Old favorites
My second favorite daylily – an elderly man on the next street over ran a small garden center and traded me the starts for these in exchange for a division from my patch of old-fashioned double daylilies. Some past...
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Grandmother’s doubles
Old-fashioned double daylilies grow rampant in my perennial bed. Twenty years ago, when I was laying out the gardens in the first house my husband and I bought, a cousin shared starter plants with me. She’d obtained hers...
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The ubiquitous bindweed — harmless and pretty along the edge of the road, a creeping, smothering, unstoppable terror in the garden. Photo by...
Read MoreBad Hair Days
Posted by admin | Jun 23, 2005 | Birds and Beasts |
I suspect I don’t have much of a future as a professional sheep shearer. Tinkerbelle seems to have forgiven me. (Sweet feed is a great bribe!) I’ll trim around her face and even out her haircut in a few days. Right...
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