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Garden Update: Cherries and Hydrangeas

Cherries and hydrangeas are starting to look real good. Real good. Blue!   Related posts: Update on the Garden: Hydrangeas, Hyssop, Dianthus, Bees and More Garden Update: Hydrangeas, Cherries Garden Update: New Hydrangeas Garden Update: Cherries! Peonies! Currants!

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Garden Update: Blueberries and Hydrangeas

The flowers and fruits are coming in! Related posts: Update on the Garden: Hydrangeas, Hyssop, Dianthus, Bees and More Garden Update: Blueberries, Apricots, Daisies Garden Update: Hydrangeas, Cherries Garden Update: Coneflowers, Cosmos, Blackberries and Butterfly Bushes

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Spring Garden at Sour Cherry Farm

Happy spring! The bulbs we planted last fall have really turned out great. And today, it was warm enough to plant a few pots, too. Here’s a look around the garden. An overview from the stair landing on the second […]

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Garden Update: Cherries! Peonies! Currants!

A strange season this year, indeed. Cherries are ripening way early — two weeks, by some accounts — and yet, peonies, for some reason, stayed blooming later than ever. Here’s an update of what’s ripening and blooming in the fields. […]

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Hydrangea Watch!

To borrow a phrase from the farm’s longtime friend Diane (aka DC Fruit Bat), we are on a hydrangea watch. And it looks like we might be getting some blue flowers this year. This is the hydrangea was planted in 2014. […]

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Garden Update: Cosmos, Hydrangea

In early September, a few beautiful flowers (and a few we’re saying a little prayer for, too). Cosmos: Our variagated hydrangea is now 2 years old. I htink next spring we’ll leave the annuals out of the way and let it […]

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How to Transplant a 10-Year-Old Hydrangea

When it comes to transplanting a 10-year-old hydrangea, I will tell you this: It’s a bitch. The roots are not deep, but they’re in tight. And after the winter we had, the hydrangea was already in bad shape. Still, I’ll […]

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Snowstorm at the Farm

With these photos, I bring you a rare look at behind the scenes, the inner workings of Sour Cherry Farm. I take you …. dum, dum dum!…. behind the garage! Hunna is loading wood for the log hoop on the […]

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The Garden at Dusk

A few photos of the view we have while sipping rosé in Adirondack chairs. Cosmos and fig tree:   Pink phlox: More cosmos: This section of the garden needs  a bit of help. Cosmos, our new hydrangea, lemon verbena, sage, […]

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The Farm Gets New Plants

Patio project complete, it’s time to get planting! We’re looking to make the patio feel cozy, and also to block the late summer’s brutal sun, which shines directly on the patio as it’s setting. A tree, then — sour cherry, […]

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Calm Before the Storm

On Sunday morning after Christmas, we went to a yoga class, and were planning to set a record by going to the lake four days in a row. But the snow started falling. And it wouldn’t stop for 24 hours. […]