Category: gardening
Gardening in Oregon
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There’s a reason they call them day lilies. I assumed they would make disappointing cut flowers. Who wants one that just lasts a day? What I didn’t think through until a couple of days ago was that the stalks have four or five or six buds on them. You cut one stalk, bring it in…
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They are huge, OK? When I slip by them at night to run the garbage out, they loom well over six feet tall. Spiny tough. Love a good swamp. That’s gunnera. Rumor has it they date back to the Cretaceous period 100 million years ago. And by rumor, I mean scientists have found their fossilized…
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I should have done it sooner. Should have known why sooner. For all my devotion to nasturtiums–bright, messy, self-seeding, edible–I had no idea that the little spur coming off the back of the flower is full of nectar. I’ve had them here and there in the garden, but this year I potted them up on…
