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My first pond flower!
I took my laptop down to my garden to work on some web pages. I like to sit there so that the scenery isn’t always the same old office set up. I love being surprised by my garden. As I walked by my bathtub pond I saw something bobbing in the water under the waterfall…
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Panoramas of my garden with the iPhone
I shot these today with the pano application for the iPhone. It made the floor broken but otherwise I was pretty impressed!
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Teeny weeny tomatoes
Gosh these are so cute! Literally handfulls of tomatoes 🙂 These are red current tomatoes and are indeterminate. It took me a little while to pick all these and there are literally hundreds more on the plant. Besides being incredibly small they are really sweet in flavor. I think they would be great in salads…
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Rosehips
Going to collect some rosehips today and hopefully make some rosehip tea when they dry. http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/articles-submit/michael-brooks/rose-hips.htm Whoopsie! Guess I didn’t read the article well enough above as to when I should harvest. Oh well there are a few still left on the plant to turn from green to red (blush) http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-garden/2009/06/deadheading-plants.html
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Little trees
Just took this photo with my new iphone. I love its selective focus and macro capabilities. Makes it so much easier to share a quick picture. In addition to just taking this snapshot with the iPhone I played around with the image with a few of the iPhone apps. Most notably one called color splash.…
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Peacock in my garden
Well he thinks he owns it and I am only allowed to enter if he happens to feel like letting me in. Here he is perched on the door to my fern house. Love to see them with their tails hanging down like that.
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HarvestedaFoxtails
I harvested A bunch of early girl tomatoes Summer squash a cucumber and some peppermint and watercress for another salad. My dogs harvested: Foxtails 🙁