Gardening in the North
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No signs of spring yet up here in the north. Days are getting longer and I am getting more and more impatient. Still two more months to go before you can plant something outside. That does not seem to stop me from planting everything possible inside. Chilies have germinated and so have the coleus seeds.…
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The first dahlia just started to bloom. I have been waiting for this. They always add color to the autumn garden. It has been rainy but it seems to suite the dahlias well. They are growing strong after a slow start. Do not have that many varieties this year. There is always a limit how…
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It is time for the marigolds to start blooming. Only have color orange this year. Up here in the north marigolds are one of the most reliable annual bloomers. Not that sensitive to cold and can take different kind of weather without suffering too much. I think I will have yellow ones next year just…
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First cosmos flowers are starting to bloom. The ones I have gotten from my mom always go first. The others follow a month later in August. I have been trying to find an early blooming variety with no luck. Simply because the summers are so short up here in the north. This far I have…
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Bought the seeds for this poppy simply because it looked a bit unusual. Turned out that it is a beautiful one and surprisingly easy to grow. The combination of white and read is quite striking. Also the shape of the flower is not regular. Have been waiting and waiting for it to start blooming and…
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Many and plenty! For some reason aquilegias have always been one of my favorites. Cannot have enough of them. This year I have managed to have five more varieties to bloom and I am happy. After several trials even Nora Barlow has started to bloom for the first time. The challenge is that I have…
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A newcomer to my flowerbed. I am surprised how easy it was to grow and even though the summer has been cold the flowers are doing well. I guess the name just suggested that it is for a warmer climate. They do though seem to have an ability to predict the weather. If it is…
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Beaten by the heavy summer rains but still blooming nicely. Baby blue eyes is very reliable and one of the early bloomers when it comes to the annuals. It seem that some of the seeds made it through the winter since I have flowers growing in places I did not expect. Simply adore the color…
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Why orange? Siberian poppy comes in many colors – white, yellow, red. But for some reason only the orange ones are able to make it through the winter. Do not know why but now all the ones I have are orange. Only in the autumn the colors are many due to the seeds I have…
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The slowest ones of the tulips have made as well. Due to the cold weather the blooming season for the tulips has been exceptionally long this year. Normally the tulips are long gone by this time of the summer. Cool and whimsical weather just seems to continue. Today we have had beautiful sunshine, thunder, rain,…
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