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flowerbed…

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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Hilda the Gardener spent a few hours on Wednesday afternoon tidying up the garden…

now that the poppies are finished blooming, she removed the ones that were in the walkway and cut back the ones in the flowerbed…

the other plants in that bed are visible and will likely spread out a bit more…

she also removed the lily of the valley from a section of the side garden…

the columbine are taking over but it looks fabulous… and the peas are moving up the arch at an astounding speed…

everything is doing well, including the clover and grass that we put down a few weeks ago…

I will be very happy when I don’t have to water it every day, lol…

train…

11 Wednesday Jun 2025

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the clematises are both doing well…

the one on the deck worried me for a while because all the flowers appeared to die off at once… I was concerned that all the rain was too much for it, but now it has begun to bloom again, yay…

the one in the driveway opened its first bloom nearly a week ago, and now there are many more buds opening;-)…

I think I need to train it a bit better so that it stays closer to the trellis…

something to work toward, lol…

sander…

08 Sunday Jun 2025

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finally used my housemate’s electric sander to remove the majority of the peeling blue paint from what had been a fountain…

eventually it turned into a planter, but started peeling like crazy…

it has been sitting under the deck, where I could ignore it, for quite some time…

didn’t take too long once I got going to sand it down so it can be painted…

I do love purple, but the sun changes it to blue over time… still not quite sure what colour it is going to be… hmmm…

accessible…

07 Saturday Jun 2025

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recently, as I was watching my grandson leaving the garage, I realized that he was having to struggle with all the virginia creeper that was attempting to take over the doorway, lol…

so, I brought out a pail, put on my gloves, and used the clippers to make the space a little more open…

from there I went to the side gate and did a fair bit of trimming as it was getting difficult to get to the tap and hose…

much more accessible now;-)…

then I had a sit down and did some reading, lol…

gunk…

03 Tuesday Jun 2025

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did some work on the small pond pumps, which are used to move the water in the bathtub pond and add more oxygen in the main pond…

climbed into the pond and brought the pump onto the edge of the deck and cleaned out all the gunk that was in it and then put it back into the pond…

brought up the second pump and after climbing into the bathtub pond, got it set in the correct spot so it wouldn’t send the water out of the pond… then it was turned on and that pond was topped up…

now there won’t be any issues with mosquitoes and I’m going to add a few more plants to that one…

the garden is coming along nicely…

sprouting…

02 Monday Jun 2025

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quite awhile ago the last of the plants made their way into the garden, either in pots, or the ground…

I’ve been watching daily to see if things are sprouting out of the planters… so far, three of the dahlias have popped up, but one has not, and it was the one I was most looking forward to, lol…

the strawberry that had gone into the ground in the fall has moved into a pot and has quite a few blossoms on it… as well as the beginnings of berries…

I painted rocks red to hopefully keep the birds from eating the berries before we get to them…

apparently the birds will go for the red rocks and decide that red things aren’t worth it, lol…

puddling…

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…

water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…

we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…

turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…

so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…

and so it goes…

acclimate…

31 Saturday May 2025

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I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…

first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…

next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…

orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…

brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…

when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…

the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…

preparation…

29 Thursday May 2025

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the pond was filled and running for just over a week in preparation for the fish…

recently I had to climb in to place the water lily and sort out a problem with the second pump which wasn’t working…

took a few tries, but eventually it got going…

the water temp was really cold and when I got out my legs were bright red, lol…

I also topped up the water as it continues to leak a bit…