Comments on: Vignettes http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kris http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Kris Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:42:11 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/gardens/vignettes/#comment-706 Thank you, Mr. McG's D, Jodi, Layanee and Kim! I didn't mean to imply that we were actually ready for winter - 'nearly ready' is a relative term! We've still got the North and Rose Gardens to dissemble, tulips to plant, dahlias to unplant, dry and pack up; one of the Display Garden beds has to come out still and be replanted and the list goes on! This should be the last week for the volunteers who will probably clock about 45 hours of garden time. Don't be fooled by my optimistic wording - we're all at the same stage! Mr. McG's D, When you sniff your Calycanthus, try crushing the leaves. I always catch the scent of ours as I walk by it but then if I just stick my nose in the leaves, the scent disappears. I think the fragrance might be coming from fallen leaves underfoot ... Kim, There is absolutely nothing silly about keeping the Cannas going - milk those blooms for all they've got! Some years we can get the last gasp out of the tender things but frost is late this year and we've just got to keep on schedule. It's actually good for things like Dahlias and Cannas to be hit by frost first... Thank you, Mr. McG’s D, Jodi, Layanee and Kim! I didn’t mean to imply that we were actually ready for winter – ‘nearly ready’ is a relative term! We’ve still got the North and Rose Gardens to dissemble, tulips to plant, dahlias to unplant, dry and pack up; one of the Display Garden beds has to come out still and be replanted and the list goes on! This should be the last week for the volunteers who will probably clock about 45 hours of garden time. Don’t be fooled by my optimistic wording – we’re all at the same stage!

Mr. McG’s D, When you sniff your Calycanthus, try crushing the leaves. I always catch the scent of ours as I walk by it but then if I just stick my nose in the leaves, the scent disappears. I think the fragrance might be coming from fallen leaves underfoot …

Kim, There is absolutely nothing silly about keeping the Cannas going – milk those blooms for all they’ve got! Some years we can get the last gasp out of the tender things but frost is late this year and we’ve just got to keep on schedule. It’s actually good for things like Dahlias and Cannas to be hit by frost first…

]]> By: Kim http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Kim Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:47:21 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/gardens/vignettes/#comment-700 LOL at witchhazel flowers being Tim Burton-esque! I never thought of them that way before, but you are so right. :) My garden is like your personal garden in that it is more pleasing to look at the vignettes instead of the big picture at this point. Unlike your Blithewold Garden, however, my own garden is not quite ready for winter yet! I need to bring in a rex begonia and the elephant ears that are drying/dying back. I actually have a few more perennials to tuck into the garden and some garlic to plant. And of course I need to dig up my canna bulbs. Frankly, the frost will have to take those first--I'm so enamored with having their tropical-looking flowers blooming still that I just can't bear to cut the bloom short, even just by a day. Silly, isn't it?! LOL at witchhazel flowers being Tim Burton-esque! I never thought of them that way before, but you are so right. :)

My garden is like your personal garden in that it is more pleasing to look at the vignettes instead of the big picture at this point. Unlike your Blithewold Garden, however, my own garden is not quite ready for winter yet! I need to bring in a rex begonia and the elephant ears that are drying/dying back. I actually have a few more perennials to tuck into the garden and some garlic to plant.

And of course I need to dig up my canna bulbs. Frankly, the frost will have to take those first–I’m so enamored with having their tropical-looking flowers blooming still that I just can’t bear to cut the bloom short, even just by a day. Silly, isn’t it?!

]]> By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Layanee Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:38:36 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/gardens/vignettes/#comment-696 Kris: You are so right about the small vignettes! Looks like the bride will get wet. I am so not ready for winter. Nothing cleaned up and still garlic to plant! Kris: You are so right about the small vignettes! Looks like the bride will get wet. I am so not ready for winter. Nothing cleaned up and still garlic to plant!

]]> By: jodi http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/comment-page-1/#comment-694 jodi Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:04:15 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/gardens/vignettes/#comment-694 'The pockets of lovely'...what a great turn of phrase Kris. And am I ready for winter? No.....but today is a new day and I hope to do a little bit here and there around the garden (like planting some of those bulbs!) ‘The pockets of lovely’…what a great turn of phrase Kris. And am I ready for winter? No…..but today is a new day and I hope to do a little bit here and there around the garden (like planting some of those bulbs!)

]]> By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/vignettes/comment-page-1/#comment-693 Mr. McGregor's Daughter Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:07:04 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/gardens/vignettes/#comment-693 I like your description of the Witchhazel flowers! I never noticed whether my Calycanthus foliage has a scent - I'll have to give it a sniff tomorrow. I like your description of the Witchhazel flowers! I never noticed whether my Calycanthus foliage has a scent – I’ll have to give it a sniff tomorrow.

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