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| katie-ell |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 05:44:13 AM
I just posted new pictures of my serviceberry in bloom on my blog. And I included a recipe for serviceberry jam. Also pics of my spring bulbs and spring thrifting inspiration.
Leave a comment on the blog if you wish. I love 'seeing' visitors to my blog!
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| katie-ell |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 3:57:48 PM
Jonni!
If the weather stays cool here, I could pot up some little seedlings? And if there's a stray clump, I'll pot that up too, and get them all adjusted for a bit and then send them to you. These are the straight Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose).
The new cultivars I purchased are 'Ivory Prince', 'Red Lady', 'Pink Lady', and 'Spotted Lady'. Such beauties! 'Ivory Prince' has a different-looking foliage -- more blue-green and mottled. Very pretty flower is outward facing rather than nodding down. Can't wait to try these here.
Email me if you want some hellebores!
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 3:11:12 PM
We can grow them Katie, but for whatever reason they are hard to find around here...when I'm out and about at nurseries, I usually forget about it looking for other things. I'll probably have to order them.
I'd love to know about the new cultivars. It's one of my favorite plants, actuall, and I am in dire need of redoing my shade garden--the drought really took it's toll last year. I will probably pull everything up this summer and amend the soil.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| okiequilter |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 1:39:45 PM
Thank you, Miss Wilma for your kind comments about my blog. I'm new at all this. It's fun! but takes time. This week I've had company and also been trying to catch up with my sewing orders.
I love visiting your blog, your pictures are great!
Thanks again! 
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Cathy I just come up and took a quick look at your blog, it is wonderful, I will go back again and again , This is one of the best. Miss WILMA
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| katie-ell |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 2:27:26 PM
Jonni -- You should be able to grow hellebores, no? I'm finding them pretty easy to grow in the shade (spring-time sun) -- and have lots of little seedlings popping up all over the beds and in the path. And I just found some new, named cultivars at the nursery this week -- will be planting them for clients but at least one will need to be for us. A great, underused plant.
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| miss wilma |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 10:25:52 AM
Cathy I just come up and took a quick look at your blog, it is wonderful, I will go back again and again , This is one of the best. Miss WILMA
Farm Girl #96
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| okiequilter |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 06:39:35 AM
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Originally posted by katie-ell
I just posted new pictures of my serviceberry in bloom on my blog. And I included a recipe for serviceberry jam. Also pics of my spring bulbs and spring thrifting inspiration.
Leave a comment on the blog if you wish. I love 'seeing' visitors to my blog!
www.youaretoocreative.blogspot.com
Katie,
Thanks for the invite to your blog. Your flowers are really beautiful! What an inspiration!!
Cathy (okiequilter)
www.AuntDaisysCottage.blogspot.com
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| miss wilma |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 05:13:34 AM
Well anyway if we can keep the birds out of them I will get to eat Sarvas-- Service Berries for the first time in 40 years. I cant wait to tell my dad that we have one
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| katie-ell |
Posted - May 03 2008 : 04:55:33 AM
Miss Wilma -- That is the sweetest story! I know that serviceberry is also sometimes called 'shadblow' because it blooms when the shad (fish) are migrating to spawn in fresh water. And I think it's called serviceberry because it provides a service -- that is, berries -- for wildlife and us humans. But I've never heard it called Sarvas. Love the old mountain way!
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| miss wilma |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 8:52:19 PM
Katie, this is the funnies thing we have lived here 40 years and thru the years had asked lots of people if they had ever heard of Sarvus trees, no one had, Where we moved from London the woods were plentiful with them, We had one on our farm with big berries and I once made Sterl a pie from it, Well about a month ago approx. we saw two trees blooming white up on the hill from our house, Sterl went and checked it out sure enough it was a sarvas tree, today he brought a limb in with the berries on it, so I was telling him about yours . I said Sterl she was calling it a Service tree, He started laughing and said Wilma thats what it is so I said then why do we call the Sarvases. Well to cut this story short sarvas is just an old mountain way of saying service. All these years I thought I grew up eating sarvases
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 8:31:48 PM
those are lovely! your garden is growing so well this early in the season! most of my flowers are those i just planted! i swear, i think i must dig up all my perennials before they have a chance to hatch!
i did just buy a huge box of perennial seeds and am going to put them all in ONE garden and NOT have honey-hunk roto-till it in the spring!
love all your buttons and your sweet way of displaying your treasures!
xo
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 6:42:02 PM
Kate, your service berry tree is gorgeous, but I'm REALLy enamoured of your helliobore. Such blooms--absolutely wonderful!!!! I once had a sort of green/plum blooming Lenten Rose, but lost it in the drought. Beautiful blog for sure...
Lucky girl!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| 22shortie |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 6:34:43 PM
oooh! I just added u to my favorites list! Beautiful Blog!
Fresh and creative projects popping up on my blog daily! Stop by and check out what I'm up to today!
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| katie-ell |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 1:33:47 PM
Thanks for your visits to my blog.
Mary Beth -- I live in Illinois, outside of Chicago. One of my sisters is in Oregon -- Eugene -- and her garden always seems to be at least 3 to 5 weeks ahead of mine. We're zone 5 here.
Aren't ATC cards fun? I need to choose the theme for the next ones my sisters and I will exchange. Always involves lots of thinking and jotting down of ideas on my part.
Thanks, Maryjane, for your kind words as well. I'm nuts about little containers right now -- china cups with buttons, vintage pottery cups with threads, etc etc. Gives me some semblance of organization -- and lots of inspiration!
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| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 10:13:57 AM
Katie, I am ALWAYS inspired when I visit your sweet blog!!! Your photo's are beautiful! What a cute picture of the china cups, buttons & yo yo's! Some of my favorite things! xo
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
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| Marybeth |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 06:52:48 AM
What a nice blog you have. Where do you live? Your plants coming up look like mine at this time of year. We have Western Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) out here growing native.
I love the ATC cards and have done some too. Yours are beautiful. MB
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| Amie C. |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 06:25:01 AM
Katie-ell!! I went to look at the serviceberry, and I also finally learned the real name of those little blue flowers that came up all over my parents yard when I was growing up. Scilla. I've never seen white ones before. Thanks so much for posting that picture!
The serviceberry is lovely too, of course. Don't want it to feel slighted. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 06:24:13 AM
Wonderful, cheery pictures. You have some beautiful flowers.
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| sugarplum |
Posted - May 02 2008 : 06:22:36 AM
Love your blog. I have never heard of serviceberries, but the jam sounds great. Beautiful, beautiful pictures of your garden.
Hugs, RoseMarie
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