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Six on Saturday: Feb 24
Happy Saturday to each and every one of you gentle readers! As you can see, winter came back overnight with one of those lovely snows that frosts each and every surface and makes the landscape clean and beautiful again. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, gardening, Indiana gardening, Orchids, Six on Saturday, spring blooms
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January ’24 in Review
The above photo of the potager was taken on one of the very few (only 6!) sunny days in the entire dismal, gloomy month of January. It was a fairly quiet month, with fewer meetings than usual. Mother only had … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, Growing indoors, Indiana gardening, lisianthus, monthly review, Potager, Seeding
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I’m skeptical!
The amaryllis parade has continued non-stop, and since most of them were posted during last year’s parade, I haven’t bothered to include them here. However, this is one I was really looking forward to “lifting the gloom” just after the holidays. I … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, forcing bulbs, Indiana gardening, indoor gardening, winter blues, winter gardening
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Too cold to swallow & too windy to spit!
Happy Saturday! I hope you are able to stay indoors where it’s warm! It was 1 degree F this morning at 8am. Thankfully, I have no where to go and can stay in and enjoy the unusual sunshine. As I watered plants on the … Continue reading
Flowers to lift the gloom
As for many of you, the exuberant flowers of amaryllis really lift my spirits during these dreary, gloomy days. I’ve amassed quite a collection over the years, and since they keep producing baby bulbs the number keeps increasing. Just as the first … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, houseplants, Indiana gardening, indoor gardening, Orchids, Winter blah
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And February just flew by!
I intended to do a February monthly review in a timely fashion, but here it is March 9th already! It’s always perplexed me how a month that’s only two days shorter than most of the others SEEMS so very much … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, February, Indiana gardening, monthly review, ranunculus, spring growing
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Belated Valentine’s Greetings!
Hope that on Valentine’s Day you had some sweetness of one kind or another, or of many kinds! I have enjoyed my many amaryllis bulbs coming into flower over the past weeks, but these bright orange “Nanjara” really outdid themselves … Continue reading
Fighting the Winter Blues
It’s late January and we’ve had over a week without sunshine. The past two days we’ve had snow. Yesterday everything was shut down for a “Big Winter Storm” with 6-10″ predicted. Schools, businesses and roads were closed….. We got 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, growing older, Indiana gardening, SDD, seedlings, winter blues
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And the winner is….
With an astounding 11 blooms, this second year (in my possession) “Terra Cotta Star” amaryllis is the winner! At least so far! This photo was taken early, before most of the blooms were fully open just so you could actually … Continue reading
The Amaryllis Parade
Amaryllis (actually Hippeastrum but isn’t that an ugly name?) is one of my favorite flowers to brighten the scene in winter. Unlike some people who plant up several for the holidays, I pot one bulb every week or ten days … Continue reading
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Tagged amaryllis, Brent & Becky's bulbs, Indiana gardening, indoor bulbs
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