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July 7, 2008

here’s lookin’ at you, kid

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FROGBOY IS HANDSOME, isn’t he? I’m pretty sure I’m really in love this time.

May 23, 2008

the white stuff

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'boule de neige' rhododendron
diphylleia cymosa
daphne 'carol mackie'


PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME know I say over and again that I am not a lover of white flowers. (Like all of us, I say a lot of stupid things.) But then I look around and, surprise, I have a whole lot of them. In these three cases, though, all blooming now, I have the plants for an entirely different reason than for their blooms. You’ll learn what other attributes these winners have if you click on each.

May 19, 2008

more, more, more (and then some)

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WHAT CAN I SAY? I’m shacked up over here with a whole lot of plants, I admit it. Click the photos to get to the third (largest) view for best effects. Enjoy.

geranium phaeum 'samobor'
kerria japonica 'picta'
viola bits and bobs

viburnum sieboldii
viola 'blue bronze'
viburnum plicatum tomentosum

berberis 'gold ring'
aesculus pavia
euphorbia griffithii 'dixter'


May 16, 2008

more, more, more (2)

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AND THE BEAT GOES ON. If April was hectic, May is insane. Already showed you the lilacs, and at least a glimpse of the crabapples, which are fading (more to come on them), but here’s an odd lot of babies who wanted their portraits taken before it was too late. Remember: third click’s the trick (for a juicy image).

primula sieboldii
viola 'terra cotta'
tiarella cordifolia

berberis koreana
Narcissus 'Actaea
berberis 'royal cloak'