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Old 04-19-2010, 08:35 AM   #196
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Hello, what beautiful pictures!

I'm in London and it's sunny and beautiful here today. My bleeding heart plant is out in the garden.

Here's a photo: and detail:

I love, love, love this plant! Its arrival always heralds the start of spring.
What a lovely and inviting garden! Congrats!
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Hello, what beautiful pictures!

I'm in London and it's sunny and beautiful here today. My bleeding heart plant is out in the garden.

I love, love, love this plant! Its arrival always heralds the start of spring.
Very nice Helen, it looks very tropical, quite unlike the frost on the ground here this morning.
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Old 04-19-2010, 12:26 PM   #198
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We don't have a garden since we live in a condo, so I walked the dog around the block and stole other peoples gardens.

The air is perfumed with the scent of lilac.

Focus and depth of view isn't always so great, it being hard to focus with a dog pulling on the end of her leash. I'm not even sure I got some of the photos oriented the right way (portrait/landscape). You should at least get a sense of how colourful it is in our neighbourhood.

Offsite photos of ==>late spring colours.
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Old 04-19-2010, 12:32 PM   #199
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Hehe, thanks, Tom and Dave. Of course, as soon as I posted those pictures the sun went in and I had to close the kitchen door and put the heating on. Still, it's very pleasant - definitely no frost.

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Hey, Beppe. How did you get on with that? It's quite common to grow globe artichokes (the thistles, rather than Jerusalem artichokes) in France - and I see you're in Italy - but it's not so common here, and they're really expensive in the shops.

Mind you, I agree with previous posters - I find it a bit too much trouble to grow vegetables, especially with the snails and slugs. Everyone in London went mad for growing vegetables last year - not just here, I gather than Michelle Obama has an 'allotment' at the White House - and we duly followed suit. The only plant that really thrived was the purple-sprouting broccoli.
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We don't have a garden since we live in a condo, so I walked the dog around the block and stole other peoples gardens.

The air is perfumed with the scent of lilac.

Focus and depth of view isn't always so great, it being hard to focus with a dog pulling on the end of her leash. I'm not even sure I got some of the photos oriented the right way (portrait/landscape). You should at least get a sense of how colourful it is in our neighbourhood.

Offsite photos of ==>late spring colours.

For that situation we have "Community Gardens" that you can use to grow you veggies.
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For that situation we have "Community Gardens" that you can use to grow you veggies.
They just fenced off about 1/3 of our "unofficial" off-leash doggie park to make a community garden. Right now it is just green grass with a fence around it. I think they just want to move the doggies along ... plants don't make as much noise.
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We don't have a garden since we live in a condo, so I walked the dog around the block and stole other peoples gardens.
Very nice! You don't need a garden of your own, with your neighbors doing all the work for you
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Hehe, thanks, Tom and Dave. Of course, as soon as I posted those pictures the sun went in and I had to close the kitchen door and put the heating on. Still, it's very pleasant - definitely no frost.


Hey, Beppe. How did you get on with that? It's quite common to grow globe artichokes (the thistles, rather than Jerusalem artichokes) in France - and I see you're in Italy - but it's not so common here, and they're really expensive in the shops.

Mind you, I agree with previous posters - I find it a bit too much trouble to grow vegetables, especially with the snails and slugs. Everyone in London went mad for growing vegetables last year - not just here, I gather than Michelle Obama has an 'allotment' at the White House - and we duly followed suit. The only plant that really thrived was the purple-sprouting broccoli.
they are extremely popular here. having the baby artichokes cut in half and sauteed is incredible! I'm going to try planting them for the first time this year

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For that situation we have "Community Gardens" that you can use to grow you veggies.
these are getting extremely popular. but actually we started one at our church in Boulder over 30 years ago!
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They just fenced off about 1/3 of our "unofficial" off-leash doggie park to make a community garden. Right now it is just green grass with a fence around it. I think they just want to move the doggies along ... plants don't make as much noise.

The opposite happened here in one community last year. They closed a long-time community garden (for no apparent reason).

Probably built condos...
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Hello, what beautiful pictures!

I'm in London and it's sunny and beautiful here today. My bleeding heart plant is out in the garden.

Here's a photo: and detail:

I love, love, love this plant! Its arrival always heralds the start of spring.
Congratulations! what a wonderful sight! Where I live it is still touch and go with the weather.
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Hey, Beppe. How did you get on with that? It's quite common to grow globe artichokes (the thistles, rather than Jerusalem artichokes) in France - and I see you're in Italy - but it's not so common here, and they're really expensive in the shops.

artichokes: I got the cuttings from a friend and planted them, in a sheltered place. They need food, quite a lot and water, and heat. I had the spiny ones, that are more fragrant then the globe one. It's a huge bush. You pick the buds and eat them. We are in a marginal zone, being close to the lakes. They come nicely near the sea or at the latitude of Rome.
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they are extremely popular here. having the baby artichokes cut in half and sauteed is incredible! I'm going to try planting them for the first time this year
The way I prefer them is raw. cleaned from the points and the hard leaves (you put them in a bowl with water and lemon juice so that they do not blacken), Cut the long hearts in 4, take away the hairs and slice thinly. Olive oil and salt. Bread.
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Very nice Helen, it looks very tropical, quite unlike the frost on the ground here this morning.
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Hehe, thanks, Tom and Dave. Of course, as soon as I posted those pictures the sun went in and I had to close the kitchen door and put the heating on. Still, it's very pleasant - definitely no frost. ...
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