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Deja Vu – The Big Freeze
Considering the volume of *content* I was cranking out last week, it may have been a surprise to all 6 of you regulars who check on my blog to see that I haven’t posted since Monday. Well, we have been very busy preparing physically… spiritually… emotionally… for the cold snap that came barreling through Central Texas this week. As my husband would say, this wasn’t my first rodeo preparing for the cold weather. I saw the forecast early on and did my best to protect my plants (detailed here), but as a Southern California native new to gardening, it was quite a struggle for me. The Calm Before the Ice…
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Iris I Knew What All These Plants Are!
Hi guys, it’s me, just hanging out in the irises! I know I said that I would be posting more about the flowers I had actually planted myself, but… here we are again, the blooms planted by the original homeowner Master Gardeners (OG MG’s? that’s how I’ll be referring to them from now on) are really starting to pop up. Irises are interesting flowers – you can plant the rhizomes, and year after year, they will multiply underground to create more flowers. In the limited research I’ve done, it appears that we can dig them up and split them to promote more growth. The ideal time of year to do…
blogging about buds & blooms
