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Category Archives: Foliage Follow Up
Foliage Follow-Up Day – January 2018
The biggest news from my garden this month is that I – FINALLY – took the time to thin out my black bamboo. Wow – should’ve done that years ago… It looks so much better now… So, that is the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, evergreen climber, Ferns, Foliage Follow-Up, grasses, January, shrubs, winter foliage, winter interest
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Foliage followup day – December 2017
It looks like our long stretch of sun and cold winds might have ended. Lucky me – I managed to get a decent, sun-drenched shot of one of my perennial infatuations. I apologize for constantly posting shots of Melianthus major, … Continue reading
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Tagged arum, bamboo, cabbage, euphorbia, foliage, holodiscus discolor, optical opposites, pretty leaves, texture
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Foliage Follow-Up Day – November 2017
Today was a much better day for outdoor photography than yesterday. Sure, it’s still wet, but it’s nowhere near the kind of deluges we had then. Not a whole lot to see out there right now. Parts of the yard … Continue reading
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Tagged fall foliage, foliage, foliage color, Foliage Follow-Up, garden, My garden
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Blooms and foliage – August 2017
This has been a terrible summer for me, in terms of keeping up on blog memes – I have missed several months worth… Once (or was it twice?), I even missed my own, and had to play catch-up later in … Continue reading
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Tagged August, blooms, foliage, garden, gardening, pacific northwest, PNW
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Foliage Follow-up and belated Bloom Day – March 2017
Apparently, sometimes it is in ones favor to be fashionably late. Yesterday, on Bloom Day proper, it was so grey, wet, and miserable here, that I would have worried for my camera’s safety bringing it outside without an umbrella. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloom Day, foliage, Foliage Follow-Up, late spring, March blooms, signs of spring, weird weather
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Post-election Blooms, Pods and Foliage – November 2016
A garden is a good reminder that life goes on, outside of our human drama. And, it its a good place for demons to disperse, and some semblance of sanity to be restored. I spent some time putzing around out … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloom Day, fall blooms, fall foliage, Foliage Follow-Up, garden, november, unfinished projects
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Foliage Follow-Up – September 2016
A couple of days late, but figured I wanted to join in with Pam at Digging’s monthly meme anyway, celebrating the best and boldest of any garden – the foliage! Head over there for a treat you don’t often see, and … Continue reading
Foliage Follow-up – May 2016
Head on over to Pam at Digging to see what pretty foliage is manifesting itself in gardens around the globe.
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Tagged arisaema, bamboo, Ferns, foliage, foliage combinations, Foliage Follow-Up, manicotti, Melianthus, peony
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Blooms and foliage – April, 2016
Lack of time made me think it a good idea to make a mixed post of both the flowers and leaves of April, for everyone’s favorite monthly memes. Thanks to Carol of May Dreams Gardens for hosting Bloom Day, and also to … Continue reading
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Tagged April, Bloom Day, foliage, Foliage Follow-Up, rainbow, showers, spring flowers
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Wednesday Vignette and Foliage Follow-up
It always irks me when people who say they want “color” in their gardens mean that they want Petunias, or whatever flowering marvel du jour. What do they think this is – chopped liver? Besides being time for my usual Wednesday … Continue reading
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Tagged black foliage, color, color in the garden, contrast, yellow foliage
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