Sunflowers

We only have a few opening up right now, because we planted most of our sunflowers to bloom in September. Sometimes I wish I lived in a warmer place, just so I...
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Coming soon…

My favorite flower 🙂 We didn’t start planting sunflowers until mid-June, so the ones that are opening now are all volunteers. This looks like a Sunny Smile (F1) dwarf sunflower, about 3...
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4th of July

We spent much of the day out in the sun, and went for a nice bike ride. Beautiful weather this weekend, and rain possible tonight. I always hope for rain over night....
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Flowering Onions

Onions are biennial plants, which means the first year they make bulbs (which you typically eat). If you don’t harvest onions the first year, they will come back the second year and...
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May Flowers

A lawn care company left a flyer in our door yesterday. We are part of the 57% of families in our neighborhood who don’t use herbicides on their lawns. I prefer watching...
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Signs of Spring

Before the weekend, we still had 6″ of snow covering the ground. It’s amazing how fast things change this time of year! Of course, CBS says that we may see 3-5″ of...
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