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  • A dry March

    • Post published:March 30, 2022
    • Post category:Native plants/Phenological calendar
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    Cladonia species

    March turned out to be very dry. This meant it was one of the better years for photographing crocus. Usually, the unrelenting rain mashes them…

    February photographs

    • Post published:March 22, 2022
    • Post category:Native plants/Phenological calendar
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    Juniperus communis 'Hood View'

    I always have more ideas for blog posts than I have time. And lots and lots of pictures. How does one whittle it all down…

    Hacking away

    • Post published:March 22, 2022
    • Post category:Drought tolerant plants/Storm damage, snow, ice, drought, pestilence
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    Roots forming on the lower trunk

    Today's post documents some of the winter pruning I have been doing on my dwarf Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa 'nana'. First off, was cutting out…

    Buckwheat

    • Post published:March 13, 2022
    • Post category:Garden tips/Native plants/Propagation/Rock garden
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    I decided to try something new this winter. This rather untidy looking mass of gray leaves is a white-flowered form of the arrowleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum…

    19 and holding

    • Post published:March 12, 2022
    • Post category:Drought tolerant plants/Garden disappointments/Native plants
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    Garrya x issaquahensis 'Glasnevin Wine'

    19. That, of course, is the temperature in Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius) that we dropped to after I wrote "Is winter over?" Then it rained. A…

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