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I garden in spurts. Perennials are great because they just keep giving, year after year; it feels like my money and effort are well-spent when I plant them. I’m a bit of a tomato snob and only like the fresh ones from the local farmers’ stands instead of the pitiful variety you find in the grocery store, so they’re in my garden, too.
This morning I found the first little cherry tomatoes on the vine!
It sounds like this is a good year to grow your own. We have four plants - two cherry tomatoes and two regular - but one plant died and needs replaced.
When we moved here nearly three years ago, I transplanted a hydrangea from our old house. The first year it was inadvertently sprayed with a heavy dose of weed killer and last year it was hit by a late frost. These are the first blooms we’ve seen in all that time.
Last year we planted a little gardenia. It’s so small that you have to squat way down on hands and knees to smell the blooms, but I look forward to the day when its perfume will fill the air. We had large gardenia bushes at our house when I was expecting our eight-year-old daughter and the smell was rather overpowering during the queasy stage of early pregnancy.
Lily was too busy to stop and smell the flowers. 
Are both those pictures of the hydrangeas from the same plant, with different colors? They are beautiful! And, I love that shot of your daughter running along the brick wall.
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June 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Beautiful pictures, girl!!! I had a little “catching up” to do so I went back a few posts and saw - THE BEARS!! Okay, please no more ferocious, man-eating animal pictures unless there are bars running right through the picture (so I know that it is in a cage!!) Love you, friend!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
i can’t (never have) gardened…no plants, flowers…nothin’. BUT i love photos of all the pretty flowers and LOVE LOVE LOVE to eat fresh tomatoes straight from the ground!
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June 13th, 2008 at 12:49 am
I like the pictures of the garden, but my favorite is the last one. Something about the little girl walking away just a tad out of focus and the brick wall being so bold in color just caught my eye. Very nice work.
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June 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Dawn….
This is just great! I am a spurting gardner…I do herbs because I can use em’ and most of them don’t die!
I’m so tickled to be your swap sister! This is going to be FUN!!
I’m going to read around a bit more!
Hugs to you!
lori
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June 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I’m SOOOOOO jealous…these photos and your photoshop knowledge…I’m still on page 30 of my Photoshop for dummies….
I’m having a blast tooling around here!
THis IS gonna be fun!!
lori
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