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Posted by admin to Mr. Hyper, animals, backpacking, family, friends, girlgonegardening, grass, green, hiking, spring, trees, video, wildflowers, work on 2008-03-03, 07:15:00

46*, 100% humidity, sw 6 mph wind, Rain, FLOOD WARNING, FLASH FLOOD WATCH I'm going to talk about me for a few minutes, mainly because I'm in a meditative mood. Contemplating the state of things, perhaps brought on by the coming spring and the new job. You see, there are two sides to the coin of Girl Gone Gardening, an that is mainly why I keep two blogs. There used to be only one main blog,

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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-

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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

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Posted by admin to bulbs, trees, video, work on 2008-02-11, 09:29:00

10*, feels like -2*, 82% humidity, E 10 mph wind, light snow, SNOW ADVISORY, FLOOD WARNING I got the job. WOHOO! BOOOOYA! Ahem.To celebrate, I ordered some trees. 2 apricots, 2 pears, and a sour cherry. The order comes with 6 free asiatic lilies, from Stark Bro.

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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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Posted by admin to Flowers, cactus, chores, daylily, garden, herbs, houseplants, pets, roses, succulants, trees, veggies on 2008-01-16, 11:20:00

Today I got around to separating some of my seedlings-- the catnip and the daylillies. This is bad... Why? because I didn't expect so many, that's why. I misjudged how much space they would take. This was my plan: A shelf for perennial flowers (I already have a shelf and a half plus a kitchen windowsill), a shelf of herbs for my herb garden this year (already there is a half shelf of just catnip

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Posted by admin to photos, roses, seeds, trees, white on 2007-12-29, 12:06:00

26*, feels like 18*, 73% humidity, W 7 mph wind, cloudy Rosa rugosa rubra seeds going into a baggy for cold stratification... Rosa rugosa white seeds soaking. Virginian Rose seeds after a soak. Japanese maple seeds after a soak.

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Posted by admin to Dirt, girlgonegardening, links, roses, seeds, trees on 2007-12-26, 08:26:00

35*, 78% humidity, calm wind, fair (Dang, It's a nice day!) It wasn't long ago at all that I was wondering if my hellebore seeds would take 3 years to sprout.... http://girlgonegardening.blogspot.com/2007/12/seeds.html Well, they don't. Nope. I looked this very morning, and low and behold, not 1, but 2! seeds have sprouted on me. WOHOO!!!! I am so proud of myself. I guess soaking them first in

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Posted by admin to California, Frost,, animals, expiriments, farm, food, fruit, garden, girlgonegardening, holidays, hostas, roses, seeds, stealth gardening, trees, weeds on 2007-12-25, 07:23:00

26*, feels like 18*, 81% humidity, S 8 mph wind, fair Santa brought me seeds. He must of visited my home early in the evening. I got home to check the mail and I had a package from Angel Grove Tree seeds. WOHOO!! I ripped it apart and found 4 packs of seeds. These are more expiriments for me: Acer palmatum atrolineareRosa rugosa albaRosa rugosa rubraRosa virginianaWith the seeds, came some very

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Posted by admin to Little Osa, animals, food, holidays, houseplants, trees on 2007-12-21, 05:43:00

1) Knock over the Christmas tree 2) Knock over almost all the Christmas decorations 3)Break an ornament 4)Break African violets (now how did she figure that one out when Freya hasn't?) 5)Eat more food then I've ever seen a kitten eat in one sitting (No wonder this one is a little round ball of fur...) 6) Managed to use the litter box!!! :) (Cats are ever so much easier to litter train then any