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Absolutely enchanting! Weeping pussy willow catkins

6:28 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (8)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have kept the Salix caprea or Weeping Pussy Willow in my back office, next to my work space so that I could look at it all the time. I love the appearance of the silvery white catkins that slowly......

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Hellebore, a sign of spring!

9:04 PM Sun, Feb 21, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon -- although a bit breezy, around mid-40s. I decided to clean up some flower beds in the front garden. Hellebores have appeared, seemingly just overnight! 2.21.10 I actually found hellebores a few days earlier......

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A visit to RI Spring Flower & Garden show

9:45 PM Sat, Feb 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I usually make the point of walking through the annual R.I. flower/garden show every year that I'm in town. I remember one year the theme of the show had something to do with children and another year Martha Smith, the......

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Photos: Getting in touch with spring at R.I. flower show

5:57 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Kendal Bazerman, 3, of Warwick examines a slice of wood and its tree rings with a magnifying glass in the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society's habitat at The Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show Friday at the Rhode......

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'The Tree of Enchantment,' Weeping Pussy Willow

9:31 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (25)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Small weeping pussy willow plants are usually sold in the flower departments of supermarkets around this time of the year and every year I have resisted a temptation to buy one, for fear that I would not know how to......

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Amaryllis Rosado

10:57 PM Sun, Feb 14, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Amaryllis rosado in a green eco pot was a gift I received before Christmas. I started watering it within a few days of its arrival. The first growth appeared about a week later. The two flower stems grew to about......

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African violets, a year later

5:48 PM Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

The first African violet ( Saintpaulia ) I purchased about a year ago for $1.99 is alive and well and has produced beautiful blooms several times in the past 12 months. 2.11.10 I Initially used the powdered fertilizer from Selective......

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Pearl Bells kalanchoe

2:49 PM Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (7)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Recently I stopped at a nursery in nearby North Attleboro after a quick visit to Attleboro's Capron Zoo, not expecting to find anything special. I was delighted to walk out with 5 plants, all in 4-inch pots, for a total......

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Primula malacoides, Fairy primrose

3:45 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

It was, sort of a chance meeting last Saturday when I found Primula malacoides, also called fairy primrose. At a nearby nursery, I walked past a table with several flowering plants in small pots (5 in.) that sent out lovely......

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Getting to know my house plants: Parlor palm, Chamaedora elegans

6:01 PM Sat, Feb 06, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Parlor palm (Chamaedora elegans) is a popular, slow-growing house plant that is known to have been passed from generation to generation. Mine is a first-generation parlor palm, practically hidden away among dracaenas and the arrow head plant in the mixed......

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My kalanchoes are blooming again

6:44 PM Wed, Feb 03, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (6)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have had common kalanchoes, the ones with 4-petal flowers... 3.21.03 ...and calandiva, with double flowers, at various times in the past, but have not been able to get either one to bloom again until this winter. 2.2.10 Kalanchoe is......

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