Posted in garden, recipe on Jul 8th, 2009
The first thing on my agenda after putting the kids to bed tonight was smore making. You see, we have plenty of smore fixings in the pantry after a backyard campout with the kids over the weekend (balloons in the tent, jiffy pop, flashlight tag, smores, it is all good.)
and my sugar addicted mind realized [...]
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Posted in garden on Jun 25th, 2008
Since we’ve lived in this house we have sadly removed five trees from our property. Brian has claimed that the Crape Myrtle was a mercy kill–it was sick and pitiful. The European White Birch was poorly placed and our lot is small so it had to go. Brian’s dad tied a rope around trunk and [...]
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Posted in garden on Jun 23rd, 2008
The former owners of our house planted this Golden Arum Lily which has just bloomed for me for the first time ever.
It is especially fun to have in the garden because while I was a horticulture student at Cal Poly I grew the pink species of this plant. At the time I called them [...]
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Posted in garden on May 28th, 2008
Last year Grandma Toki gave me a random Oriental lily plant that was likely one of those flowering plants you buy at the florist that may as well be a cut flower. You know…the plant usually gets disposed of as soon as the blooms die. I had a little space in my mish-mash flower bed [...]
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Posted in garden on Mar 29th, 2008
If we could replicate this heart shaped strawberry that we found in our strawberry patch then we’d be stinkin’ rich!
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