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		<title>Clearing the Forest for a Woodland Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm sure I'm not the only one who has felt an array of feelings since quarantine began.  Most of the time I fall somewhere between a complete lack of motivation, and sheer boredom.  And then every once in awhile I'll get a sudden burst of energy and I'll do all the things all at once.  That is what happened once I started gaining momentum on the new sauna area of our front side yard at the cabin...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My June Garden in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve spent the better part of the last 4 months at the cabin. We head home from time-to-time to check the mail, check on the neighborhood and mow the lawn. I’ve been missing my garden in a major way. I look forward to spring more than any other time of year. I love tending to my gardens, paying attention to every tiny detail and watching closely as they grow bigger and stronger. That being said, I am so impressed (and a little sad) with how well my babies are doing without me this year...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Autumn Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello!  I just wanted to pop-on and share my end-of-season garden with you.  The fall has never been my garden's best look, and I thought why not show the good and the bad.  It's the month of August where I usually give up on weeding and giving general craps about yard work, and it shows.  There's always too many end-of-summer obligations and fun party times - weeding and garden maintenance is the first thing to get left in the dust...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drip Irrigation &#038; Smart Watering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had a problem.  I wanted to spend huge chunks of time at this cabin this summer, but I also wanted not kill my window boxes and lawn due to lack of watering.  What's a girl to do?  A few years back I had set up a timer to our spigot.  The timer was capable of having two different zones, so I ran a hose to the front and back yard and had set the timer to water daily for 10 minutes early in the morning.  It worked, sorta.  I mean, who doesn't like to water their yard when it's raining?  
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		<title>My (Very Tardy) May Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Geez! What is wrong with me! All this summertime business is interrupting my work flow. I took these photos on May 31st, I swear. I love this time of year in the garden because things change so rapidly and quickly and it is so fun to watch and be a part of. If only the weeds didn’t want to grow as fast as all my perennials.]]></description>
		
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		<title>My May Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Friendthrens.  I tell ya, the only downside to having a cabin is not being able to give respect due to the gardens.  They are thriving this year, but they are in desp need of some cleaning up.  I have to actually schedule time in my calendar to hang out with them.  I wouldn't change a thing, but I do miss toiling over them, and I hope I still get a chance to this summer...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gardening in the North Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Guys! The snow still has not melted (because it’s a total jerk), but typically this would time of year would be the beginning of the gardening season. Not only am I excited to get into my garden at home in Minneapolis, but this will mark the first season of gardening in the North Woods of West Wisco...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Make this Starburst Trellis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve got instructions to share today, so that you can recreate a starburst trellis for your garden, garage or side of your house! I had always known that I wanted to run planter boxes along the base of the garage, and after mulling it over it occurred to me that adding a very large trellis might be the exact thing we needed to minimize that eye sore of a garage! 
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		<title>My June Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Backyard Okay budz! This is late, but a very true and accurate post. I took these garden pics at the end of June and have been sitting on them for two weeks. Things continue to be C R A Z Y ! in our summer life. I am trying to be as zen as possible about the purchasing of the cabin, but we are coming down to the final two weeks and there is so much to do and organize. Thankfully, the excitement of it all helps to push me through, but there are for sure times where I feel like I&#8217;m about to lose my god damn mind. After weeks of neglecting the garden because of our busy summer schedule, I have found that in the chaos it is still my chill spot. I was able to spend a few hours this weekend weeding, and I swear it takes my stress level down a few notches. There is still lots more to do, and I hope I can get back at it later this week. That being said, can I just talk about weeding for a sec? I know it sounds like a real shitty no-fun job, but it really isn&#8217;t too bad. You can instantly transform your garden bed in a matter of minutes with a quick weeding. This is true instant gratification, ma friends! I also highly recommend trimming back stuff that doesn&#8217;t look good. I think a lot of newbie gardeners think that the garden is like this precious little thing that can&#8217;t be touched, but seriously it can be. While weeding I deadheaded all my iris, cut back the undergrowth, trimmed my salvia (which encourages a second bloom). Also don&#8217;t forget, if your hostas are looking unruly you can trim them too. I spent some time and trimmed off the under layer of all my hostas which makes a really clean look along borders &#8211; use the trimmed hosta leaves for a hosta bouquet when you&#8217;re done. You might be able to see the effects in some of the below photos. Also, it should be noted that you can trim off hosta flowers too. I think some of them are very pretty and orchid like (I let those ones stay), but the purple spindly ones, not so much. I always chop those things off right away. &#160; Rose Bush This is my &#8216;Music Box&#8217; rose [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My May Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ruby Tears Crab Apple I know, I know! It&#8217;s June 7th, and here I am with my May Garden post. Believe me when I say, that I have taken all of these photos throughout the month of May, no June pics included here :). It&#8217;s always mind blowing how much can change can happen in just one month &#8211; seriously not only in the garden but in life too, ya know! The garden was barely popping through at the end of April, and to see all my perennials come back to life over the last few weeks has been amazing. This is always my favorite month of the garden. I&#8217;m bummed that I never got photos of the dogwoods flowering, it was cold and rainy when they were at there peak only 10 days ago, and I never managed to make it outside to snap a few pics. Take my word that they looked super great. The garden is already feeling unruly this year, I haven&#8217;t gotten through my first good weeding of the season. The boulevard is begging me to get out there, and there is still mulching to do too. I usually have this stuff done right away, I&#8217;m really doing a bad job this year. We&#8217;ve had an extreme start of the season with the whole cabin hunting whirlwind thing. I&#8217;ve got some time over the next few days and I hope to give it some extra TLC &#8211; it will be whipped back in to shape in no time, proms. I actually kind of like weeding, as long as I can find a shady spot to do it in. The kids are out of school next Wednesday and thus begins a summer full of kids, kids, and more kids. I look forward to it, but it&#8217;s definitely a change of pace. We dive (pun always intended) right into morning swimming lessons at the beach a few days after they get out, I&#8217;ll have four kids under my wing so wish me luck. My head is spinning with cabin plans, and I hope to be back to share a few ideas I&#8217;ve got bouncing around in ma brain. Stay tuned. &#160; Veggie Garden &#160; Peony &#160; Sun Garden &#160; Caradonna Salvia Finn and Gus&#8217; favorite plant. &#160; Iris I &#160; Iris II &#160; Iris III &#160; Iris IV &#160; Patio &#160; Climbing Rose Crossing my fingers that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adding Color to my Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 20:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re familiar with the blog, you might recognize the garden picture below. This is the most sloppy garden in our backyard &#8211; there&#8217;s always one that you kinda neglect. I&#8217;ve been slowly filling in the base of the garden with &#8220;leftover&#8221; perennials for the last few years &#8211; by leftover I mean things that I have divided and stuck in here all willy-nilly-like. There are a lot of Hostas, a few Maiden Hair Ferns and some purple Lamium for ground cover. I like the texture of all the leaves but it is a lot of green leafs, and it&#8217;s looking like too much of the same thing. I like the idea of this garden being dedicated mainly to leafy perennials that aren&#8217;t as showy as their colorful flowering counterparts. I think a subtle break at the end of our more vibrant sun garden would be a nice contrast, and since this spot gets shade in the morning and early afternoon, partial sun in the afternoon, and full sun in the evenings, I think it would be an ideal location to try such an leafy endeavor. My go-to for adding color to this garden in the past has been the urn that sits right in the middle of of the small garden. My usual efforts involve cramming that urn full of annuals, watch it spill over and calling it a day. This year I&#8217;m ready to invest in a little perennial color! I&#8217;m sure a lot of you are familiar with Hostas, they are everywhere because they are easy to grow and offer a lot of texture, variations and variegations. Howevs, there is a new leafy wonder in town called the Heuchera or &#8220;Coral Bell&#8221;. Although the shape of the leaves aren&#8217;t as minimal as the Hosta, the colors are pretty amazing. It&#8217;s a mostly leafy plant that produces fine, dainty flowers in the late summer, the leaves are the star of the show. Many have an underbelly that is a shade darker than the topside of the leaf so when they blow in the wind they look kinda awesome. When Monrovia asked if I&#8217;d like to chat about their plants when it came to adding color to my garden, I was like &#8220;Duh, do you know who you&#8217;re talking to? I&#8217;d love to!&#8221; This seemed like the perfect opportunity to fill my garden in with a little more leafy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My April Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 13:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pagoda Dogwood Welp guys, there was a lot of death in my garden this year. This is strange to me since we didn&#8217;t have a worse than normal winter, it was actually a whole lot warmer than normal. A lot of perennial root systems seemed to turn to mush, and I can only imagine that it most likely had something to do with that warmer-than-usual-weather thing that the world has been experiencing. I lost my lupine, my Japanese maple, a peony, my perennial thyme, a heuchera, some ornamental grasses, the allium, a foxglove, and my rose bush took a beating &#8211; nearly all of these were in their second or third seasons so not well established in my yard yet. Anyways, I wanted to share and see if any of you local gardeners are experiencing the same destruction in your garden or if this is exclusive to just my garden in which case if it is, I&#8217;m in trouble. I also wanted to share this destruction with the folks who are feeling like you have a black thumb &#8211; please know that this gardening process is a whole lot of trial and error, experimentation, and plant murder. You learn by testing out different plants and take from that the knowledge of what works and doesn&#8217;t in your garden. Sometimes it&#8217;s just out of your control too, and you have to mourn the loss of some plants and move on. Above you can see my dead Japanese Maple, it died because of an unrelated fungus that plagues my soil and kills Japanese maples. This is the second maple I&#8217;ve lost and it&#8217;s too expensive of a tree to risk repeating again. I am now going to replace that dead maple with a pagoda dogwood. We already have three dogwoods in our yard but they are the bushier variety. I get a lot of questions about them and that&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t really look like your typical bushy dogwood. You can see a picture of them in bloom over here. I have two that sit next to the garage and one on the side of the house. When we moved in they were cut all the way back to the ground and when they starting fiercely popping through the soil and growing at a super fast rate, I had no idea what to do. At this point I didn&#8217;t even know what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flower Bed Break Down : Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello buddies. Long time no see! I unintentionally took a little break last week. There was lots going on around here, I was madly spring cleaning and didn&#8217;t have anytime for the internets. I&#8217;m feeling refreshed and ready to be back typing away this week though. I wanted to continue to share what I&#8217;ve got growing in my flower beds, last time I went through in detail what grows in my sunny border garden. Today I&#8217;m talking about the partially sun/shade perimeter garden. This garden is shaded by our neighbors elm tree for much of the day, receiving the most sunlight in the mornings and late afternoon. It&#8217;s been a work in progress, but we&#8217;re getting there! The &#8220;bump out&#8221; (aka the curvy part of the garden) has gone through the most changes since being planted about 8 seasons ago. For a long time I just stuck plants in this spot and used it as an incubator so to speak. After a season or two, the plants would usually find a new home somewhere else in the garden. Originally the bleeding heart was the centerpiece of this garden, until I tried to split the bleeding heart moving half of it over to the sun garden. The bleeding heart then shriveled up and died while the other part of it lived on and remains happy in the sunnier garden. Since the bleeding heart was all dead and stuff, I bought a small hydrangea bush to put in the center of the garden. It worked well there for a little while until I needed to have a Japanese Maple in the yard and this &#8220;bump out&#8221; seemed like the perfect way to highlight such a pretty tree. The hydrangea moved off to the side, and the maple was now the star of the show. The bummer is, the Maple had fought a battle with some sort of fungus and is half dead. I&#8217;m hoping that after the winter freeze the fungus might be destroyed and the tree can make it through this coming summer. If it turns out to be a lost cause, I think I&#8217;d try and replace it with a pagoda dogwood. I think I&#8217;ve officially dug up this garden and rearranged it about 5 times and I don&#8217;t doubt there could be more times in the future. Anyways, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s successfully living there now: Emperor I Japanese Maple BLOOM [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flower Bed Break Down : Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It just occurred to me (aka I got an e-mail asking what the heck am I growing in my gardens) that I&#8217;ve never actually broke it down and shared with you guys what exactly is growing in my Zone 4 flower beds (check your zone). I&#8217;ve done a lot of sharing about what is blooming at a certain points of the season, but never really shared the makeup of each garden. I think that probably has a lot to do with editing and trial and error. The gardens beds didn&#8217;t start out with plantings in the places they are now. For instance the first and second year I just had stuff placed radomly around the yard, it was kind of like my incubating period. I was waiting for perennials to get large enough to split so I could divide them and make my gardens filled out with better arrangements. I know that there is always going to be editing when it comes to caring for a garden, but I think I&#8217;m at a point where I can share what plants are working where and why. Let&#8217;s start with the side garden that runs the length of our backyard along the fence. It&#8217;s about 3.5&#8242; wide and 30&#8242; long, and sits in direct sun most of the day &#8211; it&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t become shaded until late in the afternoon so sun-loving perennials are a must in this space. Along the edge of the walkway, I have placed Golden Tiara Hostas every two feet or so to make a border. Our first summer at our house I bought two of these Hostas at a garage sale for five bucks! I stuck them in the yard and then split them for two summers. By the time I got to the third summer I was able to have enough of the Hosta plants to split them and run them the length of the garden. Along the back of the garden (against the fence) I have Caradonna Salvia and Asiatic Lilies placed to add color and texture. The lilies are from my Ma and Dad&#8217;s gardens, they are pink, beautiful, tall, and usually bloom in late June or early July. The salvia was store bought, but I only ever purchased one container, and then continued to divide it over the summers until I had enough to scatter throughout the garden. Towards the far end of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Three Plants that Thrive in Low Light Bathrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dudes. Do any of you guys have a bathroom with no light, or low light? We do. Our new basement bathroom is nestled in the center of our home with no access to windows or natural light. If you&#8217;re like me, you realize quickly that bathrooms of this nature need some sort of life to them, otherwise you might feel like you&#8217;re spelunking in some deep dark cave on the edge of the nether portal. My solution to this prob was to add an exorbitant amount of plants to the basement bath. Okay, so the above photo is an exaggeration, but I do have three plants currently living in this dark windowless space. It def makes the overall vibe of the bathroom feel way more lush and inviting. My shower is making home to a ZZ Plant that can basically survive in a closet. I have it nestled out of the way of the shower so it&#8217;s not getting tons of water as it prefers to be on the dry side. I also have a Mother Fern sitting under the sink. I&#8217;ve never had this species of fern before, and I have to say, it rules. Unlike it&#8217;s prettier sister, the maiden hair fern, this lady can deal with limited light conditions, has feathery fronds, and isn&#8217;t as picky when it comes to watering, although you still need to keep her wet (hey-oh). Lastly, I&#8217;ve got a snake plant tucked away in the corner. Treat the snake plant (aka mother-in-laws tongue) bad, don&#8217;t let it have any light, and water it when you think of it, OR DON&#8217;T, she&#8217;ll be fine. If your lucky enough for your bathroom to have a natural light source and you&#8217;d still like some plant companions, consider potting any of the following; Philodendren, Spider Plant, Ivy, Dracaena, or Pothos. Three Plants that Thrive in Low Light Bathrooms Mother Fern LIGHT Shade Loving, perfect for a windowless bathroom. WATERING: Humidity lovers that enjoy wet to moist soil. STRENGTHS: Does very well potted.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fall Window Boxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My August Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here we are, the last garden post of the summer. This year, I can honestly say that I am ready for the fall to come, and for that big autumnal change to happen. Not only am I ready for the colder fall days ahead, but this season change signifies big change for my day-to-day world. Finn started school last week, and today is Gus&#8217; first day at his new school. Life will be different around here. I have time in my days now to begin to focus on the house, this blog, and to begin the process of figuring out how I will define myself in the future days, weeks and months as my full-time mom job winds down. I&#8217;m excited. Okay, so garden stuff. The garden is all ready for the fall, some of the hostas have begun to yellow and I can tell chilly days are right around the corner. Somewhere around the beginning of August I give up on weeding and caring too much about the routine maintenance of gardening. I set timers for the sprinklers and I mow less often, we begin to spend less and less time in the backyard and more time on the porch, as we can all sense that the summer is winding down. I had some successes this summer, and some fails. The Vanilla Strawberry peegee hydrangea tree has been a great addition to the gardens, adding height and color nearly all summer long. I was also pleasantly surprised by my rose bush, it responded well to not being cut back last fall, and as a result, is huge this year. I had a rough year with my veggie garden, and I know I&#8217;ll be reading up over the winter trying to figure strategies for gardening next year. I&#8217;m considering using plants from the nursery as opposed to sowing from seed in the spring, I&#8217;d love to hear pros and cons of this if you have experience. I have ideas of adding one more sunny vegetable bed in the spot on the side of the house where the orange day lilies are now. The day lilies burn out towards the end of the summer and I think tomatoes or peppers might benefit from the space better than the lilies. The soaker hose irrigation system sprung a leak early on and I never felt confident leaving it on a timer (in fear [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My July Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea I can not even believe that it&#8217;s time to share my July Garden. Holy smokes, what a summer! It&#8217;s especially been a great summer for the kids, which is what I had hoped for, I think they&#8217;ve enjoyed it, and I feel insane. Like I&#8217;ve said, August is gonna rip in the not-having-much-to-do department. My goal for this years gardening season was to focus on having more late summer blooming flowers, and I think I&#8217;ve done a pretty good job of doing just that. There is always tweaking that needs to be done, but it feels like it&#8217;s getting there. Last year I planted two Clematis on the fence hoping to fill in the gaps where we can see clearly into the neighbors yard. Last year the Clematis bloomed once and then nothing, I was disappointed because it was advertised as a continuous bloomer. This year the Clematis bloomed in the spring and then nothing, and I was bummed yet again. Hold up! Just this week I noticed that they are re-blooming, uh, Yay-yer! Also, as a note to myself : Scoops, one of your Clematis is struggling, so make sure not to pull it out this fall or next spring, k? I added a climbing rose to the garden which I am super excited about. I planted it near our Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea tree, and am hoping to train it to grow back along the fence. We have a concrete pad near our garage and there isn&#8217;t much dirt-for-growing-things available along the fence because of it, so I&#8217;m really hoping this rose does the task of filling in. The rose will be most prolific in the mid-late spring and then will re-bloom sporadically throughout the summer. Oh, and did I mention that it has the prettiest light peach colored flowers? I also planted some Astilbe, this will be my second attempt at growing Astilbe in my garden, I don&#8217;t know what I am doing wrong, but they just don&#8217;t seem happy in my yard. I planted 5 new plants, three of which are this barely pink Delft Lace variety and two of which are a smaller raspberry colored variety. All of the plants leaves are browning and curling and I think they all hate me. I guess we&#8217;ll see what next spring brings. If they do come back, they will be blooming in July and August, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My June Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Window Boxes Guys! July is the craziest month for me, I know I haven&#8217;t blogged in like 2 weeks, I know I&#8217;ve had photos sitting on my camera for nearly as long. My boys both have birthdays this month, combined with long holiday weekends and cabin adventures, theres just no time left to say &#8220;whazzup&#8221; to you dudes. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer timez. Things are going pretty great over here at casa Allen. I&#8217;m typing this from the beach &#8211; My weekday mornings have been spent watching the kids take swimming lessons. Like I mentioned in the last post, I&#8217;ve been working like crazy trying to get my house ready for the fine folks from Do It Yourself Magazine to come and photograph our home for a feature that will be coming out in January (!!!!). They will be here next week, so things are totally nutzo right now. We spent a long weekend with my folks, brother and sister-in-law, at this tiny but very sweet cabin in Northwestern Wisconsin. Many beers were drank, bodies were swam, and fish were caught. We packed it all in! Things have been good. Anyways, gardens. They are a thing. I&#8217;m always surprised how much they can change depending on conditions from year-to-year, and I&#8217;ve been really happy that I&#8217;ve kept this annual summer gardening diary up. It has really helped to enhance my gardening game, and I suggest my gardening budz out there to do the same &#8212; even if it&#8217;s not actually on the internet. The major blooming plants are almost done for the year. I just went shopping and grabbed a few more July-August bloomers because my gardening goal for this season was to fill in the later summer perennials. The flowering Hydrangea tree I planted this spring turned out to be a good idea! It&#8217;s just starting to flower and it looks so pretty in the backyard. I highly recommend for anyone looking for a summer flower with height :) &#160; All grown from Seed Both these Impatiens and Petunias were all sowed indoors! &#160; Impatiens &#160; Strawberry &#038; Cream Hydrangea This is that Hydrangea tree I was talking about. The flower should turn pink later in the summer and they will stay blooming into the early fall. &#160; Strawberry &#038; Cream Hydrangea &#160; Shade Garden This is the shadier side of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My May Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ruby Tears Crab Apple I know I&#8217;m a little late on the May Garden post, but I promise, I took these photos right at the end of the month. It actually works out really nicely that this post got pushed back because it lands on my favorite gardener&#8217;s birthday, my Ma (aka SugarMommaD)! She has instilled in me the love of gardening and nurturing schtuff, and she&#8217;s so fortunate to be able to celebrate her birthday during the most perfect and beautiful time of the gardening season. Love ya, mom! The above and below pics are of our other Ruby Tears crabapple tree (aka Gus&#8217; Tree), it flowered the second week of May, but I had to include it because it makes the backyard look super amazing. Also, I&#8217;m having trouble with &#8216;Apple Scab&#8217; on my other Spring Snow crab apple in our front yard, I guess this is common to happen after the tree flowers, and this year it was so prolific. I am treating it with a topical spray for now, and am having an arborist come to give me a consultation tomorrow &#8212; I am scared for it. &#160; Veggie Gardens &#160; Radish The veggie garden has been good this year, for the most part I like the irrigation set up. It has sprung a leak once or twice, but it&#8217;s really easy to repair. I would prefer it not to spring any leaks, though. Our timer is also kind of junky, one of the timers gets stuck, leaving the water running forever. Eventually I will be investing in a digital timer so that we can set it to water when we go on vacations n&#8217; stuff. The actual veggies are doing great, peas, radishes, carrots, potatoes and greens are thriving. Unfortch, my green beans sprouts have been obliterated by slugs, (eew). I read on the internet, that if I put beer in a pie tin the slugs would want to go drown in it, and it totally worked. There have been no signs of them since. I took a risk and planted my cuc seeds a week or two early, and when we hit a cold snap I botched the germination process, so I am a bit behind the eight ball on that front. All and all, it&#8217;s been fun, and the kids like it too. &#160; Bearded Iris My grandma gifted me a bunch of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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