Category: plant photo
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Double duty bokashi composting
I have share a little garden update success. I’ve been doing bokashi composting (rapid composting) for a little while now and developed a routine that I thought I would share. Bokashi is a method of composting that is basically fermenting kitchen waste with a mixture called EM-1 and then burying it in the ground to…
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Our Christmas tradition
Each year we decorate our friesian horses on Christmas Eve and cover them with sleigh bells so we can hear them jingle all through out Christmas day.
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Rim lighting
While taking a break at work today I took my new camera on a little walk down the halls. In front of me I saw a student with a marvelous glow around his body. Within a second he moved and it was gone but for moment I was able to capture it.
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I have an oak!
I just discovered a volunteer oak in my garden! It’s growing in an old raised plant bed I had which would be the perfect spot for an oak except I have chicken wire underneath to stop the gophers coming from underneath. I am afraid that if I let it be the roots will get strangled…
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In bloom today
I just noticed that my loropetalum was in bloom today. I actually didn’t know it had flowers. I posted an earlier entry of when I bought it. Not the prettiest flower but nice to have as an accent. I took this photo with a Nikon D200, 70-200 2.8 VR lens and some extension tubes that…
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Bought a 1 gallon pot of Myoporum
I got a coupon for Edan Plains Nursery and got this plant for free. I put it in a hanging basket in the Veggie garden. It says it can be used as a lawn because it’s a good ground cover but I like how it seems to hang so I thought basket would be best.…
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Rock Rose
I bought this plant at Home Depot a while back and had no clue it would create such a beautiful flower. I almost didn’t put it in the ground because the leaves aren’t that pretty but the flower sure it. My photo club friend just ID’d it. Here is his picture of his flower that…