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Rain

More plants, and planting

August 14, 2003

We went to the grand opening of a Home Depot in Keene last night. Their nursery isn’t great, but we did get some good deals. We were a bit disappointed in how many zone six and seven plants we saw. Keene might be zone 5, but most of the hill towns around Keene are definitely [...]

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The Stargazers Arrive

August 8, 2003

It has been a terribly rainy week. I managed to get the lawn mowed yesterday, then it rained all night. The stargazer lilies are open, and gorgeous. Unfortunately, some of them seem quite short, even though we composted them last August. I’m hoping that compost this spring and fall will get them back on the [...]

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A break in the rain

August 4, 2003

We had heavy, heavy rain most of the day today. I remain quite surprised at how well all the flowers are holding up, because the rain has been so hard that I expect to look out and see all the flower stalks lying on the ground, but so far, so good. The hollyhocks are blooming [...]

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And so starts August

August 2, 2003

We’ve had pretty heavy rains all week this week, and the flowers in bloom in the garden are really starting to show the strain of all the water weight. The Shasta daisies in particular have mostly flopped over and started to rot, turning into a most unattractive slime heap. Ick. So I went out and [...]

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Lilacs and webcams

June 4, 2003

More and more rain. It’s depressing, though I’m telling myself it’s really good for the garden. We’ve turned off the irrigation for weeks now, because the ground is water-logged already, even the window boxes. The bugs are horrible, too, probably because it’s been so damp. The lilacs are blooming, even the bush near the poppies, [...]

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Planting Glads and Dahlias

June 1, 2003

Gah, more rain today. But we knew it was coming, so we got out there early in the morning to finish up stuff that really had to get done. It’s getting very late to plant dahlias and glads, and I’m glad they are all in now. I wasn’t sure where to put them. The spot [...]

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No breaks in the rain

May 28, 2003

We went outside straight away after work tonight, when it had stopped raining for about twenty minutes. We’d wanted to start digging up the trillium that I found takers for on gardenweb. We fed the fish. I don’t think they yet understand that what we are throwing in the pond is fish food. The water [...]

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