04 Tuesday Jun 2019
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so excited to get home yesterday because I received a message from my gardener, Hilda, advising she had been by and done some planting…
it looks great and I can hardly wait to see what happens when she tackles the bed across the yard, lol…
03 Monday Jun 2019
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fun in the garden…
finally got around to planting the lobelia and alyssum… the weather may have turned the corner, although it was something like 4 degrees when I got up…
decided to plant in clumps, so all lobelia in some planters and just alyssum in others…
looking forward to watching them grow and seeing how they look…
01 Saturday Jun 2019
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blessed, clematis, ferns, flowers, garden, leaps, leaps and bounds, lily of the valley, memories, pictures
things are really growing in the garden…
and I don’t just mean the dandelions and grass, sigh…
the ferns are growing by leaps and bounds…
the lily of the valley are starting to bloom… they smell lovely, but they don’t like to stay in one spot… if I was starting a garden I would only put them in a place where they are surrounded by concrete…
and the clematis is happily climbing up the trellis…
26 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, blooms, family, flowerbeds, flowers, garden, grandson, moments, poppies, rocks, widow
today my grandson came over to move the rocks out of the flowerbed in an effort to make it easier for when the gardener is able to start work…
while I was over there I checked out the couple of poppies that have come up… we used to have many, many poppies in the garden, but over the last few years there have been fewer and fewer…
looks like there will be a couple of flowers… pretty exciting…
might be the last ones;-(…
22 Wednesday May 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, flowers, garden, maintenance, plants, widow
been thinking about what to plant in the garden this year…
wondering about doing something a bit different… maybe only choose three or four types of plants and using them in multiples…
have someone coming over to see if they might help me with the maintenance of the garden… excited to see how that turns out…
21 Tuesday May 2019
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alyssum, available, big girl pants, flowers, fuchsia, garden, lobelia, peaceful, petunias, planting, purple, widow
went to look at what plants were available in the stores on Sunday…
it is too soon to do any planting so my goal was to see what is out there…
but then I bought a few things…
picked up a flat of white alyssum and one of purple lobelia… I’ve used these for a number of years in the planters around the deck… the colour and scent add to the peaceful feeling in the garden…
then I chose a basket of midnight stars petunias… petunias have not been one of my favourites, but the flowers on this plant are amazing… this will go into the planter right outside the front door…
finally, a hanging basket of fuchsia, red and purple, which will hang close to the hot tub…
considering that I wasn’t going to buy anything, I guess I did well to stop when I did, lol…
19 Sunday May 2019
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artificial, awapuhi, big girl pants, flowers, ginger, Maui, plastic, purple, travel, vegetation, widow
saw a picture of this particular Hawaiian flower recently, and it reminded me of ones we saw when we were on Maui…
it’s known as spiral ginger, red tower ginger or red velvet ginger… the Hawaiian name for ginger plants is awapuhi…
it is one of the flowers that looks like it is made of plastic, lol… this is from a bouquet we had in the Gingerbread house Airbnb we stayed in…
this one, possibly shampoo ginger, had us touching it a few times because we were convinced it was artificial… but then the little piece opened up… with a bit of purple in it…
it’s always so interesting to see the different vegetation when travelling…
12 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, birds, bloom, creeping Charlie, finches, flowers, garden, identify, sparrows, widow
spent some time in the garden reading this afternoon…
I’ve also been watching the birds…
yesterday I spotted a couple of finches and have been hoping to get a photo of them so I can identify them… I even took my camera upstairs and left it on the landing hoping I might spot them again when going up or down the stairs…
no luck so far, but there are at least four different types of sparrows out there;-)…
and the creeping Charlie is starting to bloom…
03 Friday May 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bliss, favourite, favourite thing, flowers, food, garden, leaves, moments, nature, orchid, orchids, photos, pictures, trees, vacation, waterfall, weather, widow
I’ve been asked by a number of people to share my favourite thing about Maui…
so I’ve been thinking about it… and I can’t come up with just one thing…
over the last week I’ve printed a group of my favourite photos… and have been looking them over and remembering the particular moments each one represents…
there were so many special times… the ocean, the beaches, the rainbows, the trees, the turtles, the vegetation, the orchids, the flowers, snorkelling, the waterfalls, the food, the helicopter flight, the cacao trees, and on and on…
it really was two weeks of bliss;-)…
30 Tuesday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, birthday, black currant, family, flowers, girl, mailbox, memories, moments, parcel, postcard, Tea, treat, widow
started the day admiring a few of the flowers from my birthday bouquet… yesterday morning I removed a few and returned the remainder to the office…
when I got home and checked the mailbox I was very happy…
there was a parcel and a postcard from Hawaii;-)…
the parcel was from one of my “girls” who lives in Vancouver now… she sent me some lovely black currant loose tea… what a sweet girl…
the postcard was from my daughter… she is always sending postcards and while we were on Maui she found one with orchids on it and sent it to me;-)…
just made a cup of the tea… it is lovely…
