25 Wednesday Jun 2025
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the daisies have been blooming for a few weeks and they had grown very tall… I got some lovely videos of them dancing in the breeze…
the other day I cut them back, hoping they will come back and be a bit shorter, lol…
now, we will wait and see;-)..
10 Tuesday Jun 2025
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29 Tuesday Jun 2021
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the daisies have crossed the garden a number of times over the years…
this year there are none… this is very sad…
I noticed that there was a clump in the neighbour’s front yard… I think they travelled a bit farther than before…
I’m hoping they come back to the garden next year;-)…
22 Friday Jun 2018
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baskets, big girl pants, daisies, design, flowers, garden, grandson, moments, plants, purple, quality, shopping, weeding, widow
had the most wonderful day…
walked over to the “A” and met my oldest grandson for breakfast…
on the way I came across a bunny having a snack and a goose looking for its friends…
after breakfast we went to Superstore and picked up a bunch of baskets to put in the front flowerbed…
we weeded… a lot… I cut back all the daisies so we can actually walk on the path up to the bridge over the pond…
we saw a butterfly on one of the chairs, found some jewellery for him to take home, got all the pots filled, and then washed the windows in the living and dining room while a thunderstorm rolled over…
he worked so hard in the side garden…
not perfect yet, but we are on the way… we redesigned how it is going to look and have a plan for once he gets back from his grad trip…
we ran out to the Outlet Mall and Polo Park and had leftover Chinese food for lunch…
sure do enjoy spend quality time with this young man…
21 Thursday Jun 2018
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big girl pants, cupcake, daisies, family, flowers, garden, goal, grandson, soccer, Spring, thirteen, widow
today the middle grandson turned thirteen…
it is also the first day of summer…
took pictures in a circle in the garden this morning…
the daisies looked amazing..
once they finish blooming I will cut them back because they are in the middle of the path, lol…
tonight’s game was great fun and the birthday boy scored two goals…
my son-in-law had to use a wrench to get the lock off the nets so they could get them into place on the field so the game could begin…
game ended with a win and cupcakes for his teammates…
pretty great way to spend the first day of Spring…
18 Sunday Jun 2017
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big girl pants, daisies, field, forget-me-nots, goldfinch, guest, supper, walk, widow
spent time walking and came across this tiny field of daisies…
and these sweet little forget-me-nots…
and later, just as we were putting supper on the table, we had this guest at the feeder…
beautiful end to a lovely day…
13 Tuesday Jun 2017
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09 Saturday Jul 2016
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agreement, big girl pants, daisies, feeder, fushia, garden, mandevilla, squirrels, travelling, widow
had a great little wander around the garden this morning…
the mandevilla is getting ready to bloom… it hasn’t done that well so I am very happy that there are finally buds, at least 8 of them… mandevillas take a long time for the flowers to open and they are very architectural…
these fushia are a different colour than my usual red and purple ones… two of those have already died… too much rain I think… will see how these ones do…
these daisies are in the grass in the neighbour’s yard… I think they may have travelled over from my garden and they look very cute… glad I caught them before they are mowed down… the daisies in our garden have travelled across the yard at least three or four times over the years…
spent time reading and watching these two squirrels at the feeder… they’ve been spending lots of time eating and fighting over who gets to stay there… most of yesterday they were tossing one another off the feeder… couldn’t tell if they were taking turns or if the same one was always left on it… today they seem to have come to an agreement and have been sharing the space…
22 Wednesday Jun 2016
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just yesterday a colleague and I were discussing how best to look after orchids…
I was sharing the story of my IKEA orchid which I purchased in October… it bloomed until about a month ago and now a new stem is blooming…
I treat orchids like cut flowers… well, basically that’s how I deal with all plants…
I water them sparingly on Saturday… some people use an ice cube weekly to be sure they don’t overwater… my orchids have all liked being in the sun for a good portion of the day…
if they last longer than a bouquet that’s great, if not they get tossed…
way less stress and I am often pleasantly surprised when they last a long time…
I have a bamboo which one of my daughter’s friends brought me when I had surgery in 2010… still going strong…
tonight I was sitting outside while the pond was filling and admiring the daisy explosion in the garden…
they are everywhere…
flowers inside and out… what a treat…
15 Wednesday Jun 2016
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arrived home, started dinner and checked out the garden while I was topping up the water in the pond… sadly it has a ton of string algae… going to have to put some peroxide in to see if that will get rid of it…
the Veronica blooms are taking over the garden… it looks wonderful…
got a nice close up…
these little white flowers are very happy but for the life of me I can’t remember their name…
and finally the daisies were blooming…
they are my older daughter’s favourite and I get to see her tomorrow so it was fun to see them…
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