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Haven’t planted your bulbs yet? Don’t despair yet | Home and Garden
I manufactured my list and checked it two times. I decked my halls and had items all set and wrapped two weeks ahead of Xmas. I frequently compensated myself glowing compliments for how effortlessly I navigated a single of the busiest periods of the calendar year. But it’s the day immediately after Christmas, and I have a confession to make. In a corner of my laundry space, 50 {d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9}-hidden less than piles of ribbons, wrappings and ornament storage bins, are bags of tulip and daffodil bulbs that never acquired planted very last tumble. In a best planet, spring flowering bulbs really should have been planted months back, since they demand…
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This meticulously planned and planted Queen Anne garden changes for the seasons in colorful echoes of a restored Victorian home
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, this sultry Victorian on Queen Anne was once a humble 1906 house clad in white vinyl siding, with a “pretty” pink, yellow and blue garden skirting its foundation. Then Brian Coleman, a Seattle psychiatrist with a love for old houses, discovered a passion for historical restoration. “We added a turret, carvings of sunflowers and cast-iron griffins, along with new siding in a fall palette of deep greens, gold and burgundy,” he says. “The garden had to change!” American poet Phyllis McGinley once wrote, “The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.” Coleman tells me his passion (obsession?) for…