Garden 2024
2024 was another good year in the garden. Photo gallery.
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Garden News 2023
In the garden this year, there was a fair bit of wood getting cut. Apart from the damage the rabbits did to the burning bushes, we fairly drastically thinned the lilacs, turning them from a hedge into individual bushes at the bottom of the garden. The smoke bush (yes, I get confused with smoke bush […]
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Powell Garden 2022
2022 was another strange year for growing things. We started some Morning Glory seeds inside and got a good response, but then the transplants didn’t do so well. A couple put out some half-hearted blossoms and then seemed to give up. Until September, when another pair took off and produced a number of decent flowers. […]
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Garden 2021
While we had some setbacks in the garden this year, in general, it did us proud. The weather, of course, was crazy. In March we were hanging a swing-chair from a bough on the Honey Locust and enjoying the sunshine. In April, we had snow on the ground, and by the time we opened the […]
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They plough the fields and scatter
We feed sunflower seeds to the bids year-round. You may have noticed that we have the most-photographed bird feeder in the history of bird feeders. We also have five planters that we place around the garden, four in the back where the feeder is and one around front, nowhere near the feeder. Each spring, we […]
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Summer Garden
Our garden is looking splendid – especially in the evening light and when the close-ups don’t show any weeds!