Tag: garden
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Container garden: refreshed!
This weekend, I made a project of refreshing my container garden on the back porch. My annuals had either started to die or just looked kind of bad, except for a couple here and there. I combined those remaining petunias and snap dragons into one pot (the one kind of in the middle, wide and […]
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Container Gardens, renewed
This weekend I wanted to get outside and do something, and I also wanted to be productive, so I decided to pull out all of the empty pots that used to be my container garden and redo them. The flowers died over the summer and fall because we had an unusually hot and dry season. […]
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The Big Island really is BIG.
This weekend we took a trip to Hawaii, the “Big Island,” and discovered that it’s very appropriately nicknamed. We barely drove half of it in the three days we were there. To be fair, we spent most of the first two days exploring and hiking around Volcanoes National Park, but we definitely didn’t have the […]
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Home Improvements
Feeling very handy today, I decided to take care of some chores that I haven’t felt like doing for a while. The front garden of our house is maintained by the housing people and it’s (to put it mildly) ugly. To put it not as mildly, it’s brown muddy mudness with weird slug-attracting plants. I […]
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Painting: cheaper than therapy
Not that I need therapy, but painting is very relaxing. The current project is to decorate about a dozen terra-cotta pots to take to the zoo. They’re various sizes and all need to have some sort of “animal” theme, but really I’ve got a lot of leeway with them. I’ve got half of them finished […]
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Kaimuki Orchid Show
This weekend I went to the Kaimuki Orchid Society’s orchid show. There is huge variety in the orchid world, not just in color but in shape and size, too. There were blooms almost as big as my face, and blooms barely bigger than a pin-head. Amazing! Some of them are bred for color and some […]
Joanna Volavka 