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21 Tuesday Oct 2025

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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…

pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…

I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…

nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…

final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…

still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…

dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…

next they went into the dehydrator to dry…

took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…

hope the dragon likes them…

spider…

13 Monday Oct 2025

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I was a bit shocked when looking at the photographs that I’d taken this morning…

I had taken a few nice pictures of one of the fancy begonias that had come in from outside, which had surprised me with a lovely flower…

and when looking at the picture of the flower, I discovered a spider, yikes…

wonder if it is still there😱…

never…

26 Friday Sep 2025

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the first water lily flower never did really open since the weather had turned cold and rainy…

the second bud came up and opened… this picture was taken yesterday when it was completely open…

today this looks to be about the last of that one…

there is still another bud coming up… hoping for warm, sunny, weather…

magnolia…

17 Wednesday Sep 2025

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this magnolia seems to be blooming one or two buds at a time…

saw some beautiful trees filled with magnolia blooms in Courtenay, BC, more than fifteen years ago and I still remember how amazing the scent was…

unfortunately, this tree is too high up to be able to enjoy the scent, but it is lovely to spot new blooms…

shrivelled…

16 Tuesday Sep 2025

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fun with morning glories today…

as I was taking photos of this blue morning glory, a cute little western honey bee showed up looking for a snack…

happily, I got a few nice pics…

then, later in the day, the morning glories shrivelled up into themselves in a very interesting way, so took a few cool photos…

heated…

14 Sunday Sep 2025

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had breakfast with my adventure buddy at the Park Cafe on Friday… I hadn’t been for awhile, but it was lovely to be recognized by the waitstaff…

enjoyed the classic eggs Benedict with tomatoes instead of hash browns…

then we had a short walk through the English Gardens and a quick look at the water lily pond in the Leo Mol Garden…

the flowers were stunning and we were drawn to all the beautiful dahlias and and roses…

as always the water lilies were blooming in the heated pond…

the frogs do enjoy the warm water, lol…

lovely time;-)…

shrivelled…

30 Saturday Aug 2025

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I spent a large portion of the day reading in the garden and enjoying the flowers and fish…

as the afternoon progressed I watched the morning glories close up… it reminded me of all the days when I worked and how, by the time I got home, they were all done…

this morning I took a photo of the butterfly bench with a number of blooms on it…

currently the majority of the blooms are the large blue ones with a few smaller purple ones still popping out…

by late this afternoon they had all shrivelled up…

what a treat to be able to enjoy them from start to finish;-)…

around…

25 Monday Aug 2025

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the other day I posted about the morning glory that had grown through a space in the back of the bench on the deck…

I was hoping that the vine would have flowers on the front of the bench;-)…

today I looked carefully and discovered this, lol…

it went around the 2×4 and back out on the same side…

too funny;-)…

beauties…

20 Wednesday Aug 2025

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this morning, when I was checking out the morning glories, I discovered this part of the vine which was growing from one side of the deck boards to the other side…

hopefully it will be one of these beauties that opens on the other side…

nature is so clever…