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A First Moment
I think my new border is having it’s first moment..
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Border Building
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/HenrikaGardening/borderbuilding1.jpg Almost the whole border Time flies when you have a lot to do… Work, renovating more than half my home and tackling this beast of a border that I started on last fall. The border is going fairly well. I’ve improved the soil in the shade curve with lots of peat based compost and I’m doing the same with the rest of it. Last fall I bought garden soil (around 20 tonnes) and it has been good in the sense that it is weed free (not counting all the maple seeds that since landed in it and then germinated) and it seems to be nicely fertilized. What I’m not…
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Project Exhaustion
If it weren’t for the weather I would be quite excited about the new border I’m making. I’m finally going to have a large perennial border that will suit both large perennials and grasses. There will be two passageways through it so there will also be nice spots for smaller and lower plants. There will be mostly perennials, but a few woody plants so it’s not quite a modern perennial border à la Piet Oudolf, but a mixed border with some prairie touches. Absolutely no cottage garden though. “Project Exhaustion”, or perhaps it’s called “Project Fatigue” is however, what I’ve been feeling towards my massive new flower bed during the…
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Forced Inside
It’s really raining too much for digging so I’m back inside again. It’s been a very busy summer and I had to take a break from blogging. The summer has been filled with gardening and I’ve seen a lot of gardens and flowers and as the fall goes on I imagine I’ll have time to share some pictures. I’ve been using Instagram so here is a sneak peek and a little collage of a few pictures. Most of my gardening pictures have the hashtag #aplantaday which no one else seems to be using right now. There are more pics in the new sliding sidebar on the left! In the first…
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