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One foot in either state? Thanks for the welcome! And I'll see what I can do about pictures.

Thanks! I had family in Medford and Ashland for many years. Beautiful place for growing!

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Thanks! We're just trying to clean up our little patch.

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Yes, I'll try to do that! I've been taking a lot of bird pics, but not so much of the flowers.

It is gorgeous, yes. I'll try to get some pics to post, although most of the flowering plants are already done.

Nice! We have yarrow everywhere, and we've planted several salvia species. We are fortunate to have a native plants nursery near us. Every plant is identified by its taxonomic name as well as the common one, along with range, soil, and other useful information. We had an ash tree that was...

Yes. Supporting native pollinators is one of our main concerns. I've been gung ho to support honeybees, but we are focused on native bees, now. We are planting native honeysuckle, but it will take several years before they manage to replace the invasive honeysuckle. We have milkweed and a bunch...

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The kale and the peas have both been in the ground much longer than they should need to come up. We think we just got defective seed. Peas have never failed to come up quickly for me, and the one time I planted Kale, it did as well.

Greetings, all! We have our first vegetable garden in a number of years, since we moved to the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia last summer. We are growing heirloom carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, kale (which isn't coming up), a variety of lettuce, peas (which also aren't coming up)...