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03 Friday Jul 2026

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apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…

it is growing by leaps and bounds…

along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…

the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…

my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…

it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…

period…

01 Wednesday Jul 2026

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it always amazes me how much better plants do in the place they like…

a perfect example is the coneflower…

previously we had tried one in the bed by the pond and it died off…

last year we planted one along the driveway, beside the chimney… it had two flowers, which made me very happy…

this year I counted at least a dozen blossoms… looking forward to seeing them as they open…

the blossoms are different sizes, so they should open over a period of time;-)…

clearly they like the strong sun in that spot and are very happy 😁

heat…

26 Friday Jun 2026

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had a lovely walk to the English and Leo Mol Gardens, where I met up with my adventure buddy…

as I waited, I sat with the woman who spends all her time reading… I wasn’t able to see the name of the book, lol…

the gardens are looking much nicer than the last time we walked through them, although everything is still a bit behind…

after we’d been around both areas, we popped over to the Park Cafe and had the Berry Good Sundae, which we had enjoyed just the week before when we were there for a birthday celebration;-)…

tasted like a lovely treat after all that walking in the heat;-)…

then a walk home… and a nap😄…

disguise…

25 Thursday Jun 2026

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we bought a new net which we hope will act as a better filter for the pond, so that, hopefully, we won’t have to climb into the pond as often to clean the pump…

right now we have some plants sitting on top of it to kind of disguise it…

if it works well, we will see if we can cut it down just a bit, so it isn’t above water level…

fingers crossed that it does the job;-)…

guzzle…

23 Tuesday Jun 2026

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so, the other day my adventure buddy brought me some beautiful peonies and they looked and smelled delicious…

what I didn’t know about peonies is that they guzzle water like crazy and just possibly they ran out of water…

I added more water when I realized what had happened, but most of them didn’t perk up…

eventually, I tossed out the very dead ones and cut back the few remaining…

and I also put some of the dead ones into a small vase to put in the den because they still smelled delicious…

a few buds went into a small container and they have opened;-)…

hardware…

16 Tuesday Jun 2026

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a few days ago, I planted morning glory seeds in the pallet planter box…

had some strange idea that the squirrels wouldn’t want to eat the seeds, lol…

checked it yesterday only to discover that the squirrels like to dig in the fresh soil, even if they ignored the seeds…

found a piece of hardware cloth that fit perfectly, so pinned it in…

let’s see if they can get past that;-)…

monstera…

14 Sunday Jun 2026

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the monstera has been struggling and leaning forward…

we picked up hardware cloth and made a tube for moss which apparently the monstera will cling to and grow up higher…

then we wedged in a few 2x4s to keep the moss tube centered in the pot…

the plant was divided into two pots and fastened to the pole… rocks, soil, and coconut husks were added and the two new plants moved into the living room…

we will see how they do;-)…