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Peonies!

Looking great! Related posts: Garden Update: Cherries! Peonies! Currants! Peonies at the Farm How to Float Peonies Garden Update: Columbine, Peonies, Bees!

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Peonies for Work

A bouquet of peonies to brighten the newsroom. Related posts: How to Float Peonies Peonies at the Farm Beautiful Food Photos and Flowers Garden Update: Columbine, Peonies, Bees!

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Garden Update: Columbine, Peonies, Bees!

That columbine loves to reseed, doesn’t it? It’s loving where it lives near the pear tree. A little more over here by the driveway, too. And here’s where we moved our split. Since I am writing this post much later, […]

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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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Garden Problems and Solutions: A Guide

After focusing so long on the patio and the gardens surrounding it, it’s time to turn our attention to other areas of the farm. We’ve been experimenting here and there, but in spring 2015, we will take what we’ve learned from […]

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How to Float Peonies

I was lucky enough this year to save my blooming peonies before the first heavy rainfall. Because I didn’t thin the blossoms, many of the cut flowers had a very small stem. For those, I found a low, wide serving […]

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Garden Update: Ninebark, Hydrangea, Patio

  It’s a weekend of garden work at the farm! We’re planting, weeding and mulching, plus taming a couple of big-assed flowering quinces that have gotten so out of control that I missed seeing our lilac bloom through them! The […]

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Peonies at the Farm

The peonies were a whole week early this year, and, as always seems to happen, just as they were blooming, a big storm was on its way. So I picked what I could and brought them into the house. They’re […]