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A few pre-work day shots from my garden...

Don't forget to drop by the Malheur County Fair and see us at our booth in the red barn sometime this week! Have a great day!
~Laura

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'El Desperado' Daylily

I could take so many pictures of beautiful blooms in the nursery right now, 

but this one is really lighting it up today!

Compost Update!

Here is what our pumpkins are looking like 14 days after planting! 

(Worm compost on the left, traditional on the right)

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Bees love echinacea, and so do we! 

I have actually back-planted some of my earlier-blooming, tall perennials (like my delphiniums) with echinacea so that when I cut back the early bloomers, the echinacea can be seen and fill the otherwise colorless void! They are tough and beautiful!

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Miscanthus 'Caberet'

This grass amazes me. It is a zone 6 (we are a solid zone 5), and it comes back year after year and gets HUGE- reaching over 6' (it's only supposed to get 5')! It must love the spot it's in. I give it a 16-16-16 fertilizer a few times per season along with everything else, other than that it gets no special treatment. Because it gets so big, I usually have to fashion some sort of staking system around it to keep it from falling over late in the season. It is such a full grass, though, that you usually can't see the stakes. 

I wish I had such great luck with everything else I planted!

~Laura

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I love walking around in the garden first thing in the morning, coffee in hand, to enjoy the beautiful summer flowers before it gets super hot out! These are a couple I thought were especially pretty this morning...

'Astolat' Delphinium

'David' Phlox

Today I am going to replant some tired pots, replace a boxwood in a new hedge that went in earlier this spring, gather cattails and ditch daisies for indoor arrangements, and plant a 'Sugar n' Spice' Arborvitae to hide electrical/sprinkler gadgetry in the side yard (the very first variety of arb that I actually like)!

~Laura

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I have a love-hate relationship with cyclamen. They were one of those houseplants (along with begonias) that I had to learn through trial and error how best to take care of them. Cyclamen can be tricky, but once you find a spot they like, they will perform with abandon! I have found that they like to be moved to the sunniest spot possible in the winter months, and moved to a bright spot, but without direct sun, when it heats up. They don't like a lot of water, and prefer to be watered from underneath when they do get dry. After you get those details figured out, they are a wonderful and colorful houseplant! You should give one a try!