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winter-proof…

17 Saturday Oct 2020

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yesterday Hilda the Gardener came to winter-proof the garden…

she trimmed back ferns and hostas; emptied pots in front and back; brought all the dahlia pots onto the deck and cut them back; pulled weeds and trimmed the wild rose in the front flowerbed…

my job will be to remove the dahlia tubers, separate and pack them up for the winter… I’ve had to bring them in to thaw so that I can break up the soil, lol…

we are not raking up the leaves, but will have my grandson do one last mulch in the garden once the furniture is put away…

happy and sad that the garden is nearly prepared for winter…

still a few fish to catch and furniture to move…

inside…

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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in preparation for the colder weather I’ve now brought in the three plants that live in the house…

last week the Japanese maple came in and settled back in beside the living room window… the leaf colours had already started to change…

a few days back, the mandevilla came in… I added fresh earth and sprayed it with insecticide to remove any creepy crawlers that might have wanted to take a trip…

it had been hanging outside and really wanted to lean forward… eventually three elastics helped make it stand up straight… hope it doesn’t decide to fall over in the dining room…

yesterday I brought the hibiscus inside…. excited to see it has buds on it;-)…

might also bring in a couple of others to see if they can survive the winter in the house…

and tonight I’ve covered the dahlias… the temperature is likely going to -4 Celsius… four of them have buds and I’m hoping they get to open… for two of them, it will be the first time they bloom and I am interested to see how they look…

happily…

14 Tuesday Jul 2020

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enjoying time in the garden…

the dahlias are doing well and happily they are opening at different times so there should be some blooming throughout the weeks, rather than all at once and then nothing…

when I planted them I put the plastic bag they came in into the pot and now I can’t read the name, lol…

so far a purple one has bloomed next to the house…

and then a delicate white with purple tones bloomed… 3 flowers last week and 3 are blooming right now…

I cut them and put them in a vase to enjoy in the house…

currently that plant has 4 more buds on it… looks like another white one is starting to open… looking forward to how beautiful it will look when it is completely open…

that leaves two still to develop buds… can’t wait to see what colour they turn out to be… when I ordered them I asked for purple and white varieties…

with my retirement, I am enjoying the ability to spend each day in the garden all summer long…

dahlias…

06 Wednesday May 2020

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for a number of days I was moving the dahlia pots outside in the morning and back into the house in the evening…

then they lived in the house for a few days as the weather was rather cool…

and I had such fun checking on them throughout the day to see if they had sprouted, and if so, to see how they had grown…

once again they’ve been moving out and back… most are coming up nicely…

watching new growth is so satisfying, particularly in this time of great unrest in our lives… still waiting for a couple to pop through the soil…

looking forward to the permanent move outside… still haven’t decided where they will each end up…

buds…

27 Thursday Jul 2017

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took this photo of a dahlia in the garden getting ready to bloom…


although I just bought these this spring it made me think about the ones we bought in 2011 in Courtenay…

we went to visit the Dahlia man… he was very old and lived on a property at the edge of Courtney/Comox… I can’t remember the man’s name, but George would have… he remembered all that type of stuff…

we must have spent two hours with him… looking at all the dahlias which were blooming and then going through his boxes and ziplock bags filled with tubers… he and my beloved talked and talked, lol…

we brought home some of the tubers and he sent more later…

they bloomed beautifully and at the end of the season we lifted them and packed them up for the next year… sadly they were put in ziplock bags and in the spring were all mushy… we hadn’t let them dry sufficiently before bagging them…

both of my girls have developed the same ability to talk to anyone anywhere and know all about them by the end of the conversation… makes me giggle… so not me…

order…

13 Saturday May 2017

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started my day with Pancake House chicken livers, bacon and potato pancakes via SkipTheDishes… one of my favourite meals and I am so happy that I can just pick up my phone and order using the app…

they arrived within twenty minutes of ordering, were hot and delicious…. my own little Mother’s Day treat…

was waiting for my new BBQ to arrive so had to spend some time watching a few of my PVRed shows, lol… was a bit worried it might not arrive at all… when I ordered it last Saturday they advised they would put it together on Tuesday and then deliver it… called yesterday and they thought it should be delivered today…

pulled a few weeds in the driveway and cleaned up the clematis while waiting for the delivery truck… it arrived and they brought the BBQ into the yard… so cute…

and the sides fold down so it barely takes any room in the garage…

went wild and crazy and planted some dahlia tubers and included some of the morning glories that I started a few weeks ago… the planter will stay in the kitchen until it gets a bit warmer out…

then I’ll add the trellis once it goes outside… considering putting some of the morning glories in the planters that go around the deck… will need to put some filament up for them to climb…  just not sure they will get enough sunlight…

lots of yellow flowers in the front yard… kind of pretty but my beloved would not be pleased…

maybe when the kids are here tomorrow they can do something about them…

got a few things done, chatted with a neighbour and rested… 

another great day… life is good…

drops…

16 Friday Sep 2016

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spent the morning wandering through the Park…

most everything was damp and there were lots of drops on the flowers…

this branch was so pretty with the raindrops…

purple water lily in the lily pond…

dahlias are so beautiful… even if they are not purple…

these are so delicate and airy… and the water drops look great…

not sure what kind of duck this is but it was kind enough to stand still so I could get a good shot…

once I got home I had some lunch and a nap… and headed down to the U of W to watch my grandso play volleyball… it was great fun and they played really well…

got this great shot of some of the action… then we blasted to their house, grabbed jackets, picked up supper and headed to his final soccer game of the year… at the end of the that game, one of his buddies poured water on him so he was rather damp on the ride…

back to the volleyball tournament where he played one last game… 

I think he will sleep well tonight… me too, lol…