So when I recently attended the Garden Bloggers Fling I got to meet Carol, the godmother of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. She has a cute illustration of a Victorian woman pushing a lawn mower on her website and, because I am a dolt, my brain filed this away literally. I pictured her as an older woman with flowing gray hair. She wears pantaloons and she carries a wicker basket to collect flowers.
In reality, Carol is a modern woman who wears pants and rocks a blond pixie cut. I tell you this in case you were similarly confused.
And you know what? I just looked at that photo again and it’s not a Victorian woman. It’s like an English woman, maybe turn of the century? It’s a wonder I’m gainfully employed.
Anyway, it’s so bloomy right now! This could take a while.
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| Phacelia viscida |
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| Lonicera brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ |
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| Echium wildpretii |
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| Stipa gigantea |
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| Oxalis oregana |
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| Calamagrostis foliosa |
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| Festuca amethystina ‘Superba’ |
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| Allium schubertii |
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| Syringa patula ‘Miss Kim’ |
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| Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ |
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| Salvia nemerosa ‘Caradonna’ |
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| Stipa gigantea ‘Little Giant’ |
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| Camassia leichtlinii semiplena |
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| Lewisia cotyledon |
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| Lewisia cotyledon ‘White Splendor’ |
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| Rhazya orientalis |
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| Parahebe perfoliata |
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| Dierama pulcherrimum |
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| Phlomis russeliana |
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| Amsonia hubrichtii |
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| Geranium macrorrhizum |
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| Arctostaphylos ‘John Dourley’ |
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| Spiraea betulifolia var. lucida |
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| Fuchsia speciosa |
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| Podophyllum pleianthum |
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| Salvia ‘Skyscraper’ |
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| Ceanothus thyrsiflorus |
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| Cuphea x ‘Strybing Sunset’ |
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| Cerinthe purpurascens |
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| Bletilla striata |
Whew, we made it! Thanks again to our host, Carol, who is neither a Victorian, nor a Dowager Countess, who maintains her idyllic manor with a push mower and a snarky aside.
