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Flowering plum

BySteve May 6, 2008May 6, 2008

My Krauter Vesuvius flowering plum tree hit peak bloom last week, and the blossoms are pretty well fallen off now. Here are two photos from last week on April 29th, when it was probably right at its peak:

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Killing bindweed or wild morning glory

BySteve March 29, 2006March 29, 2006

I just came across an informative thread on bindweed at GardenWeb.com. It’s at: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rmgard/msg0510060716313.html?66 I get some bindweed in my garden, and in some places it’s a serious nuisance. It would be nice to find a website that has photos of all the weeds that grow in our area and how to fight them.

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Featured in Utah Valley Magazine

BySteve March 3, 2008February 23, 2015

I mentioned in my previous post about the call from Utah Valley Magazine. The article just went online and you can see it here. It’s fun to see my kids in the center of the spread — a cute photo of them after picking some apples. There’s also an article on the following two pages…

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Native maples

BySteve January 2, 2006January 24, 2006

One of my garden projects this winter is chilling some bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum) seeds outside to see if they’ll sprout in the spring. I collected the seeds in the fall from a grove that had some really awesome red leaves. In fact, here’s a photo of me and Dana (my lovely wife) at that…

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Autumn Blaze Maples

BySteve July 9, 2007July 9, 2007

I’ve had a little trouble with my ‘Autumn Blaze’ maples. The one on the left above had chlorosis pretty bad last year, and it even lost most of its leaves in August only to grow back young leaves in September that got killed by fall frosts while still tender. I worried that it might not…

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Some things blooming and looking good this time of year

BySteve August 4, 2007August 4, 2007

Here are some of the plants that have been looking good in my yard this time of year: So, starting from the top left, we have: A big clump of annual Rudbeckia, one of my favorite annuals Dianthus ‘Brilliancy’ which I grew from seed this year A wave petunia that I waited too long to…

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Seeds are growing!

BySteve March 12, 2007

On the weekend, I transferred all the sprouting seeds to their growing cells, which are either Jiffy pellets (a peat product with a thin mesh around each) or little six-packs with Jiffy planting mix (pretty much just peat, too, I think). Here are the seeds that are sprouting and are planted: Geraniums – 100% germination…

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