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Good to hear about the tomato plants! The peonies are gorgeous!
Everything looks great! I have everything crossed for the Larch Tree. 🙂🤞😊👍 I hereby declare June 16th as LISA’S LARCH TREE DAY!
btw what was the herb that was so invasive? Was it mint?
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Thank you Jen! I’m going to put that in the calendar on my phone and do a post on it next year 🙂 No, it isn’t mind, the leaves look like the foliage on mums but oh this stuff goes out of control and takes over wherever you plant it. Thankfully it is in a contained bed right now and hopefully eradicated from that bed in the fall (will put pulled up plants in the trash bin instead of the compost bin. I will try to remember to take a pic of it.
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Yah I’d be interested to know what the herb is. Try to do an image search. I do that all the time. Mum leaves eh? Hmm
Happy future LARCH DAY! 😊
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Jen, I just added a picture of it at the end of my post. It’s dark outside but my camera has a flash so I was able to take it.
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ok I’ll look
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It looks like Mugwort. Hmm
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Jen I think you’re right! Just scanned some pages. Some think it’s a useful remedy but it’s considered an invasive species in a lot of places. That is not what she called it at the nursery! I see it is a kind of artemisia.
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Your garden is looking lovely.
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Thank you, Sadje 🙂
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My pleasure
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It is good to see the that the larch made it to its new home.
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Thank you, Mark. I’m sure you know planting a tree that size is a lot of work. So relieved it’s done now. I’m sure the tree is also.
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Great photos. Love your bluebird box and bird! Your tree should do great in that spot. Tomatoes will come back.
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Thanks a lot, Dwight.
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Love your garden, Lisa. A little bit of heaven. The larch looks happy next to the ginkgo too.
pax,
dora
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Thank you, Dora. I can’t wait until they each grow enough to touch branches.
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Umm Hmm
https://insightweeds.com/beneficial-weeds/
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YES. Thank you! It’s a noxious nightmare. I don’t care how medicinal it is it’s going bye-bye real soon! OK what topic do you want your poem on, Jen 🙂
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Poem? OMG
I dunno.🙂
I’m just glad I could help. But maybe ,,,,
In keeping with my little Sparrow friends, who visit me everyday/all day. They’ve really been great to have around. One of the regulars is bringing a fledgling. 💜Its so cute.
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Slim Verse for Jen
sparrows hop
branch to soil
fledgling fluffs
to get fed
Thanks again, Jen!
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Thankyou so much Lisa! 💜 Sweet!!
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You’re very welcome and I’m glad they are keeping you company.
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It’s great! I put a small container of water out and they use it too.
Thanks again! 🙂
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I loved that bird house. That pink peony looks amazing. 3 blossoms! I hope you can get rid of that invasive plant and save your peonies. I’m glad the tomatoes have recovered. Let me see if I can find out what that invasive herb is. Great garden, Li!
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Shweta, thank you for the glowing words on the yard. Jen Goldie identifed it as mugwort.
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You’re very welcome, Li. Oh. That’s great! I’ll beware of mugwort.
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Lovely to see the larch tree taking root! 🙂
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It’s happy, yes!
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Great job Lisa….I love the picture of the ladybug on the Pink
Astilbe…that is good enough to be framed.
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Thank you!
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Everything looks great. I’m glad the tree found a home too. Keep the updates coming! (K)
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A litany of relief this week: got the tree planted, got the mower back, got all of the mowing done, and it rained all last night. Life is good. I will!
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It is (strangely).
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Very nice. May the larch grow tall and proud! That’s so nice having bluebirds using your box! Love those little birds… one of few things I like about here more than the North is that they are still pretty common in these parts (also were in Atlanta). Up in Ontario they were rare, there was a whole nestbox trail in our county but most years still only had maybe half a dozen pairs total over 20 miles or so of appropriate terrain and scattered boxes.
That white peony is great. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one though I haven’t actually looked for them…
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Thanks, Dave. I hope so too! I just looked up types of bluebirds and see there are Eastern, Western, and Mountain. You probably have the Western or Mountain type? Maybe your type in TX isn’t as shy as these Eastern ones? They really avoid humans! Once I get the mugwort eradicated I hope to replant with more colors. I used to have a beautiful light pink one, now only these 2 shades in this raised bed. I do have 3 other nice plants out in another bed but it doesn’t get enough sun. They will be transplanted to the revamped full sun bed. One of those is yellow and not sure what the other ones are they haven’t ever bloomed.
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Excellent! Glad to hear the frostbit tomato plants made it!
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Truly amazing! Thank you, J.
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Amazing captures Jade.
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Jude, thanks much. My plants are my family.
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Hey! Don’t call me a plant. 😅🙏🏾
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LOL ❤
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