Month: August 2023
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In a Vase on Monday | 28th August 2023
Bright late summer colors are everywhere! Dinner plate dahlia Holland Festival, a couple of particularly charming striped bedding dahlias, godetias and ‘Happy Lights’ figleaf hollyhocks in the back. The buds on the hollyhocks are closed right now, but one is a matching pink to the godetias and the other is a very dark purple. Rudbeckia…
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Six on Saturday | 26th August 2023
First week back at work, so I’ve not been able to get out into the garden as much as I would like. As a result, I’ve prioritized harvesting ahead of weeding and am just going to have to let whatever is in pots languish a little longer until I can get them into the ground…
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In a Vase on Monday | 21st August 2023
Above is a picture of the basket that I take with me into the garden every morning. Around this time of year, in addition to the secateurs, snips, and gloves, I also pop in 2 plastic tumblers of water so I can gather flowers along the way. I never know what might be blooming and…
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Six on Saturday | 19th August 2023
Just when I thought that I’d missed Finnish summer due to our July trip, it’s reappeared after last week’s storms. It’s been mild and sunny this week, which has been great for catching up on weeding, harvesting, and all the other stuff that I’ve fallen behind on. I’ve even started sowing for an autumn/winter garden,…
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In a Vase on Monday | 14th August 2023
Lilies started blooming in the cutting garden this weekend! Pictured above are a combo of tree lilies (the big dark pink one and the big light pink buds that are just opening) and Asiatic lilies. All my lilies came in variety mixes, so unfortunately, I do not have names for any of them. For the…
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Six on Saturday | 12th August 2023
It’s been a wet and windy week, but I slept through most of it so that worked out well. The predicted big storm did indeed knock over some of my taller flowers, but everything else remained unscathed. Considering we are surrounded by an entire forest of very tall, violently swaying trees, I’m not one to…
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In a Vase on Monday | 7th August 2023
Rudbeckia hirta ‘Prairie Sun’ with mixed Achillea millefolium ‘Summer Pastels’. They were growing next to each other in the cutting garden, so I figured they might as well go into the vase together too! This is the first time I’ve grown anything in the Rudbeckia family and I’m so happy with how they’ve turned out…
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Six on Saturday | 5th August 2023
We just returned from a two-week trip and are dealing with some intense jet lag, so I won’t try very hard to make words work today. Here are some pictures instead! 1. Pinkcurrant (Ribes rubrum ‘Aili’) got picked yesterday. They probably should’ve been picked earlier, since it looks like the birds got about half the…