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Feb 24, 2024 9:59 AM CST
Northern NJ (Zone 7a)
Thanks, Mike. Hope he figures it out.
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Feb 25, 2024 11:14 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
As per Vic and Loretta, thanks, Mike!
Was wondering about Arturo.
Happy to hear that at least it's nothing about health.
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Apr 11, 2024 10:13 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Now getting some really nice days.
An early primula:
Came from Merlin's Hollow, now abandoned for construction.
Looks like the native English primrose.
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Apr 12, 2024 5:36 AM CST
Name: Terri
Lucketts, VA (Zone 7a)
Region: Mid-Atlantic Region: Virginia Dog Lover Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Deer Ponds
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Charlie, so nice to see the new gardening season startup up for you! Love primulas.
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Apr 12, 2024 6:27 AM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
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Beautiful blooms Charlie and good to see you. I'm so thankful you have plants from Merlin's Hollow.
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Apr 12, 2024 4:08 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Me too, Terri

Thanks, Vic.
Merlin's Hollow really was something.
David
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Now getting lots of hellebore bloom in sunnier loacations.
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Apr 12, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
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Beautiful hellebores Charlie and I'm so thankful you have plants from Merlin's Hollow.
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Apr 13, 2024 9:01 PM CST
Name: Mike
Hazel Crest, IL (Zone 6a)
"Have no patience for bare ground"
Welcome back from hibernation nodding Charlie Hurray!
Your garden is waking up in abundance. Hurray! Hurray!
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Apr 14, 2024 11:14 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Thanks, Mike.
Looks like your garden is well ahead of ours.
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Apr 18, 2024 1:34 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Today:
Hellebores:
'Glenda's Glos'
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'Paris in Pink'
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Another 'Paris in Pink'
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'Anna's Red'
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Bought as Helleborus caucasus
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Gradually, more primulas beginning to bloom.
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Apr 18, 2024 4:56 PM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
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Beautiful Charlie Green Grin! Hurray!
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Apr 18, 2024 10:18 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Thanks, Vic.
Working among the iris in the front.
Sent a good few dandelions on their way.
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Apr 19, 2024 3:32 AM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Can't wait to see your iris - lol on the dandelions Green Grin!
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Apr 20, 2024 10:51 PM CST
Name: Mike
Hazel Crest, IL (Zone 6a)
"Have no patience for bare ground"
Loving your variety Charlie!! I have been evicting dandelions left and right by the bag full. Trying something new this year on the lawn and spot treatment of Bindweed that pop up here and there.
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Apr 21, 2024 5:14 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Charlie
Aurora, Ontario (Zone 5b)
Maintenance of Perennial Beds.
Thanks, Mike; your's too.

Good luck with the bindweed.
Fortunately only had it in one of my gardens; dug it out there each year, but never succeeded in its elimination. Customer eventually moved.

Mike, I really like your blue hyacinths: the colour seems to go so well with so many spring flower colours And the hyacinths have the added advantage of being poisonous (viz. critter proof).

Pictures: Front today:
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The single bloodroot seems to run along the edges of the bed. Closes on dark days.
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Was digging up and replanting dwarf irises here to eliminate the dandelions.

Back:
double bloodroot
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I've almost had it with smaller hellebore plants whose flowers won't face the camera (viz. nodders).
'North Star'
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For me, if there's a whole lot of plant and a big block of colour, that's OK.
This was mislabelled (maybe a reversion).
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Loved this little lavender double primrose at Merlin's Hollow. Thought it was all gone by the time I got there. Know this is the kind of humble, though tough, little survivor which David himself would have favoured. Gardens do die with their gardener. But hopefully ones favourite old cultivars can live on, still loved, in the gardens of others.
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The lungworts haven't really started flowering yet. It's quite a challenge to keep lungwort cultivars separate. They are hybridized so easily by the bumblebees. I usually pull all the new seedlings out, but missed this light blue flowering one. The blue may have come from the vintage cultivar, 'Regal Ruffles', close by.
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Apr 21, 2024 5:21 PM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Beautiful blooms with joyful colors - makes me smile Charlie - Thank You Thumbs up
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Apr 21, 2024 8:29 PM CST
Northern NJ (Zone 7a)
Gorgeous, Charlie! That primrose is adorable!
This year, I tried using a mirror for the hellebores. Maybe that's cheating but it was so much easier.
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Apr 21, 2024 9:42 PM CST
Name: Mike
Hazel Crest, IL (Zone 6a)
"Have no patience for bare ground"
Looks like a photograph laying on the ground.
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"Life as short as it

























is, is amazing, isn't it. MichaelBurton

"Be your best you".
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Apr 22, 2024 5:22 AM CST
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Beautiful shot Loretta - and a very clever idea Thumbs up
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Apr 22, 2024 9:35 AM CST
Name: Terri
Lucketts, VA (Zone 7a)
Region: Mid-Atlantic Region: Virginia Dog Lover Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Deer Ponds
Foliage Fan Ferns Hellebores Irises Peonies Amaryllis
Charlie, I love that little primrose!

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