16 Thursday Sep 2021
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yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…
made a lovely little bouquet…
I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…
on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…
they look great on the new coffee table;-)…
09 Thursday Sep 2021
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I went for a walk… outside… in the neighbourhood… no idea when I did that last…
walked with my daughter in my ear…
didn’t go too far, up to and around Bruce Park… it was lovely to see flowers, the creek, and get some photos…
felt fine at the end… only met a few people and they weren’t close to me…
03 Friday Sep 2021
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always learning, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, male, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, research, squash, widow
I spent some time walking around the garden this afternoon…
after checking out the neighbour’s squash plant, which has come into my garden, I went online and did a bit of research…
there are a number of blooms on both sides of the fence but not a single squash growing…
it appears that all of the blooms are male flowers… hopefully a female or two will turn up although I think there is a plan to pull the plant out next week, lol…
02 Thursday Sep 2021
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become, big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, mandevilla, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow
three years ago my mandevilla was blooming profusely on this day… that year, the flowers began opening mid-July…
it lives in the dining room over the winter and doesn’t bloom during that period…
today I took photos of the buds on that same plant… interesting that we are a month and a half later this year…
it takes quite a long time for the buds to become flowers and I am looking forward to the blooms…
24 Tuesday Aug 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, family, flowers, food, garage, garden, Grandpa, moments, mum, mums, plants, tablecloth, weather, widow
had a lovely dinner tonight with the kids…
they brought me a bunch of mums for the garden… I had been collecting parcels for them over the last few weeks, so we traded, lol…
we ate in the garage as it was a bit cool out and rain threatened… I am still nervous about having people in the house for any length of time…
even put one of the plants on the table to provide some ambiance;-)… looks good with the tablecloth, but we won’t mention all the “stuff” that is everywhere…
we spent time remembering how grandpa knew where every single thing was located and planning the organizing and decluttering that has to happen…
20 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, damaged, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, rain, sad, storm, weather, widow
for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…
this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…
and spotted this…
this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…
it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…
08 Sunday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, drink, fertilizer, flowers, friends, garden, moments, nature, plants, tidy, widow
I’ve spent a good part of the last few days cleaning up the flower pots, removing dead leaves, trimming, and deadheading as I went around giving the plants a drink of slightly fertilized water…
friends were coming over and I want everything to look its best;-)…
31 Saturday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, gardening, hostas, moments, nature, plants, pond, pruners, purple, water, widow
today I did some actual gardening, lol…
for some reason I do not like hosta flowers, even though they are purple… odd, because I like the plants…
I got my pail, gloves and pruners and tidied up each of the hostas that had flowers hanging over them… the most difficult was the one behind the waterfall… it is a bit tight in that corner and I didn’t want to fall into the pond again, lol… they look so much tidier now…
I moved a couple of impatiens from a spot where they weren’t visible into a pot that the squirrels had dug up and destroyed a plant… I also repotted a dahlia corm that was in a pot and hadn’t done anything…maybe it was planted too deep… if it doesn’t peek through in the next week I will put something else in the pot…
then it was onto my book and relaxing;-)…
30 Friday Jul 2021
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anthurium, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gift, memories, moments, nature, plants, plastic, purple, widow
I’ve been so focussed on the garden I forgot to share the excitement in the dining room…
this anthurium, which I received as a birthday gift five years ago, flowered once last year after not blooming for four years…
on July 7th I spotted this new bloom;-)…
now it is open and beautiful… although it looks like plastic, lol… once open it lasts for ages…
nature truly is amazing…
29 Thursday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cushions, dahlias, flowers, garden, moments, nature, odour, plants, purple, sanctuary, The Dahlia Expert, water, weather, widow
I was up at 6:30 am watching the Olympics;-)…
I had made my mind up to water the garden first thing because it has been getting hot so early in the day…
I think the temperature only reached 28 Celsius which feels cool after the hot days we’ve been dealing with…
it turned out to be a beautiful day, other than the odour of smoke in the air… luckily, you could smell the smoke, but the sky was clear…
after watering, I put out all the cushions and wandered around checking out flowers…
the planter with the milkweed and morning glories in it was looking spectacular as the morning glories have overtaken the container… not sure that the monarchs can find the milkweed anymore…
the dahlias are doing well and one of the buds on the Robann Regal plant has started to open…
excited to see it fully open…
I also realized that there are more buds starting on the Mick’s Peppermint… that plant is huge and didn’t look like it was going to have more than a few flowers… interesting that the second flower was about half the size of the first one, although it is hard to see that in my photo… and the colours are different on every flower;-)…
sat and enjoyed the view…
I love my garden sanctuary…
