't bore you to tears. Maybe finding out what holds my interest when I'm not gardening gave you a little insight into what a very strange creature I am (or maybe you already had an inkling about that...)<br />
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Anyway, Happy New Year and Welcome to the 2020s!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-30532181468494516712019-12-30T04:00:00.000-08:002019-12-30T04:00:10.276-08:00All The Other Things Part IMany of the publications that I read have been using the last couple of weeks to run long articles with "Best of 2019" lists -- of all kinds of description. Best movies, best TV shows, best books, best things that happened, best <u>Fill In The Blank</u>.<br />
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I didn't realize until I started looking over my year's worth of posts that I never even posted about some of the best gardens I visited this summer as part of the NPA's Open Gardens Program. Sometimes I even went to two different towns on the same weekend, one on Saturday, and another one in an entirely different area on Sunday. The book this year was chock-full of luscious riches. I posted photos on Instagram, usually ten posts to a garden, but I didn't include much text or background with those. So, here's a little quick and dirty rundown with a handful of pictures from some great gardens that I saw this past summer.<br />
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<b>On Vashon Island</b><br />
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<b>The Garden of Jonathan Morse</b><br />
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<b>The Garden of Julia and Ernie Graham</b><br />
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<b>The Garden of Camille Paulsen</b><br />
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<b>The Garden of Blossom Kroman</b><br />
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<b>The Garden of Mark Henry</b><br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-87950141200172327442019-12-16T04:00:00.000-08:002019-12-16T04:00:11.443-08:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -- December 2019, A Day LateThe fifteenth of December came quickly. To be honest, there isn't much in my garden flowering right now, and not much more in the greenhouse, where the tender plants are wintering over. I wasn't sure I should even bother to post, but here I am anyway, taking a break from gorging myself on Christmas cookies to check out what's happening in my garden.<br />
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In the greenhouse: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahonia x media 'Charity' providing a hummingbird feast at this time of year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A second Mahonia 'Charity' flowering heavily but leaning precariously ever since raccoons used it as a jungle gym</td></tr>
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That's it for my flowers. Carol at May Dreams gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. You can check out her post <a href="https://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2019/12/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-december-2019.html">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-25768874154721176692019-11-28T04:00:00.000-08:002019-11-28T04:00:00.706-08:00Thankful for My Sense of HumorI have a history of falling into deep sadness at this time of year, every year. I don't know exactly why -- the falling light levels, a sense of mourning at the end of the gardening season, or maybe just my own dislike of the holidays in general. Maybe it's a combination of all three. The end of the year, from about September onward, makes me sad.<br />
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And lately, I spend even more time careening between deep sadness and all-consuming, white-hot fury, every time I read the news.<br />
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In my recent post <a href="https://bonneylassie.blogspot.com/2019/11/ode-to-nightingale.html">Ode to a Nightingale</a> I lamented the end of the gardening season, and one of the commenters, Hoover Boo, who blogs at <a href="https://pieceofeden.blogspot.com/">Piece of Eden</a>, commented with a link to a YouTube video of comedian Lewis Black ranting. It made me laugh, and lifted my spirits for a while, and ultimately sent me on a quest through YouTube for videos of favorite comedians.<br />
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Some of you may know that my husband Nigel is English, and I am an Anglophile, which means we spend a lot of time watching English comedy and TV shows on YouTube and Britbox. Here are a couple of my favorites, who are probably not exactly household names in the U.S., so you might not be familiar with them.<br />
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<a href="https://sarahmillican.co.uk/"><b>Sarah Millican</b></a> <br />
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Sarah Millican Live at the Apollo</div>
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Sarah Millican on Her Pet Dog</div>
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<a href="https://www.tomindeed.com/about/"><b>Tom Allen</b></a><br />
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Tom Allen on Being at the Water Park</div>
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Tom Allen Live at the Apollo</div>
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So, if you've had a horrifying Thanksgiving with family, or a stressful time cooking (or eating too much), or just feel the need to also be thankful for your own sense of humor, I hope those clips made you laugh too.<br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-2114590180564442142019-11-11T11:27:00.000-08:002019-11-11T11:27:51.594-08:00Ode to a Nightingale<div style="text-align: center;">
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Ode to a Nightingale</div>
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Ode to a Nightingale<br />
By John Keats<br />
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains </div>
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My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, </div>
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Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains </div>
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One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: </div>
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'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, </div>
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But being too happy in thine happiness,— </div>
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That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees </div>
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In some melodious plot </div>
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Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, </div>
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Singest of summer in full-throated ease. </div>
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been </div>
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Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, </div>
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Tasting of Flora and the country green, </div>
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Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! </div>
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O for a beaker full of the warm South, </div>
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Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, </div>
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With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, </div>
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And purple-stained mouth; </div>
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That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, </div>
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:<br />
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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget </div>
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What thou among the leaves hast never known, </div>
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The weariness, the fever, and the fret </div>
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Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; </div>
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Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, </div>
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Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; </div>
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Where but to think is to be full of sorrow </div>
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And leaden-eyed despairs, </div>
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Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, </div>
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. <br />
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Away! away! for I will fly to thee, </div>
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Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, </div>
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But on the viewless wings of Poesy, </div>
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Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: </div>
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Already with thee! tender is the night, </div>
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And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, </div>
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Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; </div>
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But here there is no light, </div>
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Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown </div>
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Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. </div>
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, </div>
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Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, </div>
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But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet </div>
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Wherewith the seasonable month endows </div>
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The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; </div>
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White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; </div>
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Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; </div>
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And mid-May's eldest child, </div>
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The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, </div>
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The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. </div>
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time </div>
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I have been half in love with easeful Death, </div>
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Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, </div>
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To take into the air my quiet breath; </div>
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Now more than ever seems it rich to die, </div>
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To cease upon the midnight with no pain, </div>
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While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad </div>
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In such an ecstasy! </div>
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Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— </div>
To thy high requiem become a sod. <br />
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No hungry generations tread thee down; </div>
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The voice I hear this passing night was heard </div>
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Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, </div>
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She stood in tears amid the alien corn; </div>
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The same that oft-times hath </div>
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Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam </div>
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Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. </div>
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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell </div>
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To toll me back from thee to my sole self! </div>
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Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well </div>
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As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. </div>
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Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades </div>
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Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep? <br />
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It may have been a few years since you took a poetry class. Just in case you need a few clues to what John Keats was wittering on about,<a href="https://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/keats/section3/"> here's a link</a>.<br />
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Although I welcome the rains that return to the garden here in the fall, the season always fills me with melancholy, so I thought I'd pass the melancholia on to you. Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-11256901913881204132019-10-31T04:00:00.000-07:002019-10-31T04:00:02.013-07:00Eek-a-Boo<br />
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Happy Halloween! Here are some spooky things in my garden.<br />
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This spider web has been abandoned for quite a while now. We've had quite a long string of cold, frosty nights lately, and I'm pretty sure all the cross spiders have long since laid their eggs and gone into hibernation.<br />
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I like putting masks and glasses on some of my pots in the greenhouse. I found these cheap cat-eye sunglasses at the thrift store a few weeks ago. I'm not convinced they're really right for Buddha.<br />
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The creepiest thing in my garden is this real possum skeleton, which has
been sitting beside my shed near the compost bins for a few months now. I know it's a possum because when I first found it, probably a day or so after it had died, it still had flesh (and bugs) on its bones and reeked of decay. I haven't dared to go near it to clean it up, because possums can carry some of the same diseases, such as leptospirosus, that raccoons carry, even in their carcasses. It scares the bejesus out of me. The smell of rotten meat hung around in my nostrils for hours after I found it. <br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-10670701567189568022019-10-25T12:43:00.004-07:002019-10-25T12:43:45.426-07:00A Recent Visit to Watson's NurseryNigel just got back from a train trip to California, a little vacation on his own. He had a rebate voucher from Amtrak that paid for a trip there and back on the Coast Starlight, so in between he spent a couple of nights (and one day) at Disneyland. While he was away, <a href="https://www.watsonsgreenhouse.com/our-products-1">Watson's Nursery</a> posted on Instagram that they were having a 40% off sale on houseplants, so I decided to take myself over there to check things out.<br />
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They had some interesting ferns.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Technically not a fern, Cycas revoluta (Sago palm) looks a lot like a fern</td></tr>
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I also considered the prayer plants.<br />
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And this remarkably colorful Cordyline.<br />
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A couple of months ago, I was visiting Watson's when they had just started putting a green wall together. If you scroll down through their Instagram feed <a href="https://www.instagram.com/watsonsgreenhouse/">here</a>, you'll find a couple of videos about the process of putting it together. It turned out fabulous.<br />
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The Bromelaids in the wall reminded me to check out their Bromeliad area, where I found some wonderfully lush specimens.<br />
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I found a small but interesting selection of Dyckias from Little Prince of Oregon on their succulent table.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Grape Jelly'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mangaves! 'Inkblot'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rows of fluffy Echevaria</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I liked the look of that chocolatey, wavy Echeveria, but there weren't many to choose from</td></tr>
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Little knobbly, stripey Gasteria<br />
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I wasn't sure if these were included in the sale or not, but they gave me ideas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cool, but not $90 worth of cool, especially since I could get the plant for considerably less</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, perusing the sale also meant having to endure this...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm old school, seeing Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving doesn't just make me shudder, I find it annoying</td></tr>
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What did I bring home? One of those little chocolate Echevaria, a Crown of Thorns, a staghorn fern, two Aloe aristata, and a few Dyckia, two 'Grand Marnier' and one 'Burgundy Ice'.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-17765054756928776002019-10-23T04:00:00.000-07:002019-10-23T04:00:08.193-07:00Wednesday VignetteLast month I had the privilege of touring behind the scenes at <a href="https://www.farreachesfarm.com/">Far Reaches Farm</a> in Port Townsend, WA. I haven't posted any of my photos from my visit, it's only been a few weeks and yet I have already forgotten most of what I heard there. Of course I took plenty of pictures, but took no notes and everything Kelly and Sue said has pretty much flown the coop of my increasingly old brain, which retains little nowadays. The main point of the trip was to get a glimpse of the work they are doing with their <a href="https://farreachesbotanicalconservancy.org/">Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy</a>, whose purpose is to acquire and introduce plants that are being threatened by development. Right now, in fact, I believe they are away in Asia on a plant hunting expedition.<br />
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I really should get my photos together of that behind the scenes visit, but for today I'll just share a couple of shots of lush Podophyllums that were growing on in pots in one of their Off-Limits-to-most-customers greenhouses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here's a shot of Kelly Dodson telling the tale of the plant that got away -- just like a fisherman, it was "this big."</td></tr>
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Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette. You can check out her post today right <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-45987395018016060972019-10-22T11:49:00.001-07:002019-10-22T11:49:38.088-07:00Fall ColorThere are some very striking fall colors out in the garden, as well as in the trees and shrubs that I see on my way to the grocery store every day right now. Is it just my imagination, or do they seem more vibrant than in recent years? I wonder if the rain in August, as well as in September, has caused the trees and shrubs to hang onto their leaves longer, whereas in a more normal year, with summer drought that lingers well into September, the trees have usually lost most of their brown, crinkly, dried-up leaves early as they shut down in August from months of summer drought.<br />
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Of course I'm not a botanist, or meteorologist, or climatologist, basically I know next to nothing about anything. These are just the musings of a home gardener with some photos to share.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amelanchier alnifolia</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjka26pqjXYlnF7YzBuNgbZIVg91msEHFED95zd49JYvR8jBsxGRgJV9p8iG243DHQFOGTEWsxz51QVC8GdvFZI54v8X1O_HCGX5WoPvD_JtCgV8BZRYWJi-GGLyBCbAnsbpHLvyzsH410/s1600/IMG_1963.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjka26pqjXYlnF7YzBuNgbZIVg91msEHFED95zd49JYvR8jBsxGRgJV9p8iG243DHQFOGTEWsxz51QVC8GdvFZI54v8X1O_HCGX5WoPvD_JtCgV8BZRYWJi-GGLyBCbAnsbpHLvyzsH410/s640/IMG_1963.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oemleria cerasiformis</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuVPGt1flShG5HdB4-6lXJEtpfNVaQpIVeQ5iaQnj2csoyQiDr9fCRxiN2ZskwDT3VrRJbYu1TkBNrAQfKuaZ7Y_j9FlkOmyz8BLjLLpqjb-KwIw0lYfl_AZXpOXaifSOAbZG7KUqBfY/s1600/IMG_1965.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuVPGt1flShG5HdB4-6lXJEtpfNVaQpIVeQ5iaQnj2csoyQiDr9fCRxiN2ZskwDT3VrRJbYu1TkBNrAQfKuaZ7Y_j9FlkOmyz8BLjLLpqjb-KwIw0lYfl_AZXpOXaifSOAbZG7KUqBfY/s640/IMG_1965.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ribes sanguineum</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1MztfGS-NhnAD5Juq6PvdKxdJkq-9qP5Jx2prC0PTvvQ__usaM2_eB9bRqzTSEupNQi4qUZEO_m6WeRK_Ucx2eVREhYcDULJhJppRhmgBmkra_lz5WeLvWwyiw3pFJ5_wc6dDxhVmCs/s1600/IMG_1973.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1MztfGS-NhnAD5Juq6PvdKxdJkq-9qP5Jx2prC0PTvvQ__usaM2_eB9bRqzTSEupNQi4qUZEO_m6WeRK_Ucx2eVREhYcDULJhJppRhmgBmkra_lz5WeLvWwyiw3pFJ5_wc6dDxhVmCs/s640/IMG_1973.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peony</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peony closeup</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdmPdI71ZtGTDhsBqrC1HQnRIn_Ki5uP3saqQ069e8m1yEJtzl9fAsoC-GmTuxz1OKtkWgzIYr8LSd2s5hcwllyJBawEWugGlDf7c7xZm6trYCpayvtT-WtBAJpD-ZC6Shg4DW8rk_iI/s1600/IMG_1976.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdmPdI71ZtGTDhsBqrC1HQnRIn_Ki5uP3saqQ069e8m1yEJtzl9fAsoC-GmTuxz1OKtkWgzIYr8LSd2s5hcwllyJBawEWugGlDf7c7xZm6trYCpayvtT-WtBAJpD-ZC6Shg4DW8rk_iI/s640/IMG_1976.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hydrangea quercifolia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hydrangea quercifolia</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV5k3GvyLjum57lcQdCSND1tdRW_9SAO0AkL16Y52TiTc6ObcNdc08Yq3PsdwcIU2JqmInH6Nj8eaejDbqZCcihAEIoNQh-eTcRouFsRJMO2eJxRAZxSp5pHse83cmidBHmobidRQnyA/s1600/IMG_1969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV5k3GvyLjum57lcQdCSND1tdRW_9SAO0AkL16Y52TiTc6ObcNdc08Yq3PsdwcIU2JqmInH6Nj8eaejDbqZCcihAEIoNQh-eTcRouFsRJMO2eJxRAZxSp5pHse83cmidBHmobidRQnyA/s640/IMG_1969.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acer circinatum</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_DS0wTy-kknVaUOvwrNtinBisYsV93QjLKB67r2YBcKkRLH0eqNQiMR8JMe6B6kQejD0hZiPOLwqSw4zU7IhWJFrgH9y2qondlzdQW0ZfOJE8V0AT7iF7OwrIxusdwFREKH7jT4uRew/s1600/IMG_1978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="1600" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_DS0wTy-kknVaUOvwrNtinBisYsV93QjLKB67r2YBcKkRLH0eqNQiMR8JMe6B6kQejD0hZiPOLwqSw4zU7IhWJFrgH9y2qondlzdQW0ZfOJE8V0AT7iF7OwrIxusdwFREKH7jT4uRew/s640/IMG_1978.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oak tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sYijtE1LvNwh1CuIez4ro3Hm_NkFYrG0_bR61hXPHNIUSYYmwNUlWc7XD9cQzPOgw4RBI9gsY3kt4aYbLteLFDaYWr8N6LxPfG3WOcTy68l2pY8tTIVfVhW2piRjOUmAh1yDtAx010M/s1600/IMG_1984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sYijtE1LvNwh1CuIez4ro3Hm_NkFYrG0_bR61hXPHNIUSYYmwNUlWc7XD9cQzPOgw4RBI9gsY3kt4aYbLteLFDaYWr8N6LxPfG3WOcTy68l2pY8tTIVfVhW2piRjOUmAh1yDtAx010M/s640/IMG_1984.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quercus</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02cVqLbZzSpfqZ47sk8QprCoC3qeiLL4Q7Ydx70ZPWoLYINx1MdaATqp_eRnVVe6jdyz8DMPWlDe3invAgq3zu2lR7hWQ2pjZqzwA9zGmXKjzb_PPerYygXZ3SfrdJB2DGP3IC95Y5nk/s1600/IMG_1985.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02cVqLbZzSpfqZ47sk8QprCoC3qeiLL4Q7Ydx70ZPWoLYINx1MdaATqp_eRnVVe6jdyz8DMPWlDe3invAgq3zu2lR7hWQ2pjZqzwA9zGmXKjzb_PPerYygXZ3SfrdJB2DGP3IC95Y5nk/s640/IMG_1985.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amsonia hubrichtii</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFtph2XyeKL4cz9JIaTgRPor9mAM4OGsEOY44lKqZOODUKeK_yVOPdx4psg7oVu9b0Ubif7MilKkMU1Mbqnpg14dQIyghkhZymkhUtCBqUisda0-6blLIJLr7LBf25Vc8bMdWEjT5GXQ/s1600/IMG_1986.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFtph2XyeKL4cz9JIaTgRPor9mAM4OGsEOY44lKqZOODUKeK_yVOPdx4psg7oVu9b0Ubif7MilKkMU1Mbqnpg14dQIyghkhZymkhUtCBqUisda0-6blLIJLr7LBf25Vc8bMdWEjT5GXQ/s640/IMG_1986.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geranium macrorrhizum</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfOwnOTLmE4Kx6LmrS8DrXYuIno6YPN_lT7c4c07BwCjoP6J1d8NqwUuRL2n__yhcXOgdy5-1mNGV7SQQ5gJdSMwYTU8yEROW8IdGkiyOX_H2hwdbpG3fRO0ghn_p2OSkGRKV_Vrk8nM/s1600/IMG_1987.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfOwnOTLmE4Kx6LmrS8DrXYuIno6YPN_lT7c4c07BwCjoP6J1d8NqwUuRL2n__yhcXOgdy5-1mNGV7SQQ5gJdSMwYTU8yEROW8IdGkiyOX_H2hwdbpG3fRO0ghn_p2OSkGRKV_Vrk8nM/s640/IMG_1987.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eucalyptus bark</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9h42-6aRWo6frPAak6wbpYXhVcUq_fOITXu2rxnuRL8g_GDnZMgcdsZELrn8MqcA2PEZymBWfPMnmCQ6PxCE3jRCYGuH631yCBh5SqsgVqSF8VQKeHvqowgrSR9cF_ItRKpIxOrTuco/s1600/IMG_1989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9h42-6aRWo6frPAak6wbpYXhVcUq_fOITXu2rxnuRL8g_GDnZMgcdsZELrn8MqcA2PEZymBWfPMnmCQ6PxCE3jRCYGuH631yCBh5SqsgVqSF8VQKeHvqowgrSR9cF_ItRKpIxOrTuco/s640/IMG_1989.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eucalyptus</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2AspDlUBzFm7b-hL53xsYLC6q3YURY6AyLOVoPhETW0aMIcXlP6A7EKyWT_oI7Y05r_L5dzkP_ujX99OfTPvDWnBm3HYksr5FxXWHaLQEA8iuL3XWsXmjANOaXbDY2wE3AqkKfFAcOo/s1600/IMG_1992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2AspDlUBzFm7b-hL53xsYLC6q3YURY6AyLOVoPhETW0aMIcXlP6A7EKyWT_oI7Y05r_L5dzkP_ujX99OfTPvDWnBm3HYksr5FxXWHaLQEA8iuL3XWsXmjANOaXbDY2wE3AqkKfFAcOo/s640/IMG_1992.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Steroidal Giant'</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uwzQ5lt-YSHFmDcLTxaePCw_NInUdQajRAccexb9Xi3fSyVAKpjx8FxQ05fUGd5Za0HhFpTV7L61fVTbxOtXNd7OjVOGiTU_Qqfl4Otpdv_RQ3vg9zssu4Ay3dU7xbYTi_8OcddkmKA/s1600/IMG_1994.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uwzQ5lt-YSHFmDcLTxaePCw_NInUdQajRAccexb9Xi3fSyVAKpjx8FxQ05fUGd5Za0HhFpTV7L61fVTbxOtXNd7OjVOGiTU_Qqfl4Otpdv_RQ3vg9zssu4Ay3dU7xbYTi_8OcddkmKA/s640/IMG_1994.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viburnum trilobum</td></tr>
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Have you noticed how vibrant the fall foliage is this year? Am I just not remembering that every year it's this beautiful?Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-26301871939458268052019-10-15T04:00:00.000-07:002019-10-15T04:00:14.284-07:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -- October 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for October, and since I missed September, and have posted very little for the month, I figured I better put a post together. With my son's wedding in September and the travel that came along with it, I seem to have spent most of the last month in some kind of altered state, rarely thinking about the blog much.<br />
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The flowers I have to show this month are actually pretty much the same ones that were flowering last month, so no harm done with missing a month's post. Even though we had a frost last week, many flowers haven't missed a beat and are still flowering today.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A second wave of flowers on Centranthus ruber -- I allowed the previous to go to seed, and I can already see that was a mistake -- babies everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Astrantia major 'Vanilla Gorilla'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geranium 'Rozanne'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and Leucanthemum 'Crazy Daisy'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My neighbor's side of the new prairie bed is a riot of flowers, many grown from seed this past winter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heliopsis helianthoides 'Burning Hearts'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Veronica teucrium 'Royal Blue'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coreopsis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poppy mallow/Callirhoe involucrata</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a flower, actually, but a berry drupe, on Leycesteria formosa/Himalayan honeysuckle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floppy spent flowers on Eucomis, looking very octopus-like</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tall Aster whose name I've lost</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eryngium 'Blue Glitter'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abelia 'Kaleidoscope'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyclamen that has popped up from seed in an out-of-the-way spot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arbutus unedo 'Compacta' is smothered in flowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Normally there are quite a few of last year's berries still hanging with this year's flowers, but I had to hunt hard for these two</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Corydalis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the Dahlias have collapsed, but a few are still standing upright</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to give up the ghost</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyclamen hederifolium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last few flowers of Geranium 'Wargrave's Pink' which has a first spring flush and then flowers sporadically all summer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the oakleaf Hydrangea flowers have faded to brown, but it has produced two bright white new ones</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hydrangea arborescens</td></tr>
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There are more flowers inside the greenhouse, where all the summer players from the front porch display have been put away.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pelargonium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Begonia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Euphorbia millii</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pelargonium sidoides, which never flowers here until I put it away for the winter</td></tr>
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-58059486941958663892019-10-11T11:03:00.000-07:002019-10-11T11:03:10.548-07:00First Frost 2019We had our first frost this week. On Tuesday night the temperatures went down below freezing long enough to crystallize the dew on the leaves, and on Wednesday morning, as soon as I got back from dropping Nigel off at the train station, before I even went back in the house to make my first cup of coffee and eat my breakfast (plain yogurt sprinkled with nuts), I got out my phone and walked around the front garden taking a few pictures.<br />
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We've had first frosts this early in the past, and we've had first frosts in the past that waited till late December, or even January, I think. I remember last year not needing to move my tender plants back into the greenhouse until nearly Halloween. They have already been back inside the greenhouse all snug and warm for a couple of weeks now, since the end of September, when the weather people threatened a first frost, but it didn't actually materialize.<br />
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Frost is very pretty, but it does turn your fingers numb.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-52020296666836431722019-09-18T11:23:00.001-07:002019-09-18T11:23:29.122-07:00Instead of Garden Bloggers Bloom DayI missed Garden Bloggers Bloom Day because for most of the week leading up to it I was on the East Coast, in Providence, R.I., for my son Iain's wedding. So instead of trying to play catch-up and post for GBBD, I'm just going to share my happy, albeit hectic, week. There's not much flowering in my garden right now anyway, other than very wet and wind-blown Echinacea purpurea and Sedum Autumn Joy. I came home at the end of Happy Wedding Week to gale-force winds and rain, strange weather more suited to later in the season.<br />
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I found some flowers in Providence, I'll show you those. But I'll also start with plants.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my airplane carry-on -- a tote bag full of potted starts for my son and new DIL's garden</td></tr>
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We arrived on Tuesday afternoon and met with Iain and Diana for dinner,
and then on Wednesday afternoon they took us to Newport, R.I. to wander
around the shops on the waterfront. We were still having a hard time
getting acclimated to the new time zone, and in fact, never really did,
we were still falling asleep around 2 a.m. the night before we came
home. I also didn't take a lot of photos of the wedding, I just wanted to
enjoy being with the two of them, plus Nigel and I had to meet all of
Diana's family, which, as you can imagine, was pretty stressful for two
old introverts who rarely talk about anything other than gardens (me) and computers (Nigel). Therefore, there are photos in this post that will be attributed to others.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At our afternoon meal (I wasn't sure whether it was lunch or dinner, since my time sense was all off), my son Iain made us all laugh with his version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWs1O4-BG5U">Mr. Napkin Head</a> from the movie The Holiday</td></tr>
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On Thursday morning, rather than continuing to eat at the somewhat disappointing hotel restaurant, Nigel and I ventured down the street for breakfast at a little cafe called <a href="https://elliesprov.com/">Ellie's</a>, for lattes and breakfast sandwiches.<br />
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On Thursday was the actual "paperwork" wedding of Iain and Diana, at the North Providence Town Hall, officiated by a justice of the peace. The celebratory wedding, which was scheduled for Saturday, was going to be officiated by a friend of Diana's, who was not actually licensed in Rhode Island. So to get the paperwork correctly filed, they decided to have essentially two weddings. The one on Thursday in front of the J.P. was attended only by Nigel and I, Diana's parents, and Diana's sister Julia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see from the expression on Diana's face, she's a weeper, but she's also very much a keeper</td></tr>
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On Friday evening, after the wedding rehearsal for the bigger celebration set to take place on Saturday, Nigel and I hosted a get-to-know-you party for all the people who had arrived from out of town for the big formal reception (Diana's family are all from Long Island).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nigel and Brad, one of Iain's "groomsfolk," a good friend from Iain's high school days, at the Friday rehearsal party (photo by 2 1/2-year old Arzu, one of the flower girls)</td></tr>
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On Saturday morning Nigel and I went for a walk around Providence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like this mural of a young girl opening a magical door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this one, of a young man tossing a ring in the air, seemed appropriate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This art deco building in downtown Providence is called <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190529/providences-superman-building-listed-as-one-of-nations-most-endangered-places">the Superman building</a> because of its resemblance to the Daily Planet building in the original Superman comic books</td></tr>
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We walked along the river that runs through the city, where preparations were underway for a city-wide celebration called <a href="https://waterfire.org/">WaterFire</a>, set to take place that evening.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those braziers full of wood would be set ablaze, but we wouldn't be there to see them as we would be at the wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Providence mural</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barges full of wood and a gondola</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Along the riverfront, art with the city as a backdrop</td></tr>
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Of course I managed to find a little pocket garden near the river.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were large swaths of Rudbeckia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As well as lots of tall sunflowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This building captured my imagination</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plant City was apparently a vegetarian market - we didn't bother to go closer for a better look</td></tr>
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Providence recently built and opened a new bow-shaped pedestrian walkway across the river, that makes use of old bridge pylons. Read about it <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190809/219-million-later-pedestrian-bridge-opens-in-downtown-providence">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Providence's new pedestrian bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the city from the bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On one side are tiered planters full of grasses that were blowing in the wind</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I spotted Miscanthus, Panicum, Calamagrostis, and I think the short, pinkish tufted grass is Eragrostis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the other end of the bridge was a large concrete walkway with island beds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm pretty sure they were intended as rain gardens, as they all dipped in the center, and although the plants on the edges were not especially moisture-loving, the ones in the depression in the center, such as Lobelia cardinalis, were</td></tr>
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In the evening we headed out in our rental car to the reception hall at the Meehan Overlook in North Providence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flower Girl RaeLynn and Bridesfolk, Diana's sister Abby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second Flower Girl Arzu, holding up a mask of Diana, created by one of Arzu's moms, one of the Groomsfolk and friend of Iain, Rosalie (who also took the photo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's adorable Arzu in her dress (photo by Rosalie)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arzu playing with bubbles (photo by Rosalie)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arzu's favorite greeting -- "I have a dress!" (photo by Rosalie)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nigel and Arzu, who took a liking to each other (photo by Rosalie) -- the bandaids are adornment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iain looking quite dapper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arzu calls him "Uncle Iain"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diana and her mini-me Arzu -- Diana's simple bouquet was made of flowers from her garden</td></tr>
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Arzu's second mom, Elnara, is from Azerbaijan. Arzu's name in Azerbaijani means "wish" or "dream."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sister and her husband holding up bride and groom masks</td></tr>
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After the wedding came Bridesfolk and Groomsfolk speeches. To Nigel's relief he wasn't called upon to speak. Iain's good friends who have all known him since high school shared funny and at times heart-warming stories of life with Iain. The last ten years have had their ups and downs and I'm so glad he has had such good friends for support back east.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brad's speech included a funny story about Halloween, always one of Iain's favorite holidays</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott told a story about being part of an underground newspaper in high school that was Iain's brainchild</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some reason I didn't get a photo of Rosalie's speechifying, but I did take a photo of her from Friday night's party</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diana (center) and her sisters/Bridesfolk, Abby (left) and Julia (right) (photo by Diana)</td></tr>
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There are (fortunately) no photos of me, I'm not much of a selfie-taker. But for the wedding I did make a fun little fascinator. I bought a witch hat from Michael's last year at Halloween, which I altered by adding some colorful feathers and a flower with a battery-powered fiber-optic center that lit up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brave soul Nigel models my fascinator</td></tr>
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After a brief visit to Iain and Diana's house on Sunday morning to say good-bye, we headed to Boston's Logan Airport Hilton for one last overnight stay before boarding our plane for home.<br />
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Of course, now I am still jet-lagged despite never acclimating to East Coast time. It was a stressful, exhilarating week full of meeting new people, eating at odd times, etc. Nigel was back at work the very next day and we still haven't caught up on our sleep. Maybe by the weekend we'll get that chance.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-78209110787568382822019-09-11T04:00:00.000-07:002019-09-11T04:00:08.488-07:00Wednesday VignetteFrom the garden of Barb Purdey. I love gardens that are full of wonderful little views like this, especially of faces peeking out from greenery.<br />
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Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette. Check out her post <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-20609804392065148952019-09-04T04:00:00.000-07:002019-09-04T04:00:08.202-07:00Wednesday VignetteMy WV photo today is from a summer visit to the garden of George Shriver and Omar Watson, an NPA Open Garden. I have no clue what this seedpod is from, but the toothed edges remind me of Cardiocrinum. I doubt that's it, though, since it was so short. I've been poring over many of my summer photos from all the fantastic gardens I visited this year, and thinking about the fact that Labor Day is past, summer is nearly over, full-blown autumn rains will be here soon, and many of my flowers such as Echinacea will be nothing but seedheads soon, left to provide the proverbial winter interest and to feed the birds.<br />
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<br />Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette, you can check out her post <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-63260000216023749202019-09-03T04:00:00.000-07:002019-09-03T04:00:07.600-07:00A July Visit to the Rhododendron Species Botanical GardenAt the end of July, I paid a visit to the <a href="https://rhodygarden.org/cms/">Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden </a>(RSBG) in Federal Way, during what I remember as a particularly hot series of days. Despite the fact that I have only one rhodie growing in my garden, and the fact that rhodies are not my favorite kind of shrub, the RSBG is one of my favorite public gardens in the Seattle/Tacoma area. It's a very woodsy garden, and on a hot day, it's a pleasantly shady place to spend some time. They have a wonderful collection of great companion plants for shade, as well as a fabulous, ferny Victorian-style stumpery and a cavernous conservatory full of tender plants. Most years I visit the RSBG in the spring during plant sale season. If you attend their spring plant sale you get in free, instead of having to pay $8.00. Plus, during the spring you get to see Cardiocrinum and Meconopsis blooming, as well as the rhodies of course. Not a lot was flowering when I was there in July, so if you're a foliage junkie, you're in for a treat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wide path from the parking lot to the garden entrance is through a lushly wooded area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The huge leaves on this rhodie with their powdery undercoating were striking, I couldn't help wondering what it looks like when it's flowering</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know much about much, but I think this might be Wollemia nobilis?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The RSBG nursery's shade pavilion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Should I have bought this Rhododendron sinogrande for $165.00? It's quite a good size. I bought a tiny one several years ago, which died almost immediately after I planted it.</td></tr>
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All the double doors and every vent had been opened, and if I remember right, fans were also going inside. It was surprisingly comfortable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I see this Dendrobium orchid every time I visit, but I've never seen it flowering. It reminds me of a big insect.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magnolia rostrata leaf that someone has carefully laid aside on the bridge railing </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This looks a lot like a Podophyllum, which should be hardy, but it's inside the conservatory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This piece of burlwood with its three "eyes" seemed to be looking at me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just outside the conservatory door is another piece of burlwood also
covered in eye-like formations, with a gesneriad-like plant at its base.</td></tr>
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I took off walking to see what I could see, like the bear that went over the mountain. In various areas they had sprinklers running, so some of the plants were water-spotted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was baffled by this rhodie with its very narrow leaves, which greatly resembled a conifer </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's Rhododendron roxieanum var. oreonastes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here it is interspersed with a real conifer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An enormous patch of Podophyllum pleianthum</td></tr>
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Inevitably I was drawn back to the leaves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I may have stared open-mouthed at the cutleaf edges of this magnificent Schefflera</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bamboo detritus, and one bamboo culm lifting in and out of the soil like a sea creature rising out of the ocean</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another large patch of Podophyllum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ostrich ferns</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matteucia struthiopteris fertile fronds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So coppery!</td></tr>
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I've seen quite a few rhodies this year, at both public and private NPA gardens, with rich powdery coating like this on their new growth, that have me wondering where I can fit something like this into my garden.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfurling fern frond, from Blechnum chilense, I think</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peony and Podophyllum (I know they've been renamed Dysosma, and the RSBG's signage reflects that, but eh)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By July, a field full of Meconopsis seedpods is the only evidence of their previous beauty</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The backlit hairs glow in the sun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pond, with Hydrangeas flowering at its edge, and a covering of a tiny floating fern called Azolla which makes it look deceptively solid</td></tr>
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Across from the pond is the entrance to the Victorian stumpery, one of my favorite areas of the RSBG. I took lots of photos of stumps and twisted limbs covered in ferns and moss and various shade plants, and although I did try to edit them down, it's hard to leave any out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The area contains a little clearing, with a moss-covered, sofa-like huge limb for sitting on.</td></tr>
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It's hard to know what fascinates me more about this place -- the twisted tangle of limbs or the wild abandon of the plants. Perhaps both -- it's such a perfect pairing. In the past when I've visited the RSBG, I've actually quickly bypassed everything just to get here to the Stumpery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fern in front, Dryopteris sieboldii, is not one I've grown, but I was intrigued enough seeing it here that I bought a couple of pots soon after my visit. We'll see how it does.</td></tr>
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I hope you enjoyed this very long post with my photos from my visit to the RSBG.<br />
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The RSBG is also the home of the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, but I
decided not to visit since I'm not much of a fan of bonsai. If you're
interested in seeing some photos of the bonsai collection, my blogger
friend Linda posted about the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection a year ago,
which you'll find <a href="https://lindaletters.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-pacific-bonsai-museum.html">here</a>.<br />
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RSBG also has quite an extensive nursery onsite from which you can buy
or order rhodies and other plants or seeds. Check out <a href="https://rhodygarden.org/cms/shop/order-plantsseeds/">this link to their current list. </a>Fall 2019 ordering is now open.<br />
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If you're on Instagram, you can follow their account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rhodygarden/">here</a>. Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-78582242938383382232019-08-28T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-28T08:11:43.696-07:00Wednesday VignettePoppy season is long gone, but today for my Wednesday Vignette I'm sharing some photos of poppies blooming back in May in the garden of Elaine Berryman.<br />
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Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette. Check out her post <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/wednesday-vignette-garden-friends-and-foes/">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-31060008029228715462019-08-27T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-27T04:00:00.507-07:00The Garden of Sharon GlennBack in May I visited the wonderfully tranquil, park-like garden of Sharon Glenn, a garden newly open to NPA members. <br />
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The Garden of Sharon Glenn</div>
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There wasn't a lot of description to give you much idea of what you'd find, but that last sentence was an understatement. Sharon's garden was magical and delightful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way to the back garden you pass this lovely Clematis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another luscious Clematis -- 'Josephine' I think</td></tr>
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I've really gotten my money's worth from the Open Gardens booklet this season. I love that the NPA can occasionally entice new people like Sharon to open their gardens. It's a wonderful treat to wander through such a lovely, peaceful place.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-46391359781276662592019-08-21T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-21T04:00:03.757-07:00Wednesday VignetteMy picture today is all about perspective. I noticed it when I was sorting through the photos that I included in yesterday's post about Heronswood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It could be an extreme closeup of a small plant like a primula. But it's not. It's actually a group of western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus), and that leaf standing upright in the center is as tall as me (I'm about 5'2")</td></tr>
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When I was putting this post together I looked for a bunch of pithy quotes about perspective to include. The one I liked best wasn't attributed to anyone.<br />
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"When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything."<br />
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I'm going to have to remember that one. All those things that cause me anxiety aren't skunk cabbages, they're really Primulas.<br />
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<br />Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-74509564807270337432019-08-20T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-20T04:00:04.404-07:00Leafy Green Cathedral of Awesomeness<a href="https://heronswoodgarden.org/the-garden/">Heronswood</a><br />
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I visited Heronswood a couple of weekends ago, when Nigel and I decided to spend an overnight trip to the Kitsap Peninsula. It's only about an hour and a half drive from my house, but it's always fun to go away overnight.<br />
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The garden has made great strides in the years since it was bought by the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe. Its renovation was overseen by Dan Hinkley, the original owner of Heronswood. It's now open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the beginning of March to the end of October.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed seeing these photos from my visit.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-47442610608534287642019-08-17T10:37:00.000-07:002019-08-17T14:03:59.332-07:00Tatyana's GardenBack in May, one of the first gardens I visited as part of the NPA's Open Gardens plan, was the garden of blogger Tatyana Searcy. Her garden is always a delight, just as she is herself. <br />
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One of my favorite features of Tatyana's garden is her eclectic collection of garden art. It's sprinkled liberally throughout her garden, and in keeping with that, I'll sprinkle it liberally throughout my post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A glimpse into the back as you round the corner of the house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much nicer than "pot ghetto"</td></tr>
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<span class="hvr">I featured a piece of Tatyana's garden art in a sea of Vancouveria in a past Wednesday Vignette <a href="http://bonneylassie.blogspot.com/2019/08/wednesday-vignette.html">here</a>. You can follow her blog <a href="http://tanyasgarden.blogspot.com/">here</a>, and her Instagram posts <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tatyana.mysecretgarden/">here</a>. I hope you enjoyed this visit to her garden. </span><br />
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<span class="hvr">More visits to come. I have quite a backlog.</span><br />
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<span class="hvr"><br /></span>Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-71387029474885211462019-08-15T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-15T04:00:03.628-07:00Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -- August 2019At one point I was considering calling this post GBBD: Augtober 2019. It's been a rather chillier than usual, rainy August, very odd summer weather for the PNW. Although we have had some days with quite sunny weather and temps in the 80s, we also had thunderstorms, and heavy rain, and quite a few days where the temps have stayed in the 70s. Not really much like our REAL October weather, which is very blustery and cold and rainy. But so strange. Unfortunately, even with our August rain, we are still running at a considerable rain deficit for the year, because our spring was so dry.<br />
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There's still plenty of flowers out in the garden, although I can feel the garden slowing down. I've been slowing down myself.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bee enjoying some Coreopsis</td></tr>
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A few Hydrangeas <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One last daylily</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gladiolus 'Ruby' which has flopped into the foliage of Sambucus 'Black Lace' -- I love this hardy Gladiolus so much I just bought a second one for this bed from Far Reaches Farm</td></tr>
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And a couple of lilies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lobelia 'Queen Victoria'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Lobelia with pink flowers, flowering in the pot ghetto</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Verbena bonariensis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyclamen hederifolium, whose flowers appear before the leaves, kind of a harbinger of autumn</td></tr>
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Starbucks has announced the pumpkin spice latte will return to its menu on Tuesday, August 27, the earliest return ever. Isn't that kind of a harbinger of autumn too?<br />
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Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on the fifteenth of every month. Check out her post <a href="https://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2019/08/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-august-2019.html">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318074663385481374.post-35889869890274622872019-08-14T04:00:00.000-07:002019-08-14T04:00:25.930-07:00Wednesday VignetteToday, a self-portrait. Can you see me?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken in the garden of Karen Mashburn</td></tr>
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Anna at Flutter & Hum hosts Wednesday Vignette. Check out her post <a href="https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/">here</a>.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.com