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This pretty tree flowers about a month after most trees start. After the hyacinths, weeping cherries and magnolias. We don't really know what it is. Could it be crabapple? Any ideas welcome.</div>
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<br />Margaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912301240111401274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592358752476583270.post-79715508559963217922012-04-21T14:34:00.001-07:002012-04-22T04:50:59.612-07:00Garden school<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today at gardening design class (an MSU extension class), the instructor bought a bunch of plants that he asked us to arrange into a garden - using the concepts he is teaching.<br />
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He split the class in two and each team was to work on its own design and garden.
We got three different color coral bells (chartreuse, dark chocolate and rusty brown), white astilbe, two different kinds of hostas, red geraniums, purple pansies, zebra grass, and day lilies.<br />
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Our group stuck the tall ones - astilbe and zebra grass - in each corner and worked the coral bells and hostas into the center and the annuals out front. The lilies were the center piece. The garden was kind of v-shaped.
The other team did the exact opposite - the taller plants in the middle and worked downwards to the sides - sort of like an upside down V or a pyramid.<br />
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It's funny to see peoples' personalities come out in a group. I wanted to stick the "like" annuals into bunches. The group won out and scattered them. One guy, a self-proclaimed grass lover, wanted the zebra grass more towards the middle so it didn't overtake the side of the garden. The group over-rode him, too. One guy said the exercise felt like having nine wives. I kind of felt the same way but backwards. Like having nine husbands.<br />
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It was a fun exercise. The best part was when the instructor gave us feedback on each plan, moved around some plants and made everything look better.<br />
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It's only the second class of five. I'm loving it so far.<br />
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Frosty strip<br />
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I'm obsessed with these blue cutsies<br />
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Can you guess what's growing here?<br />
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Nothing beats dessert blooms.<br />
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I got my <a href="http://www.dragonflypeonyfarm.com/store/assets/Susie_Q.jpg">Suzie Q</a> and my <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEVAmqDIHlbflcGbSuv7l8R73_N8BWz9Uri2M4xSz65cvbKymPQya0vvYxhdggx_CeDnVb2j2SCpiWfJ-peLzH2PARXtNVMWN5iLhSsXUxtx73ay6kef7i7BXI0XYkh9kyWlSCov6wUA/s1600/felix.jpg">Felix Supreme</a> in the mail this weekend and just planted them today. <br />
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Here are some photos of the bare roots and what they looked like. It's amazing to me that next spring there will be plants sticking out of the ground!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51879693@N02/4794224944/" title="Garden Fence with Pink Rose by Canton Fence, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4794224944_bccb9cbbf8.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="Garden Fence with Pink Rose"></a><br />
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So when I go on my walks these days, part of what I'm looking at is what people put next to what. Do you know that there are whole books dedicated to this subject? One guy wrote a whole <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Clematis-John-Howells/dp/1870673190">book</a> about pairing climbing roses and clematis!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=rose+and+clematis&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=675">Here's</a> what those combinations look like. And:<br />
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My MIL is really good at this. This year, there was a ton of blue and purple in her yard. Blue hydrangeas with blue delphinium nearby, sprinkled in between hostas. So pretty.Margaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912301240111401274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592358752476583270.post-26254666324399930842011-10-03T22:32:00.000-07:002011-10-04T03:45:37.036-07:00Fall color<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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