Flowers 2018

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This picture is more about what was hunting among the flowers in a giant basil bush, than the flowers. Earlier, when I was checking on tomato plants, the basils were absolutely covered in bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, and various little colorful flies. When I checked back later, this Green Lynx Spider had snagged a bumblebee for dinner. I'm pretty sure that a Wren relieved him of his bee during the evening hours, though.
 

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What wouldn't we keep for flowers? My big chain store bougie, or two?
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This funny dwarf pomegranate left to grow is gonna explode with flowers.
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... removing fruit...
 
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Posting this fuchsia again. This year allowed to grow free, I noticed one interesting thing. The flowers are reduced in size significantly (at least by 1/3) comparing it to one I brought home this spring from the same source. Reason? Pot grown, number of flowers or both, who knows.
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No, I didn't, mostly because there has been some family drama going on and I was expecting to have to travel during the time the fair was on. I did end up being a volunteer babysitter for the exhibit one night. Having a better sense of things, I'm thinking of several possibilities for next year. The aforementioned kogetsu is a beautiful, lyrically curvy tree, and it's in a gorgeous Chuck Iker pot that is perfectly suited to it. I may also get something nice out of some Japanese quince I'm working on, one of which looks like it could be a killer semi-cascade in the right pot. I also have some oddball stuff that might show well, a ninebark for example. We shall see. Did you get to the fair at all to see the trees?
 

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No, I didn't, mostly because there has been some family drama going on and I was expecting to have to travel during the time the fair was on. I did end up being a volunteer babysitter for the exhibit one night. Having a better sense of things, I'm thinking of several possibilities for next year. The aforementioned kogetsu is a beautiful, lyrically curvy tree, and it's in a gorgeous Chuck Iker pot that is perfectly suited to it. I may also get something nice out of some Japanese quince I'm working on, one of which looks like it could be a killer semi-cascade in the right pot. I also have some oddball stuff that might show well, a ninebark for example. We shall see. Did you get to the fair at all to see the trees?

No I have been "trapped" at the blueberry farm in Michigan. I'm there right now working on the farm. It is time to do the post harvest fertilizing of the blueberries.
 
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