I has a garden sphere!


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This is not what I expected my kalanchoe 'fantastic' to do.

It looked like this in May when I bought it:


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Thanks for the input of all on which photo to enter in the Gardening Gone Wild Picture this photo contest. I'm going with the crowd favorite--scarlet flax going to seed in the foreground with blooming garlic chives behind:


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Sometime after gardeners have posted their last picture of juicy slicing tomatoes and bragged outrageously about freezers full of homemade marinara, they have to go out and deal with this:


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...time to start cleaning up the garden. Before:


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One of the highlights of Catalina is the Casino:


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Ugh, garden! How do you get all these icky corners ( Read more... )

I could easily have found things to do in the garden, but instead I spent it indoors battling a strange allergic reaction (thanks, new skin-care product!). But it's mostly gone, so let's pass over that yucky episode and see what the garden was doing. Of course, since I was confined indoors, wearing light, non-binding clothing and not moving around ( Read more... )

A week ago, the neighbor kids came and picked the tomato plants bare (at least as close as they could get with short arms...). It was a lot of fun, especially as the toddlers became bored (about 3 minutes) and shouted 'is there anything ELSE we can pick???'

Today we have this:


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