Tag: plants
group name: homecomfort
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June 03, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
I know that they do. I always talk to my plants, large outdoors ones and small houseplants. It benefits them in many ways, not the least of which is that they take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. . . . more
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June 13, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
Some time ago I published an article about a mystery plant. While I got no identifying answers, I now have a flower to add to the puzzle. So here is the plant and then the flower. Please help if . . . more
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May 28, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
First I want to let all the readers know that I am NOT and never have claimed to be a GREEN THUMB. I got lucky, though, because we actually rent a home that was previously owned by a MAGICAL FLOWER PERSON. . . . more
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May 29, 2008 10:38 PM EDT --
I was so excited that I was able to see, (and smell), the lilacs in bloom on my second trip up to Illinois. My grandma has a few of them on her property. They were just gorgeous, and smelled wonderful! . . . more
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April 08, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
I was walking around my yard looking at everything that's blooming. I took the camera with me, of course! Here's a few pictures I took from my yard.
This first photo is just a shot of what's . . . more
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May 27, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
I have a small pond in my backyard, and I was out there cleaning out the pump and filter, and I saw this fat guy! He was swimming in my pond.
As you can see, the pond was in desperate need of . . . more
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June 13, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
While taking th dogs out this morning, I found that two of m rose bushes had little rosae buds. It rained last night as well, so the raindrops looked beautiful in the sun this morning!
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April 04, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
A few weeks back my mom and I went to a park in thew next town over. I believe it's called Bradenton Botanical Park.
It was beautiful. I think I posted a couple flower photos right after we visited, . . . more
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July 11, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
Welcome to my home guys. Come on out to the back yard and we can go for a little walk! ENJOY!
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April 30, 2008 10:58 PM EDT --
I was so excited to see tulips, daffodils, iris starting to pop through the ground, and even lilacs budding when I went up North. I don't get to see those things here in Florida. It's been almost . . . more
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August 04, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
We had Sunday dinner at my grandma's yesterday, which I thought was the perfect opportunity to show off the beautiful new book I'd won on Gather from DK Publishing.
After we ate a gigantic . . . more
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July 11, 2008 01:39 PM EDT --
I am still on my mission to use hundreds of homegrown cherry tomatoes. So, this week I made a batch of "sun dried" tomatoes or what we call "Mater-Chips."
We do this every . . . more
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May 27, 2008 11:13 PM EDT --
I've been working like a mad woman so far this spring on fixing up our property and doing some landscaping around our home and yard. I'm trying to increase our property value, because I'm . . . more
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June 10, 2008 09:28 PM EDT --
In my last "Landscaping My Yard" article there were two areas of my yard I was wanting to concentrate on next - what I called my "bench area" and an area where I wanted more privacy. . . . more
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August 22, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
With a click and whirr of grasshoppers' wings,
summer breaks into song...
These are the days of reckless clouds and
untamed sunlight when hooky is the only game in . . . more
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August 31, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
Since summer is nearing its end I thought I would share comparison photos of the landscaping I've done throughout the warm months. Many of you have probably seen the photo essays I did when . . . more
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September 01, 2008 10:23 PM EDT --
I have been saving a small cache of photographs that I took at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm (registered in the "National Register of Historic Places") in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, . . . more
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April 06, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
Geocaching in Arizona
(All photos taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8)
Robert and I bought a GPS for our combined gift to each other for our anniversary coming up April 14 th . We've . . . more
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