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winnow…

26 Sunday Sep 2021

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been collecting seeds for the last week or so…

the morning glories are very simple… I just put one hand under the little pod and squish it with the other… then I winnow the part holding it together by blowing over my hand… the excess blows away and the seeds remain and can be popped into a container…

the datura are a bit more complicated… the seed pods are covered in very sharp spikes which try to hurt me, lol…

I now have a container for each of the two types I have grown this year… the lovely white ones and the smaller, but cute, purple ones…

it is best to wait for the pods to start cracking as they dry, which makes removing them slightly easier… the dryer they are, the easier to remove…

I have quite a collection…

mound…

25 Saturday Sep 2021

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had a great time with Hilda the Gardener this afternoon…

we discussed plans for the next month or so, and for the spring…

she moved some soil for me and I finished filling up the new raised bed…

she also brought the mandevilla up onto the deck… it will be coming into the house before too long..

she moved baby’s breath, silver mound and milkweed to what I hope will be better spots…

and removed some of the weeds in the side garden…

it always makes me happy to see the difference once she’s been here…

begonia…

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;-)…

ear…

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…

male…

03 Friday Sep 2021

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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…

become…

02 Thursday Sep 2021

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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…

mum…

24 Tuesday Aug 2021

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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…

damaged…

20 Friday Aug 2021

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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…

drink…

08 Sunday Aug 2021

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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;-)…