Waking up to Smells, Rampaging Roses, More Seeds, and the Not Rocks

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Posted by admin to Flowers, Sasha, Winter, animals, blue, brown, leaves, rocks, roses, seeds, spring, summer, veggies on 2008-03-08, 11:20:00

25*, feels like 15*, 45% humidity, NW 10 mph wind, partly cloudy, FLOOD WARNING Spring is close. I know it now. This morning I woke to that change in the air, that indescribable smell that wakes me every year when the spring switch is thrown. And though the day is most certainly NOT spring like, there was that smell. It's close. It's coming! Speaking of smells, I also got a whiff of summer as

Girl Gone Gardeing with the Morning Grumpy Butt Syndrome

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Posted by admin to Dirt, Waldeath, Winter, animals, books, chores, food, girlgonegardening, houseplants, roses, seeds, spring, summer, tools on 2008-03-06, 08:29:00

28*, feels like 19*, 73% humidity, WNW 10 mph wind, cloudy, FLOOD WARNING It was a difficult morning to wake up today. I slept a sound 8 hours, which is more then the norm for me. 6 hours in the winter, and 4-5 hours in the summer is my sleeping schedule. I was tempted to just stay in bed instead of getting myself motivated for the day. After all, I had things to do like feed the animals, water

Virginia Wild Rose and Fun at Work

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Posted by admin to animals, friends, hiking, roses, seeds, walk, work on 2008-03-05, 07:38:00

28*, 83% humidity, calm wind, mostly cloudy, FLOOD WARNING I've been pleasantly worn out the past couple of days. Not the kind of worn out that comes from sitting at a desk for 16 hour stretches at work, brain dead, wishing to be anywhere but there and then not being able to sleep. But the kind of worn feeling you get after a good day of hiking, where your body is moving, that makes you sleep

Pet and Plant Updates

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Posted by admin to Buttons, Little Osa, Pink, Sasha, Winter, blue, chores, daylily, garden, herbs, hostas, pets, photos, roses, shrubs, spring, veggies, video, yellow on 2008-02-27, 09:32:00

Since I don't have much in the way of winter interest in my garden yet other then this dwarf arctic blue willow..... I'm going to stay focused on the inside today. My old gal Sasha is in for surgery today, so while the dog is away, I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning. getting rid of a godawful amount of dog hair from the couches and all that. Just seemed like a good idea to do it now while

Fruit Line Up

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Posted by admin to food, fruit, garden, roses, seeds, shrubs, trees, vines on 2008-02-24, 16:23:00

32*, feels like 26*, 75% humidity, SSW 7 mph wind, cloudy, WINTER STORM WATCH I'm going to be adding quite a bit of more edible landscaping/ fruits to my garden this year. Wild Elderberry---on order, Pintree Garden SeedsCranberry, Stevens---on order, Pinetree Garden SeedsRaspberry, Lantham-red--- on order, Pinetree Garden SeedsStrawberry, Sparkle---on order, Pinetree Garden SeedsGrape, Concord-

Seed racks strike again, rose update, and some bargains.

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Posted by admin to Flowers, cheapskate finds, ferns, houseplants, ivy, photos, roses, seeds on 2008-02-23, 15:39:00

31*, feels like 25*, 54% humidity, SW 6 mph wind, fair, FLOOD WARNING It seems like this time of year, despite the fact that I have MORE THEN ENOUGH seed to last a life time, I can not resist browsing the seed racks. I mean catalogues are bad enough, but at least you can't pick up the packets, shake em around to listen to the seeds, smell them, feel their pretty glossy pictures......It seems no

The WOES of Cat Ownership, Sasha pupdate, and TOO MANY SEEDLINGS!

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Posted by admin to Freya, Little Osa, Sasha, cactus, daylily, garden, ghetto, herbs, hostas, houseplants, pets, photos, roses, seeds, succulants on 2008-02-16, 08:04:00

31*, feels like 23*, 54% humidity, SSE 8 mph wind, fair, FLOOD WATCH Sasha Pupdate: Sasha is now schedualed for surgery on Wedensday-- They are going to remove the growths and flush her kidneys too. Too Many Seedlings! Remember those Rosa seeds I ordered from Angel Grove Tree seed? Well I had no idea every seed would decide to sprout. I have over 80 rose seedlings, and I haven't even begun to

New Sproutage

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Posted by admin to roses, seeds, trees on 2008-02-13, 08:51:00

19*, feels like 8*, 65% humidity, NW 9 mph wind, fair, FLOOD WARNING I get kind of antsy for baby plants this time of year. Any seeds I put into cold stratification are fair game. So yesterday, I took out from the crisper, a few baggies of seeds and put in a few baggies that have been given warm stratification first--like Japanese maples, Virginia rose, and hellebore. Out came the rugosas and

Oslo, Norway

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Posted by admin to Fort Oslo, Klaserose, Oslo Norway, roses on 2008-02-11, 05:46:00


Above 2 photos: Fort Oslo, Norway

Above: Klaserose 'Riberhus' Poulsen 1998... Bred in Denmark by Poulsen
A floribunda, with repeating flower clusters, throughout the season.
Full growth, with a mature height of about 4 feet.
Sold as 'Grand Canyon' is the USA.

Above: Klaserose 'Astrid Lindgren' Poulsen 1989... Bred in Denmark by Poulsen
A floribunda, whose flower clusters repeat occasionally through the summer.
This is a tall beauty, maturing at 4-8 feet.
May be more familiar as 'Dream Sequence'.

Above: Klaserose 'Fellowship' Harkness 1992... Also known as 'Living Easy'
Bred in Hertfordshire, England by Robert Harkness & Co.
Introduced in the USA by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, as 'Easy to Love'
Floribunda, whose orange clusters repeat throughout the season on a 2 1/2-5' shrub.

Klaserose 'La Sevillana' Meilland 1978... Bred in France by Marie Louise Meilland
This red floribunda is also a repeat bloomer.
At 2-4 feet, it can also be trained as a ground cover.

Special thanks, again to S.R. Calef for the ©2007 photos from his European cruise.

Disclaimer: The above photos are not mine, although I am grateful for such photos and the opportunity to share them, through this blog. I am not a world traveler. Not even close. On three separate occasions, did I travel great distances from my New England home. Are you ready? Mapleton, Maine - Mystic, Connecticut - Desmoines, Iowa - "that's all folks!" Seriously. So, I guess I'm living vicariously through the travels of others. Who knows, maybe someday I'll get me one o' them new-fangled digital cameras. Mustn't rush these things. Perhaps I'm still in mourning for my poor little dead Advantix camera... at some point, I shall move on.

HelpMeFind/Roses may be of interest to the avid or casual rose grower... The "Rose Search" capabilities are marvelous - you can join and contribute, as well.

©2008 Deb Lambert

Look what I found. Just a bit of Americana.

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Posted by admin to American Pie, farm, photos, roses, trees, walk on 2008-01-29, 12:50:00

I think it is an Oliver Corn Picker, but I'm not a farmer so I don't know about farm equipment. I found it off trail in the woods round here on my morning walk. Its been here a little while as trees and brier roses have grown up around it.

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