FOTD – January 16 – Rhododendrons We had a great spring last year for rhododendrons. This year, without a proper winter and with the garden under full attack from invasive strangling vines, I’m not optimistic. Everything else was suffering through last… Read More ›
FOTD – May 19 – Lilacs and Rhododendrons It was nasty, wet, and in the low 50s today. Saturday it is supposed to hit 100 degrees. It’s hard to believe that given how cold it was today that we will… Read More ›
FOTD – May 10 – RHODODENDRONS This is the way it always happens. All through April, you watch spring happen in the rest of the northern hemisphere and feel deep envy for cherry blossoms and fresh new leaves and blooming gardens…. Read More ›
FOTD – May 1 – Buds Outside, if it isn’t flowering, it’s not budding… yet. It’s a bit late, but it has been dropping to freezing at night, even though it warms up (usually) (but not today) during the day. We’ve… Read More ›
FOTD – February 8 – RHODODENDRONS, GARDEN CELEBRITIES The Rhododendron was growing in the garden when we moved here. For years, it didn’t seem to grow and never bloomed. One years, we chopped down our gangster rose hedges and suddenly, it… Read More ›
FOTD – June 15 – RHODODENDRONS I keep opening cameras and taking out cards, discovering hundreds of pictures I’ve forgotten to download. Today I downloaded almost three hundred pictures from early June that I forgot I’d taken with a bunch from… Read More ›
FOTD – May 24 – Columbine As we were coming home from not buying a car, I decided to take a few pictures. We are heavily in columbine right now. All pink. I didn’t even know it came in other colors…. Read More ›
FOTD – May 18 – Rhododendron and Ground Cover This seemed to go very well with Cee’s green bush and azalea. This is our Rhododendron and some aggressive yellow and green ground cover that has completely taken over our fence. A… Read More ›
FOTD – May 13 – Rhododendron With Many Flowers I thought it might rain tomorrow, so I got myself outside to see how the blooming goes. Our Rhododendron has gone into blossom overdrive. I have rarely seen a Rhododendron bloom… Read More ›
It was cold today. Yesterday was warm — at least for the morning — but it chilled down at night. Today, it never warmed up, even though the sky was clear and the sun was out. I opened all the… Read More ›
FOTD – May 4 – Rhododendron Suddenly, I remembered that the Rhododendrons are up and from the glance I took at them, there are a lot of them this year. It is beginning to look like rain, so I didn’t want… Read More ›
FOTD – January 1 – Rhododendron This year, we had a lot of Rhododendrons. Usually we just have a few, but this year our bush really took off and bloomed!
MAY 21 – THE GARDEN GROWS Coming home, I had my camera and stayed out long enough to get some pictures. I missed the big blooming of the columbine, but there are some new ones with buds. I missed the… Read More ›
FOTD – May 20 – RHODODENDRONS After having cut down our rose bushes so much that they have not grown back, other plants have decided they can grow. The Rhododendrons have been in the garden since we built it up… Read More ›
We’ve had some days of sunshine and that has helped my mood. It hasn’t changed the dynamics of the Coronavirus or its enormous impact on this area. Massachusetts is considered “New England” while New York is considered northern central east… Read More ›
FOTD – May 25, 2019 – Rhododendron We have Rhododendrons. They were growing here when we moved in. A lot of them died during the very cold, wet, windy winter, but some of those I was sure were completely defunct are… Read More ›
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