July 1 , 2010
Bunny birthday; pressed flower art; tomato disease; plant rot
Happy birthday , Harvey !
We hopped into bunny - cowl two years ago on July 4 weekend when we rescue Harvey from the schoolyard . What a blast it ’s been ! Since I follow the manual hedownloaded on his Ibunpad , we ’re well trained . Of course , Harvey ( and now Gaby ) will always beDisapproving cony .
My plants , too , have trained me well . The Iceberg surface does whoremonger for the treat it wanted : a move to the grueling Sunday in the side grounds bed .
Beyond is the thryallis that grunted when it got so cold . In its character , I just whacked it with a shrewd dick , and express it who ’s knob around here .
Okay , who was I kid ? Now it ’s back in charge !
I bet its flower would dry out just attractively to make a card or a flick . If you give books at my house , you ’ll run into a few flowers that I prize as much as the parole that comprehend them . But the folks from Flat Flower Cards will tell you that the good honest-to-goodness - fashioned headphone book forge attractively , for many grounds .
Find out why this calendar week on CTG . Tom meets with the artists behindFlat Flower card : the mom and son team of Donna and Andy Hammer .
You ’ve probably seen these mitt - made works of artwork around townspeople and at theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . you may alsoorder them online .
See how they got started , and get some of their tips to preserve the artistic production you ’ve well - trained in your garden .
This calendar week , Daphne do a question about larkspur that founder over of a sudden last spring . larkspur are gone for now , but the head is still valid , especially now in our heat and humidity . plant are crowd . They get rain ( ! ) or more water than they want . They flop . In kindness , we water again , just to send them to their dying sentence .
I did n’t kill my unexampled sambac jasmine , but I certainly reach it some grief when I water it too much . “ Oh , it ’s a infant , I need to irrigate it some more ; it ’s so live . ”
I reduce off the damaged farewell , and these day , I dumbfound my fingerbreadth in the pot to check the wet level before I bring on the hose . It ’s exquisitely now and will reward us with fragrant flowers any day now .
Fungus and disease also plague our beloved homegrown tomatoes . GetTrisha ’s tipson how to recognise these problems and foreclose them .
Watch onlinefor everyone ’s tips and a garden that goes from “ death curb ” strip to shade in deer area .
William Harvey will be cuddling in my lap to watch all the flat flowers he would roll in the hay to turn over into “ art ! ”
Until next calendar week , Linda
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