Owner: Lady Greenthumb's garden URL:http://ceanothus.blogspot.com Join Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:00:19 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Diary of a continental garden in Croatia, South Central Europe. Daily dose of pixels, garden tales, travel stories and my humble musings on life Site statistics:Click here
Back to the Future 2008-09-11 11:57:01 Hi all, back and out of the doldrums. Hopefully you've all been overly productive both in your offline & online gardens. I'm about to recompensate my absenteeism but first I've got to share this effusion of sentiments and pixels from my latest Homeric crusade... (raised eyebrows and grumbling welcome as usual !)Once again, try to put behind my unreasonably long and never-ending recitals when i Read more:Future
Holidays 2008-09-06 16:31:45 Well, it's finally time for some relaxing and Ouzo. My green thumbs are off to Kefalonia, Greece to recharge their chlorophyll and restore the mental balance which they have lacked so evidently during these awful, scorching summer days. Days of cursing at fallen magnolia leaves and the stenching pond beneath are behind us. The only hard thing is having to part with our garden and the crew, and lea Read more:Holidays
Garden walk ... 2008-08-04 15:39:13 Hibiscus syriacusLagerstroemia indicaIt's that time of the year! My crape myrtle is blooming. Crape myrtles are not very common in my area as they don't do well in this continental ambient. Not hardy enough, I was told. Mine lives in a protected south corner of the garden, wears a winter coat and few layers of soil and compost and has survived 3 winters so far. For a low maintenance that it demand Read more:Garden
Magnolia disease 2008-07-14 13:05:47 Many shade trees are prone to one or more fungi that cause scattered, rather definite, round to oval or irregular spots on the leaves. The symptoms usually occur from late June through August.Few spots on the leaves here and there do little or no significant harm to the tree and are far more unsightly than perilous. Nevertheless, leaf spots that start early in the growing season usually lead to pr Read more:disease
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SAVING GRACE - SURPRISE PLANT 2008-07-13 09:40:19 Surely there isn't a gardener who doesn't, from time to time witness a mysterious surprise plant on their premises. Whether it's the wind, the chopper seeds, the birdies, or any of the many garden monkeys, it stuns you when you bump into something that is not a product of your prolific green thumb, even if it's the most insignificant, misplaced weed. However there's one plant I surely wasn't expec
Tagged again 2008-07-12 16:10:25 I thought one day or the other the GTA disease would strike back at me. Only a while ago, I was one of the many victims of the tagging plague. I boldly tried to fight back and key out the main symptoms. Little did it help, for the next thing you know, I was already spilling the beans. That was back in March. This time the plague had disguised itself as the hilarious lady Irena of My Roots Run De Read more:Tagged
Happy Paws bounce back 2008-07-12 08:36:49 Days of apathy and anemia are long gone. Maleni is back to his usual 'higglety-pigglety' self, it's so good to see his 'wild spirit' back. He had a week of 'controlled rest' period to restore his youthful energy and he couldn't wait to run free through the backyard and do a little sprinkle here and there and alter any territorial changes Bobby might have made while he was recuperating. He wishes t Read more:Happy
Happy Paws are bedridden 2008-07-03 10:48:43 TICK FEVERWe've had quite a scare! Yesterday afternoon I noticed something was wrong with my dearest happy paws, Maleni. All of a sudden, he just refused to eat and was lethargic, actually quite lethargic for a dog of his wild temper and energy. He seemed so sad all afternoon but then we went for a walk and he was his usual fidgety self. So this morning we went to see his vet and the worst of my f Read more:Happy
Garden crew - Gods and dogs 2008-06-29 16:13:09 Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. - W. L. George--> Krusty, Kristy and mummyYou have already met the Gods, now it's time to meet the Dogs. "He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that Read more:Garden
You'll never blog alone ! 2008-06-29 13:47:56 Apart from being an eternal garden captive, I also, strangely enough, have many more human flaws; one of them is football being the second most important thing in the world, after gardening of course. And the national team is the holy of the holies. Some folks regard it as 'back to wilderness', as football is a primitive game and its supporters primeval. All fine, I'm still proud to be primitive. Read more:alone
''Arte y pico'' award 2008-06-25 01:15:00 A few days ago I got this lovely award from Brenda of the brilliant Brendablog. 'Arte y pico' is the name. It translates as something like 'peak of art' or 'art and creativity. I will certainly not try to judge your choice Brenda :-)If, by some strange reason, you're not familiar with Brenda's blog, do yourselves a favor and knock on the door of her intriguing world: apart from a vast variety of g
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - June '08 2008-06-15 13:38:48 Thanks to Carol of May Dreams Garden
s, I'm delighted to both share and enjoy the blooms from all over the world. If you want to join in this extraordinary feature hosted by Carol, all you gotta do is simply create a GBBD post of your own on the 15th of the month and then post a comment on May Dreams gardensAt last, I remembered on time this month! All due to the fact that I have paid my brain bil Read more:Bloom
Hortensias 2008-06-13 09:50:15 While the greater number of H.macrophylla cultivars are raised to be forced as early flowering pot plants, they remain a very popular garden plant and many of the forced specimens are planted outside, when they have finished flowering. Suburban front gardens abound with them and they produce annually masses of bold flower heads. They are also called garden hortensias (Hortensias were named in hono
Cherry pickin' time ! 2008-06-12 14:56:15 Sweet and sour cherry trees, alongside plum trees, are the most frequent fruit trees in my garden. One of them, an over 50-yrs old cherry tree is also the biggest tree in the garden. Even though it's too high to be harvested, it presents a continuous tree of delights for all sorts of birdies all through the late spring. The spring blossom of that one does the trick for me. Some neighbours suggeste Read more:Cherry
Perennial border 2008-06-11 13:17:05 Those of you who have visited my blog in the past may remember the before&after posts about the different states and looks of my garden. In case you didn't, well, here's a reminder.My dream was to create at least one perennial border around the edges of the front fence, and using the lawn as the foreground. I believe this year, in spite of all the slug damage, it is finally starting to get the
''Sluggish'' encounters 2008-06-10 08:08:34 '' Rain, rain go away, come again some other day ...''This week has been a favorable one for slugs (and slug picking). You'd think ' What is she on about?' It's hardly been a month since I moaned about how dry our spring was and how walking around with a hose was a daily routine. Well, just for that, someone up there has decided to pick on yet another gardener and send down oodles of rain, thunder
Garden visitors 2008-06-06 03:22:41 I can't really think of anyone or anything I'd love to see more of in my garden than hedgehogs. When I was a kid, there were two families living in the far back of the garden and they used to come and help themselves with all the cat food, milk and dog food leftovers we have 'accidentally' been hiding away from cats and dogs ;-). Even though they are nocturnal animals, they would come during the d Read more:Garden
La Vie En Rose 2008-05-25 09:50:20 Sometimes I feel like the most uncaring gardener. I go past them every day, so many times a day, and yet I barely notice them. What shall I plant next? What shall I prune next? Weed picking? Lawn mowing? Watering? Fertilizing? Mulching? A perpetual mixture of garden tasks but yet, no time for roses. Hardly ever a moment in time to stop by and honour their beauty and fragrance. Sometimes maybe. N
Sunday blooms 2008-05-25 09:25:28 Clematis 'President' and then someSpiraea 'Golden Princess'Cistus Ladanifer & Geranium sanguineum striatumNepeta faassenii (Catmint)Kniphophia & Lupinus getting ready to bloomand my constant obsession with Smokebush leaves and raindrops Read more:Sunday
Spring impressions 2008-05-21 10:28:00 Clematis 'The President'One of the first 'climbing lianas' to flower in my garden... I have inherited a beautiful old fashioned Clematis from my grandma but it's a summer-flowering one. And these early ones are all a couple of years old, I have misplaced most of their ID cards and forgot their names, so you'll just have to put up with my ignorance ;-)Clematis 'Warsaw Nike'Weigela 'Evita'Digitalis Read more:Spring
Floating pond plants 2008-05-20 04:16:00 No matter how enchanting they may look, even the most captivating floating plants are prone to invasive proportions. Luckily, I don't have that problem as my two ponds actually hardly fit into pond proportions, and the second one is more of a puddle. I have envisioned a proper pond in the back yard as a thing to do sometime in the future but so far it has merely remained a vision.Apart from the mi Read more:Floating
Spring video 2008-05-20 02:58:12 Did a little bit of buzzing around with the camcorder recently...so take a little spring walk with me! Read more:Spring
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A spring storm 2008-05-12 15:58:19 They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think Charles Dickens and his outstanding imagery are just about half way there, at least...''A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed
ECHIUM at last ! 2008-05-10 16:24:49 I have longed for this plant for quite some time. I have never succeeded with germinating the seeds (ok, I tried once only and maybe the seeds were not that good :-) Recently I stumbled upon this stunning plant again on Gintoino's lovely Portuguese garden blog 'Jardim com gatos'. You can see why he calls them the Pride of his garden (rather than Pride of Madeira, one of the plant's common names).
Euphoric about Euphorbia 2008-10-05 02:38:49 A TASTE OF THE UNUSUALIt is no secret that the majority of people get attracted to plants whose colorful display of strikingly wonderful blooms just can't go unnoticed. Being yet another odd person, I always loved to go astray and find delight in all those neglected, out-of-the-ordinary specimens which were doing their best to draw someone's attention, but were obviously poorly informed on the cu Read more:Euphoric
Joys and Woes 2008-09-28 15:30:48 Week 1: DAYDREAMINGNo matter how beautiful a place could be, no matter how overwhelmed it should leave you, how could a gardener resist not being nostalgic? I get homesick just thinking how flattened my lawn will be after being neglected and scarcely watered while I'm away. And how brilliant the sight of all the new treats nature has planted while you've been away. The first thing that caught my e
Travelogue: Quest for Ithaka 2008-09-21 13:56:02 Thanks to my good blogger friend Jackie of Visions of Kefalonia who also happens to be an extraordinary guide and a true credit to her profession, during my Kefalonian spell, I was voluntarily sweet-talked into visiting the homeland of the epic hero Odysseus (Ulysses), the neighboring island of Ithaka (Ithaca, Ithaki)...Though only divided by a channel, at the first glance, not much to catch your Read more:Quest
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Ghosting it forward ... 2008-10-23 13:42:37 The charming lady Ewa of Ewa in the Garden has tagged me for a game of Ghosting It Forward in which the rules are:1) Have a Ghostly Image to pass along.2) Tag three people on your blog, with links to their blogs. Tell about what great folks they are, or offer to send them a Ghostly Treat.3) Include a link to Ghosting It Forward in your blog.The Spirits are about to speak!Now, if you have read my p
Gossamer trails: Zagreb 2008-10-21 03:36:29 "I cannot endure to waste anything as preciousas autumn sunshine by staying in the house.So I spend almost all the daylight hoursin the open air.- Nathaniel HawthorneThe long, hot summer is now long gone, and the autumn, 'the artist's muse', has entered the city through the main gate. I figured it would be about time to share with you a walk through my beloved home town, Zagreb. The laziness that Read more:trails
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