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Bloom Thyme Friday: Foggy Morning
This morning was so beautiful in the garden. I love fog, it makes even the rainy days special.
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Bloom Thyme Friday: I Can See Clearly Now … UH OH!
Maybe you remember the happy little tune, I Can See Clearly Now … It’s gonna be a bright…bright… sunshiny day and so on! Well, “seeing more clearly” has me in a tizzy today. I better go back and start...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: I Can Hardly Sleep
There is so much going on in the garden this week (see pics below) … I can hardly sleep. I’m afraid I will miss something!!!! Mr. G and I were up early (still kinda dark) to do a quick garden …...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Buds and Blooms Today
Here’s what’s blooming in my neck of the woods today…
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Bloom Thyme Friday: The Difference a Year Makes
Yes, a year can make a lot of difference! I started a new rose bed on a very hot July day last summer when I visited a local garden center and was introduced to THE GRANDE DAME … To read … Continue...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Beating the Heat
This is a week of record high temps (99 – 103), so I find myself extremely grateful for the plants that are “beating the heat.” Just when I was about to panic about the lack of water and intense heat,...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: It’s A Wonder
I don’t know about your grocery store, but many of our grocery stores have potted plants for sale. One that does it best is Kroger. They seem to pick all of my favorites and place them right by the...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Daylilies and Drought
Today when I walked out into my garden I was struck by how sick many of the daylilies look. Daylilies can usually take the heat but we are now into our 8th week of drought. I really like daylilies but...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Let There Be Peace
The Peace Rose is one of the most famous and beloved roses of all time. I had this rose once upon a time, in fact … it is one of the first roses my son gave to me– which made … Continue reading →
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Bloom Thyme Friday: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. Part 2.
Today we start 9 weeks of drought… as you know my garden is very large and I have had to limit watering to my roses and tomatoes and alternating trees and shrubs that are closest to our living area. As...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: A Glorious Morning Walk
This morning I had a most glorious walk through my garden! The drought is over and many of my roses and their companions in the garden think it is spring! I am looking over green grass, glossy rose...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: 2012 Top Ten
For us in the midwest this was the year of the drought. For 9 weeks we had no rain. Most of the pictures of the entries for the 2012 Top Ten are before the drought began. However, there are a …...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Bill Warriner
The Bill Warriner Floribunda is one of my very favorite roses. I refer to it as my blooming machine. It is rarely without bloom. Bill Warriner was bred by Keith Zary of Jackson and Perkins in 1996 and...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Hyperion Daylilies
This week the garden is filled with color but most of the color is not coming from the roses. This is the time for the rose companions to take center stage. One of the flowers taking center stage is...
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Bloom Thyme Friday
This week most of the roses are taking a break and getting ready for another big flush giving many of the perennials and annuals their “time to shine!” And they are going for it… See what I mean… The...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: This week in the garden…
Here in my world the temps are lower than normal and that makes for some wonderful garden thyme! The garden is looking more like spring than fall this week as the roses are coming back to bloom! Know...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Growing Amaryllis
Originally posted on The Garden Diary:I love Amaryllis and my husband and I love to give Amaryllis bulbs as gifts. Last year we gave away 30 or so. Many of the recipients had never grown an Amaryllis...
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Bloom Thyme Friday 2014
It is time to start Bloom Thyme Fridays even though I am currently sitting in my potting shed while the weather channel is issuing extreme weather warnings … flooding, gale force winds and dropping...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Getting Started
This has been a week of temps in the 70s and some much needed garden clean up and planting bare root roses. But, before I could plant the new roses, I had to remove the roses that did not make …...
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Bloom Thyme Friday: Excited about everything!
The above is VERY true! Today is a wonderful day and I am excited about everything! It’s Good Friday and I know He lives. Gonna be in the 70s for the next 10 days. I planted roses today in the …...
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