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Correct. Why I usually prefer the binomials. Have got a real jasmine, too!
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glog Eckley's Garden
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Wow, you mentioned my favorite insect and my favorite flower in one sentence! I grew up on the river, and for me, the scent of Buddleia davidii is the "smell of home" that brings back memories
This year, I was lucky enough to encounter the hummingbird moth just once in a friend's garden
in their garden I also managed to photograph (badly) my favorite insect: the hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum), how wonderful! @Harmonic_Heat
Look how that proboscis adapts to that long type of flowers!
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Today is my late MiL's birthday. She loved to grow things, too, and we miss her dearly.
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Ended my dirt break today. Another yard in. I might just go with this bed as it is for the upcoming season, gradually fill it the rest of the way.
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The last plants of the fall arrived today. These are prostrate rosemary to be planted on the east deck rail to cascade over toward the hot tub. Will plant them tomorrow.
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Supposed to be nice and aromatic, too. Looking forward to it.
I read it as prostate rosemary and thought…whatever turns your crankThe last plants of the fall arrived today. These are prostrate rosemary to be planted on the east deck rail to cascade over toward the hot tub. Will plant them tomorrow.
. Never heard of that type but did grow Tuscan blue rosemary 2 summers ago. I still have some dried in a paper bag.
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So the rosemary going on the deck rail requires a long, window box-style planter. But I want them to have plenty of soil volume, and the inexpensive long planters I've used so far aren't enough. I found some larger boxes on Amazon, ordered them. They arrived yesterday shortly after the plants and they are gigantic, lol. They hold ten or eleven gallons or something. It's a good thing they go off to the side.
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Bernie has completely destroyed my bugleweed planting. I'll have to replant it in the spring and put in some sort of ugly barrier to keep her out. Boo. Maybe the Chocolate Chip will be available then.
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Planted a couple Allium nevskianum bulbs in a container this afternoon. Also ordered a little rack with PVC shell for overwintering and seed starting in the spring.
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I've always been a fan of ornamental alliums. Real pollinator magnets too.
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Gonna freeze tonight. Covered the bonnet plant.
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Ordered some chile seeds for next season. Can't remember the last time I grew a hab.
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Sweet Moruga is a good one 
(although I like jobito more as non-hot pepper)
(although I like jobito more as non-hot pepper)
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Got some fuchsia and Coleus cuttings to root. Put up this shim shelf and potted them today. They'll get plenty of light now that the leaves are down out front.
The dogs dug up around half of my winter cover in the 4x4 bed while we were away recently.
Need to assemble a tent for it and reseed today.
The dogs dug up around half of my winter cover in the 4x4 bed while we were away recently.
Need to assemble a tent for it and reseed today.
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