beefsteak…

19 Monday Jun 2023

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I am so pleased with how the garden is coming along, even with this rather changeable weather…

there are teeny little cucumbers starting to grow… at least one butternut squash has started, and there is a lovely beefsteak tomato…

the beautiful strawberry got eaten… and not by a human;-(… not sure if it was a bird or a squirrel, but I’m leaning towards squirrel, lol…

dressed…

18 Sunday Jun 2023

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spent a beautiful, quiet day in the garden…

I always start with putting all the cushions out so that the space feels dressed…

I watched baby house sparrows, at the pond for drinks, flutter as they learn to use their wings… one tried to have a dust bath on the table, lol…

a few nearly flew into me…

the fish are enjoying the shade of the water lily leaves and spent lots of time out and about the pond…

and the two water lily flowers opened slowly and looked so pretty…

yesterday I spotted another bud and this morning I found a fourth one…

heard the drums at the park as the marathoners went through and thought of my dad and my beloved…

it was a lovely day;-)…

grown…

17 Saturday Jun 2023

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Tuesday and Wednesday we spent hours at The Leaf in Assiniboine Park…

things have grown and been added since I was last there…

there was mist rising from the ground and there are now three cacao trees…

it was very exciting to see them in flower and with pods on one…

Tuesday we were there in the morning and came across some school classes and quite a few other visitors… we had a delicious lunch at Gather and went back into the biomes for a last look before heading home…

on Wednesday we went in the evening… I had hoped the lights would be on but they weren’t until after we left, lol… there were few others in the space and ample opportunities to sit quietly and reflect on the beauty of nature…

thanks to a very knowledgeable volunteer, we found the sugar cane and the dinosaur trees…

we did enjoy dessert at Gather before a quick walk through the Diversity Gardens… one treat was sitting by a fire in the Indigenous Peoples Garden…

looking forward to another visit in a few weeks… cheers;-)…

excitement…

16 Friday Jun 2023

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great excitement around here…

two water lilies are going to bloom at the same time… don’t think this has happened before;-)… what a treat…

this was one of them yesterday afternoon…

and this is how they both looked today…

I think if the sun had come out they might have both been completely open…

maybe tomorrow;-)…

tour…

14 Wednesday Jun 2023

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it has been fun watching neighbours check out the construction of the new back fence…

from stepping into the lane to see what was happening, to offering advice and tools to aid in the process, to checking out the ponds when they were easy to see without any obstacles in the way, to sweeping up some of the final debris…

I met a few that I hadn’t known before and enjoyed a tour of one of their gardens… wow, it certainly puts mine to shame, lol… flowers everywhere and dear little wooden items they build to add to the beauty of the garden…

it is quite amazing what can be found behind garden gates;-)…

shock…

13 Tuesday Jun 2023

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Saturday morning I was surprised and amazed to spot a water lily flower popping up in the pond…

the reason I am surprised is that this water lily was in the pond all winter…

when I closed up the pond in the fall, just before I put a tarp over it, I was only able to bring out two lilies… this one was so stuck in the bottom I couldn’t remove it…

when I uncovered everything this spring, before I put water in, it had already started to sprout a bit, but was purpley-red…

it stayed that colour for weeks and only recently turned green… some of the leaves still have the purple colour around the outside edges…

and there is a second bud now… two buds at once has never happened before;-)…

what a shock…

so this fall I am going to leave all of them in the pond and see what happens, lol…

first…

08 Thursday Jun 2023

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this morning I spotted one of the first morning glories;-)… woohoo…

and this afternoon a monarch came by for a visit…

lovely treats…

soil…

05 Monday Jun 2023

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on Friday, Hilda the Gardener arrived just before a thunderstorm to work in the garden… while we waited for the rain to stop we made tea and drank it on the deck once the storm was over…

then she planted up the front pots and moved a few things around in the garden…

the pots were filled with the bits and pieces left over from the plant collection that hadn’t made it into soil… they look pretty good considering, lol…