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Yellow Pot Tuesday, Aug 11 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, northwest Connecticut, photography 19:51
Morning Constitutional Sunday, Jul 26 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, photography 20:05
Little Kitchen Garden: Daylilies, Black-eyed Susans, Jacob Kline Monarda, Raspberry Monarda
A tiny portion of the baby brigade which numbers around twenty (the bachelor band, eight strong, comes through in the evening)
Red Daylily, classic old fashioned hostas beyond
The Big Garden
Orienpet Lilies (Holland Dreams and Lavon), some Jacob Kline Monarda
Casablanca Oriental Lilies, Black Snakeroot in the foreground
Beneath the Library
I’m eating your daylilies!! (actually, he was enjoying the Boltonia that shouldn’t be growing there.)
Snapshots Tuesday, Jul 21 2015
gardening and Landscapes gardening 21:10
…the scent of lilies drifting beneath diamond pane library windows, their cream, gold, and raspberry balance tones a balance to the green and white building.
….a flash of neon pink and orange in a green bowl: the monarda, garden phlox and daylilies set off by the white shasta daisies and all against the green trees. Hot, hot colors and a cool setting
….the arching blue bells of the hostas, hundreds of them scattered through the woods, and a determined hummingbird visiting each and every one.
….sheets of rain racing across the hills, then golden fog, and clearing sky
Rockets Saturday, Jul 18 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening 21:08
Firmly ignoring the nonsense of the world, high drama in the garden!
Left to right: Black snakeroot*, hybrid lilies, ostrich plume astilbes, and garden phlox. The snakeroot is hitting seven feet this year.
*Better known as Black cohosh, Bugbane, or cimicifuga racemosa, snakeroot is the Connecticut term for it.
Go ahead, take my picture Wednesday, Jul 15 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos daylilies, photography 22:43
I’ll keep right on eating.
Daylilies, Shasta Daisies, Wild Thyme down the driveway, and the American Chestnut just past bloom.
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Classic Connecticut July Friday, Jul 10 2015
Landscapes connecticut, daylilies 19:55
The hay is being cut as I write this.
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Just busy Friday, Jul 3 2015
gardening and Landscapes gardening, photography 19:37
I know, it has been awhile.
Finally got the clematis and grapes on the pergola under control today, much less sprangly. It is always remarkable how one or two pruning cuts and a few piece of twine can improve things. Definitely summer here, hot weather and hot colors: white, orange, neon purple or pink, hot orange-reds. Some nice cool pinks, purples, and blues in the shade though.
Since, however, I haven’t taken photos of any of that yet, you will get some random Connecticut scenery for a change of pace:
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Poppies! Friday, Jun 12 2015
gardening and Landscapes gardening, iris, poppies 21:40
and iris, and salvia, and just in the background the Tulip tree doing its thing, which wasn’t very obvious this year: too hot I think.
Poppies: ‘Beauty of Livermore’
Iris: ‘Breakers’ (blue) and unknown yellow
Salvia: ‘Mainacht’
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Green Maple Tuesday, Jun 2 2015
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, japanese maples, photography 22:23
I know, Japanese Maples are supposed to be red. But, some of our seedlings are green, and a lovely green it is. Besides they go flame orange in the fall. And yes, the trunk is green.
Now if only I could a)find and b)get to grow a cut leaf seedling. I had one, that one in a million (quite literally, anyone need a Japanese Maple seedling?), but it died.
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Monday, May 18 2015
Landscapes and Modern Photos 20:45
Framing by apple tree. Or, where we will not be planting a tree anytime soon!
It is remarkable how green things are, even without any rain (we are severely short for this area, spring drought seems to be a recurring pattern, which is making me ponder long term planting locations). The suddenness of the new growth is always surprising.
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