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2009

04.01.10 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Chihuly Reimagined at Franklin Park Conservatory

2009 + 2010 + Places

While not getting to all the events we wanted to this Holiday season, we did manage an after Christmas trip to the Franklin Park Conservatory. I have a number of picture posts to make, but the first thing I wanted to highlight was the medley of art glass and botanical beauty that is so well…

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28.12.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Winter Landscape

2009 + snow + winter

After Christmas day rains, we again had snowfall and the ground and trees were trimmed with a confectioners icing of powdered snow. It sifted down and clung to all the branches with little puffs in the crooks and crannies of the shrubs. Since most of that took place in the night hours I took no…

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19.12.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Just A Note

2009 + snow + winter

It snowed over night, and I woke up to the beauty of a world draped and trimmed in fluffy white. My son remarked how much warmer it felt with the snowfall, but we didn’t know why. Turns out Susan Reimer has done some homework on it: Snow actually protects the garden from the cold, and…

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30.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Busy December

2009 + Keeping a Garden Journal

Every season has its busyness, but holiday preparing and plans always seem to compound it for December. The garden waits quietly for me- I still spend some time on it but it moves far down the task list this month. This season there are different birds in the garden, and it can be fun to…

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20.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 7 Comments

Mid November Garden Photos

2009 + autumn + Garden photos

Here are some photos in a plain collage, the only common feature is that they are from my garden and taken after frosts have visited. Now, fun question. Can you guess what the golden leaved shrub is called,(pictured in the top middle and top left photos)? The reason I wonder is [hint] because so often…

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18.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

More November Retrospects

2009

This is the Gardener’s Year in Review…probably the one thing in which we gardening enthusiasts are a step ahead of the rest of the world: review the year in November. I spoke already of some of the successes and failures of 2009, but I have some other things to add. This blog has become a…

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17.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Season’s End

2009 + November + The Garden Effect : Soul + the REAL world

End of November will mean the final end of my growing season. There have been years I plant and do garden work in December and January, but it is a bit of madness really… and I don’t see that in my future at this point. So the end of my garden season, it is. I’m…

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03.11.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Never enough time…

2009 + About Flowers + Garden blogs + Garden photos

But we make time for those things we want to. Just sometimes it is response to others applying pressure and all we want is to get that feeling of pressure off! Well, today let’s just buck that trend, shall we? Do you need to take a little time to savor life today? Here are some…

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30.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

Sad Truths

2009 + autumn + The Garden Effect : Soul

There are many sad truths in life. We find many of them in the garden, contributing to the melancholy way we feel in fall when our natural tendency is to do a retrospective similar to the way we view the timeline of the year at New Year’s. The same transitioning from one season to the…

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26.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Giant Pumpkins

2009 + Vegetable garden

Yesterday I watched, with a mixture of fascination and horror, the PBS documentary “Lords of the Gourd” about the lengths people will go to in growing the most gigantic pumpkin. It isn’t that I couldn’t identify, but that is part of the horror. Gardening is something with hooks. I think it is the combination of…

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