The winter killed a lot of the garden and I’m not able to fix it up. But a few things survived. the damage was severe, but not total.
If there was a 911 I could call to help with the garden, I’d be dialing it now! I feel bad for the few flowers left to struggle on without assistance. But there’s nothing for me to do. The garden is on its own.
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THE CHANGING SEASONS – AUTUMN BEGINS – SEPTEMBER 2023 
PICK ME UP AND WINTER’S DAMAGE – GARRY ARMSTRONG 
AND THEN THERE WERE MORE DAYLILIES – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
This is driving me insane. Just so you know. I am now on a mission. 😉
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Good luck. I’ve been on that same mission for years and haven’t yet solved the mystery.
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Dammit! Somehow I ended up as a scary anonymous greenie with bat wings? Likely from clearing my cache today.
Shirley, we can always have someone dig a bit up and send it to me if necessary? 🙂 Going walkabout for a few days…but the mission stays at forefront. Will.Figure.Out. I think.
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I knew it was you 🙂
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Thrilled to see flowers blooming for you!! 🙂
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I’m glad a few made it through the winter!
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Same thing here. I’d given up on the poppies … BUT yesterday we found some beautiful orange icelanders bolding rising !! You can’t keep a good flower down !
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Anything that made it deserves to live. It was a really BAD winter.
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You could dial 911 anyway. A woman in the UK yesterday dialled 999 for police assistance because she didn’t get enough sprinkles on her ice cream and the guy refused to give her a refund 🙂
I’m glad some of your flowers survived.
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It was a very Darwinian winter. I think the ones that made it are immune to weather!
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What is the plant with blue flowers, please?
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You HAD to ask? Shirley you knew I didn’t know. I think it’s a variation on mayflowers, but don’t hold me to it. I was hoping someone else would recognize them and tell ME 🙂
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Shirley, I was counting on it. Regular “mayflowers” are usually a perennial geranium variety. These are not (because of leaves). {{sigh}} Okay, you’ll be the first to know once I figure it out.
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I would really LIKE to have a name for those little blue flowers. It’s been bugging me for YEARS.
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Okay, Mrs. A… Pretty sure this is it… Intergoogle then let me know what you think.
PlantFiles: Creeping Veronica, Speedwell
Veronica umbrosa’Georgia Blue’
Family:Plantaginaceae
Genus: Veronica(veh-RON-ih-ka) (Info)
Species: umbrosa(um-BRO-suh) (Info)
Cultivar: Georgia Blue
Additional cultivar information: (aka Cambridge Blue)
Synonym:Veronica peduncularis (misapplied)
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Not creeping veronica. We have that. It’s much tighter to the ground. Looks kind of like Soapwort.
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Blue-eyed grass? It looks just like our pink-eyed grass, except it’s blue and not quite as tall.
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Don’t know how to respond otherwise, as there’s no “reply” button. Care not to figure it out.
Ummmm, it isn’t blue-eyed grass. Wrong leaf. It isn’t soapwort, wrong shape on flower and wrong leaf. I will look again, when time is available.
Shirley, you know this is the sort of thing that makes me stay up too late, and procrastinate on schtuff I should be doing.
I still think ’tis a form of veronica. 😉
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It just makes me CRAZY until I come up with an answer. Because I’m sure it’s going to turn out to be a very common something.
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Looks like parts of it are flourishing regardless. Maybe your garden is just a “survival of the fittest” kind of thing. You have a Darwinian experiment going on, right in your own backyard! 😀
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Definitely Darwinian. The few that survived the winter are thriving and the rest, eliminated by natural causes. Who knew Columbine were so hardy?
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Yes the winter killed many of my plants this time but hope springs forth and I am tending a new garden in NL also : )
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I think I’ll take mother nature’s advice and plant only the hardiest. It will same me from having to mourn the lost of those others.
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I am really a fan of annuals!
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For me, the perrenials will always win, thought the annuals have more color and flash and dash.
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I once moved into a house where there had been a beautifully kept garden bed. The owner had become older and was sick, so the garden was completely overgrown when I got there.
It was like a magical journey to spend the next two summer digging around and finding buried treasure; I was able to resurrect iris, phlox, spiderwort, coneflower, columbine…..I figured that the weaklings had died off and the hardy warriors had pushed on for the ten or so years of neglect. Maybe you’re working together with mother nature, letting her take the lead.
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Yup. Way to go. If you can’t stand the garden, get yourself to a hothouse!
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Winter can definitely take no prisoners! Here’s to lots of blossoms shooting through soon.
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We now have a lot of flowers, but fewer species thereof. And you know? It turns out, that’s okay.
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Good news ;-D
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The ones that made it are having a great year. So it has all worked out.
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Glad to hear it’s all bloomin’ lovely!
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