Tag: flower garden
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Garden Inventory | Anemone sylvestris
I do enjoy spring ephemerals. They’re the sort of things that we could never grow when I lived in California because the springs were never cool enough. During most summers here in Finland, they’ll stick around at least until midsummer. This is Anemone sylvestris (arovuokko), the snowdrop anemone. Not to be confused with the wood…
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Garden Inventory | Dicentra formosa
This is my first Dicentra formosa (purppurapikkusydän), the fern-leaf bleeding heart, variety ‘Luxuriant’. It came in the same order last spring as my white spectabilis and seems to be slower to start growing. However, it was also accidentally covered by garden equipment for half the season last year so didn’t have the most ideal start.…
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Garden Inventory | Dicentra spectabilis
A few days ago, I stumbled upon a much more established Finnish garden at Vanha Talo Suomi and was especially impressed with her neatly organized specimen list. At last count, I have four different spreadsheets and three apps around to keep track of things, and somehow manage to not efficiently update any of them. This…
Little Blue and White House 