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Garden Diary: November 2014

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Friday, November 28, 2014. Another nor’easter swept in Wednesday and hung around til Thursday. We got snow, about an inch, with a bit of wind and temps hovering around freezing. There was enough for me to shovel the driveway Wednesday night. Elsewhere in the region people got as much as a foot of snow. Many folks holiday travel plans were shredded. Snow falling on an apple tree. And on a burning bush and another apple. Links to this post.

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Garden Diary: Day VIII, Day IX, Svalbard.

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Day VIII, Day IX, Svalbard. 7-21-15 ALKEHORNET, SVALBARD:. Morning ship's position, heading Southeast. The Vavilov waiting for us to come back. The horns of Alkehornet and grassland. With mosses and tiny flowers. A short, zodiac cruise after the hike flushed some eiders, terns and guillemots. Northern fulmar dining on its catch. Brünnich's guillemots. There is a Common guillemot, Murre, also. Svalbard, extra pix.

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Garden Diary: August 2014

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Steve, Val, Maggie and Lucy arrived a couple days ago for a mini va-ca on their way to take Maggie back to college. Yesterday we walked around the pasture while Maggie took pictures of the first Monarch we saw this season. Then we saw another on our hike. It’s just amazing how bonded Val and Maizie are. New blooms: turtle head, Ligularia dentata. 8216;The Rocket’.]. Blissful photog neck-deep in mint. We have a c...

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Garden Diary: December 2014

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. 12-22-15 NGORONGORO CRATER, TANZANIA:. The road to the entrance of the Ngorongoro preserve is paved until we got to the park. We went through a town, Karatu, the biggest settlement near the park. There were small shops on wheels with tributes to Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. I know Barack was born in neighboring Kenya, but not so for Hilary. The floor of the crater is mostly flat with some hilly areas and ...

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Garden Diary: July 2015

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Friday, July 31, 2015. Svalbard, extra pix. So, in no particular order are a bunch of great pix, mostly birds:. Long-tailed Skua. [Reed Hoffmann.]. Glaucous gull and chick. King eider pair. [Howard Wilson]. Eiders, three males and one female. Arctic tern with fast food. Arctic tern eating on the fly. Links to this post. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Day VIII, Day IX, Svalbard. 7-21-15 ALKEHORNET, SVALBARD:. The horns of Alkehornet and grassland.

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Garden Diary: Day VII, Svalbard.

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Day VII, Svalbard. 7-20-15 14TH OF JULY GLACIER, SVALBARD:. Ship's position - morning further south. Ny London, Camp Mansfield. A short walk took us across small, braided stream to two lakes set above the fiord. Both had lots of nesting water birds, ducks, geese, divers [loons], and terns, and their chicks. We also saw a long-tailed skua and took many bird pix. More barnacles, in goose mode. After we all reassemb...

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Garden Diary: May 2015

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Lincoln Party and Roses. Hot and muggy it is, as Yoda would say. We’re looking for some of that rain soaking the rest of the country, we actually had 0.4 inches, but need much more. Big news. I am not on crutches anymore and have gone into the bushes pruning and trimming and snipping, only three months late. New blooms: roses, peony flower, mock orange, privet. Red rose. So perfect you could cry. Links to this post.

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Garden Diary: June 2015

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Sunday, June 28, 2015. It has been raining all day as well as dark and cold. Yesterday was nice and I did some perennial planting. I put a hollyhock, Alcea rosea ‘Summer Carnival’. In the upper new wall bed, two Maltese cross, Lychnis chalcedonica. And a Bradbury’s Monarda. In the bed below the deck, and three each by the pond of lupin, Lupinus ‘Dwarf Minarette’. And Gaillardia ‘Arizona Red Shades’. Song sparrow, immature, anyone? I don&#...

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Garden Diary: September 2014

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Sunday, September 28, 2014. A Night at the Opera. Before the show we had dinner with my Aunt Jean and Cousin David who we haven’t seen for too long a time. The Palace looks a little drafty. Beds play a prominent part of this farce. Links to this post. Saturday, September 27, 2014. I also got a summersweet, Clethra alnifolia ‘Hummingbird’. I also got four plumbago, leadwort, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. Butterfly bush in red, very red.

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Garden Diary: Cool and Clear.

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Including occasional comments on non-herbaceous beings and events. Wednesday, August 05, 2015. Today is cool and breezy with dry and clear air. We had a cord of firewood delivered last week. It took parts of three days to stack it all, even with help from Judy. There is aged wood, a small stack, that will start the season, and I hope that the new wood will be dry enough to burn easily by mid-winter. New blooms: red lobelia, golden rod. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.