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@roughwood_softgrass Anne - check them out! My babies! White Martagon lilies on their second year from seed. I really really hope there was no mixup and they truly are white. Five years is a long time to wait to be disappointed… 🤞😊🤞A pandemic with lockdowns was good for my garden. I raised the firepit patio about three inches and connected the areas around it with stone. Had it been a normal year, I bet we would still have been looking at a mud pit.So grateful for the rain! 💦🌿A few scenes from the #hotbed at the # communitygarden and beyond. A few hours spent up there in pouring rain STILL beats house cleaning a thousand times. I’m afraid the house will have to wait yet another week. 😆Did three back-to-back consultations today, and the last one was for a fabulous house on the Columbia, under massive oak trees - one of which had just blown down. The house had the most wonderful copper salmon downspouts. So great! 🤩Never a shot without a garden hose taking center stage, but you know how it is - it’s been a very dry spring. Had a consultation scheduled for this evening, but the client thought it was *next* week, so I got the night off. I don’t mind in the slightest - I needed some downtime in my own yard for a change. Just me, the cats and a beer. Aaahhh…
Tag Archives: wood
Celebration of the times before the big disconnect – how the old masters selected wood
I spent my childhood summers on a farm in a rather desolate part of northern Sweden. At one point, much later in life, we were looking into moving a small grain storage barn on the property. It was situated a … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Culture, On Building, Scandinavia
Tagged Building, history, lumber, Materials, Nature, Swedish, timber, Traditional, Trees, wood
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Lyptus – is it really as green as we want it to be?
22 August 2010 There is a great, sustainable wood option out there, that the trade refers to as Lyptus. It is a fast-growing, plantation-grown tree that is a hybrid of two species of Eucalyptus. It is successfully used in reforestation … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Environment
Tagged fast-growing, Green, lyptus, Renewable, Resources, sustainable, Trees, wood
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