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The August Garden
This is a visual journal of my garden. Each month I add some of the
highlights. There are pics of Evelyn (2 shots! I just can't get enough of Evelyn), Fair Bianca, Graham Thomas and the Penthouse in August. http://home.ca.inter.net/~stevedor/EGarden4.html And there's a shot near the bottom of the July page of the hideous fluorescent worst/best orange rose, Summer Sunset. I've been working on this garden since 1996. The conditions are ideal for sun lovers and part shade lovers. The soil is decent, but the property is a bit slanted so there are areas, like the wildflower slope, that are quite dry, and lower corners that are almost always wet. The roses are in a bed that's partly over what used to be the septic bed, so it drains extremely efficiently ... too efficiently, it turns out, for Evelyn. Fussy hussy. I put her in that area this spring, but I'll have to move her to a slightly less well draining part of the bed. As with real estate ... it's all about location, location, location! Doris |
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The August Garden
In article , Doris
wrote: This is a visual journal of my garden. Each month I add some of the highlights. There are pics of Evelyn (2 shots! I just can't get enough of Evelyn), Fair Bianca, Graham Thomas and the Penthouse in August. http://home.ca.inter.net/~stevedor/EGarden4.html Doris, your Stargazers are beautiful. Nice shots. |
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The August Garden
Fantastic shots -- everything looks so lush & green! (It seems to be
feast or famine here in North Carolina these days -- of course, all the rain here doesn't do my front yard much good, as I swear there is not a level spot anywhere on it!) Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "Doris" wrote in message ... This is a visual journal of my garden. Each month I add some of the highlights. There are pics of Evelyn (2 shots! I just can't get enough of Evelyn), Fair Bianca, Graham Thomas and the Penthouse in August. http://home.ca.inter.net/~stevedor/EGarden4.html And there's a shot near the bottom of the July page of the hideous fluorescent worst/best orange rose, Summer Sunset. I've been working on this garden since 1996. The conditions are ideal for sun lovers and part shade lovers. The soil is decent, but the property is a bit slanted so there are areas, like the wildflower slope, that are quite dry, and lower corners that are almost always wet. The roses are in a bed that's partly over what used to be the septic bed, so it drains extremely efficiently ... too efficiently, it turns out, for Evelyn. Fussy hussy. I put her in that area this spring, but I'll have to move her to a slightly less well draining part of the bed. As with real estate ... it's all about location, location, location! Doris |
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The August Garden
Cass wrote:
In article , Doris wrote: This is a visual journal of my garden. Each month I add some of the highlights. There are pics of Evelyn (2 shots! I just can't get enough of Evelyn), Fair Bianca, Graham Thomas and the Penthouse in August. http://home.ca.inter.net/~stevedor/EGarden4.html Doris, your Stargazers are beautiful. Nice shots. Thanks, Cass! I love my lilies as much as my roses (hope that's not blasphemy in this group!). The Casablancas (pure white) have an amazing perfume. When the lilies were going strong, they were wafting into my home office day and night when the breeze was just right. I wish it could be like that year round. At the moment there are just a few last Martagons ... but not enough for wafting in ... and you have to get up close and personal to get a whiff. Still, it's better than what's to come. Sigh. |
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The August Garden
Anne Lurie wrote:
Fantastic shots -- everything looks so lush & green! Thanks, Anne. But now you know why I didn't show you the highlights of the lawn. ;-) (It seems to be feast or famine here in North Carolina these days -- of course, all the rain here doesn't do my front yard much good, as I swear there is not a level spot anywhere on it!) I can relate. We've even tried to level parts of our yard, but it just ends up with new lumps, bumps and pits. But at least this house was built in the days before they scraped away the top soil pre-construction. There's always a bright side ... and a wet side ... and a dry side ... ;-) Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "Doris" wrote in message ... This is a visual journal of my garden. Each month I add some of the highlights. There are pics of Evelyn (2 shots! I just can't get enough of Evelyn), Fair Bianca, Graham Thomas and the Penthouse in August. http://home.ca.inter.net/~stevedor/EGarden4.html And there's a shot near the bottom of the July page of the hideous fluorescent worst/best orange rose, Summer Sunset. I've been working on this garden since 1996. The conditions are ideal for sun lovers and part shade lovers. The soil is decent, but the property is a bit slanted so there are areas, like the wildflower slope, that are quite dry, and lower corners that are almost always wet. The roses are in a bed that's partly over what used to be the septic bed, so it drains extremely efficiently ... too efficiently, it turns out, for Evelyn. Fussy hussy. I put her in that area this spring, but I'll have to move her to a slightly less well draining part of the bed. As with real estate ... it's all about location, location, location! Doris |
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