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The first snow this winter
After a couple of days of frost and white frost, today we got the first snow this winter season. Nothing much, but still. This mostly implies that there will be little to no garden activity. Related:...
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Winter in Tsubo-en, an impression
For sure winter has come in November-December. It started very early this year and continues for weeks already. For weeks it has been freezing and we where still in 2010 ! Below we show a more or...
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Abundant bloom of our Wisteria sinensis
In last years post Wisteria sinensis in bloom I wrote about the differences in the flowering over the years. 2010 was an extremely poor year. Last year we counted only about 100 pendulous racemes with...
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Iris “White Knight” (Tall Bearded Iris) in bloom
In the first week in May the first flower of the Iris “White Knight”, Tall Bearded Iris was fully open. We now have three flowers and count already over fourty flower buds. The only Iris in the garden...
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Late winter or no winter 2011/2012
So far we have not seen any real winter weather. It is more like an extremely long autum. Last week we had the very first frost of this season on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17nd of January 2012. This is...
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Tracks in the snow
After an extreme delay the winter has now commenced. Last week we got about 20 cm (8 inch) snow. We also had the pleasure to be the coldest spot in the country with -22,9 °C (-9.2F). It’s exciting to...
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Frost damage, to survive or to die ?
As mentioned in my earlier post Tracks in the snow we had an unusual winter with extreme frost. This is the first time ever that we have substantial frost damage. Although we have previously had these...
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Frost damage 2011/2012, final damage report
As I already wrote in Frost damage, to survive or to die ? for the first time in the life of Tsubo-en we have major frost damage. Now in June we can draw conclusions. Although most of our Prunus...
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Resurrection of our Wisteria sinensis
In Frost damage 2011/2012, final damage report I wrote about the frost-damage in our garden during the winter 2011/2012 and the subsequent growth and our attempts to give it a second life. This frost...
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Recovery of our solitary Wisteria-sinensis
This frost-damage was particularly sad with regard to our garden pride, the solitary Wisteria-sinensis (see: Resurrection of our Wisteria sinensis). In 2015 we had a very late spring. Temperatures...
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Wisteria sinessis seed pods
Last year (2016) our Wisteria sinessis developed some zeven pods. After all these years we have seen this some three or four times. The pods are very strong and have a beautiful velvety like...
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