An amazing view of something we can only see via time-lapse. Enjoy!
Spring – HD Time Lapse Footage of Flowering Trees from HDtimelapse.net on Vimeo.
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Time lapse of flowering trees such wild apple tree, apricot tree, cherry tree, japanese cherry tree, apple tree, pear tree.
Source: Nikon D700 & Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Music: Felix Mendelssohn – Spring Song (fragment)
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Thomas Lewalski was the randomly chosen winner of the Troy-Bilt TB4HB EC gas leaf blower in the contest that ended on Christmas Day.
We have contacted Thomas and sent his information on to Troy-Bilt so they can send him his leaf blower.
I love being able to give away equipment like this. Watch the blog, Facebook and Twitter pages for more giveaways in the future.
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This post is part of my association with Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 program. All opinions are my own.
When Halloween finished up in October, I took the advice in this Pinterest post about growing pumpkins from your old jack-o-lanterns.
Source: growinginprek.com via Douglas on Pinterest
The Christmas deer below stands on top of what was, only a few weeks ago, a large pine tree. It, and another on the property, were infected with beetle so we had them removed for both decorative and safety reasons. The tree company took down the tree and also ground out the stump. This left a large “hump” of wood chips in this area. I saw this as an opportunity to try out this pumpkin idea on a larger scale.
I dug a sizable hole in the pile of wood chip and filled it halfway or so with compost from our bins. I then threw in our pumpkin, which as already quite soft and gooey. It broke open a little, but I chopped it up with the shovel and then put some more compost over the top. A bit of the wood chip was added as a mulch and I was done. The whole process only took about 10 minutes and figured it was worth a try.
Sure enough, last week, my wife came in from doing some watering to inform me that the pumpkins were coming up in that area .You can just barely see the green leaves at the front foot of the Christmas deer in the picture below.
Here is a closer picture of the leaves.
I have no idea if these plants will actually produce pumpkins, but we will water them and give them a little TLC and see what happens in the coming months.
My wife, Rosanne, has greatly wanted a new garden bed to grow some food products. Since this is a good time to be starting (ok, maybe a little late) cold weather crops like kale and such, this morning we brought out the electric cultivator and turned an old rose bed into the new food bed. I will have a couple posts about this in the coming days, but here is the first picture of the freshly turned bed. The little Troy-Bilt electric cultivator always amazes me with its effectiveness. You wouldn’t think something so small could turn the soil so well.
We had one broken sprinkler head about half way up, but luckily I was ale to fix it with some parts I had around the shed. The entire front yard is made of roses, azaleas and other plantings, so the lawn sprinklers were put up on risers to retrofit them to water this area. As you can probably see, though, I converted this bed to use a soaker hose when we first moved in and that will be the primary source of water for anything we grow in this bed.
As a small start to this new bed, I plopped in a basil plant that had been struggling in its pot. Hopefully it will find this area much more to its liking.
This post mentions previous material written under my association with Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 program. All opinions are my own.
Here are a few more pictures of my paperwhites — this time in the sun — for a slightly better view.
I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events, and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.
Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.”
If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox. My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services.
This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations. Maybe, though, you are only interested in my gardening information. You can narrow your reading to my gardening blog or Facebook page. The same applies for careers, technology and my organizations. Select whatever is most interesting, and valuable, to you.
Thank you for supporting me, my blogs and podcasts and my organization of the years! I look forward to talking with you — and sharing more with you — in 2012.
Everyone knows that the dark days of Winter is when gardeners turn to gardening and seed catalogs to fill their gardening fantasies.
How about sharing your favorite catalogs with the readers of A Gardener’s Notebook?
Leave a comment on this post with a link to your favorite catalog and where people might order their own copy. Web catalogs work well, too, so link them up, too.
I look forward to seeing the wealth of information, products and shear, unadulterated, garden fantasies you know. Send them along quick so everyone can get the benefit of them before Winter ends.
The bulbs have been up and growing for a couple of weeks now, but today is when I saw the first paperwhite flowers appear. Our Southern California Spring starts as soon as the rains come, so most of our bulbs are growing right now. Looking at my calendar, it looks like we are about a week to a week and a half later this year than last.
I came across this site via a post on Pinterest.com — a great place to find new ideas.
SproutRobot.com allows you to enter your zip code and then receive info on what can be planted now in your are and how to do it. Great way to get some timely reminders of what you could be doing in your garden right now.
Happy Holidays from Troy-Bilt and A Gardener’s Notebook!
As part of my involvement in Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 program, we are offering this giveaway to bring another bright spot into for holiday celebrations. Enter the contest using the form below. You need only leave a blog comment to enter, but you can gain another entry into the giveaway by joining the Gardener’s Notebook mailing list.This is a low volume mailing list that keeps you informed of the great content, reviews and events here on A Gardener’s Notebook.
Win a Troy-Bilt TB4HB EC gas leaf blower – $179.99 value
Description from the Troy-Bilt web site…
Clean up fall leaves quickly and easily with Troy-Bilt’s TB4HB EC. Or use this powerful, electric start capable blower in the spring and summer for all-purpose clean-up of yard debris, dust and dirt on decks, sidewalks, etc. The TB4HB EC features a 25cc, 4-Cycle engine with up to 150mph airflow velocity.
This giveaway ends on December 26, 2011 at 12:01 am EST. US Mailing Addresses only, please. Giveaway winner will be required to provide US Mailing Address for direct delivery from Troy-Bilt.
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