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transplanting…

03 Saturday Oct 2026

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the other day, Hilda the Gardener arrived for fall clean up…

instead we focussed on transplanting many of the plants that were coming into the house…

one of the best new pots we did was in the new basket planters that I recently had given to me…

it came out beautifully…

we cut the original mandevilla down by about half and then combined it with the new one I purchased on sale this summer…

excited to see how it grows…

dancing…

25 Wednesday Jun 2025

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the daisies have been blooming for a few weeks and they had grown very tall… I got some lovely videos of them dancing in the breeze…

the other day I cut them back, hoping they will come back and be a bit shorter, lol…

now, we will wait and see;-)..

anticipate…

09 Friday Aug 2024

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a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…

I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…

my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…

an experiment…

sprinkled…

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…

it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…

after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…

now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…

pit…

12 Monday Sep 2022

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went into the cupboard over the fridge and checked on my current avocado pit…

weeks ago I had put it into a plastic bag with a bit of water, set it up there, and forgot about it… now it was ready…

chose a nice mug container and dug out a used plastic pot that would fit inside it…

popped in some stones and soil… then planted the pit which had cracked in half and had a bunch of roots on the bottom…

looking forward to watching it grow…

search…

26 Sunday Dec 2021

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so happy to finally have an amaryllis…

I’ve had my grandson on the search for some for weeks…

he finally came across one and dropped it off…

it has a pot and soil, but I decided to put it in water and set it inside the snowflake…

looking forward to watching it grow…

hole…

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

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this morning I was reminded of how beautiful hoarfrost can be… the pictures I came across were from eight years ago and showed the elm tree that lived across the street…

it was cut down a few years ago…

I took a photo to compare and was surprised at how much the cedar in our front yard has grown… the photo also shows the huge hole where the tree used to be…

I sure do miss the trees that have gone…

dahlias…

06 Wednesday May 2020

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for a number of days I was moving the dahlia pots outside in the morning and back into the house in the evening…

then they lived in the house for a few days as the weather was rather cool…

and I had such fun checking on them throughout the day to see if they had sprouted, and if so, to see how they had grown…

once again they’ve been moving out and back… most are coming up nicely…

watching new growth is so satisfying, particularly in this time of great unrest in our lives… still waiting for a couple to pop through the soil…

looking forward to the permanent move outside… still haven’t decided where they will each end up…

grow…

23 Sunday Feb 2020

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had a wonderful lunch out the other day…

arrived at the restaurant early and was very relaxed as I had a glass of water and looked around as I waited for my friend…

usually when I am waiting for someone at a restaurant I focus on my phone, lol… today I didn’t feel the need to do that…

what a difference eight years makes… before my beloved died, I had never been in a restaurant on my own…

I continue to grow as time goes by…