26 Wednesday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, happy times, harder, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, purple, treat, weather, widow
recently I wandered around my space and took photos of all the blooming or nearly blooming things…
January and February are often harder months for me and having flowers blooming really lifts my spirits…
so much beauty in this space and I am grateful;-)…
22 Monday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, coleus, garden, growing, ivy, moments, nature, planting, plants, slips, widow
well, the coleus has been transplanted…
there were lots of roots when I checked the glass the slips were in… I went out to the garage and brought in four pots and a pail filled with potting mix…
found a plastic container to use as a saucer and planted the 9 different pieces…
they are now on the dining room table in the light so we will see what happens…
at the same time I planted two ivy slips into a small pot which is going to sit on the bathroom window ledge…
more plants;-)…
08 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, garden, growing, careful, moments, plants, secateurs, trim, virginia creeper, widow
decided the Virginia creeper over the hot tub was starting to creep too much towards the water…
grabbed my secateurs and a pail… moved the steps to the other side of the hot tub and climbed up…
was careful not to fall as I climbed onto the cover and along the edge to get to the window…
happy to get back on the ground when it was done…
looks much tidier now…
and I am still in one piece;-)…
28 Wednesday Jul 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cucumber, flowers, food, garden, growing, happy, moments, nature, plants, prickly, sweep, weather, widow
this is the first time I have planted/grown cucumbers and I’ve been surprised at how prickly they are…
the cucumber plants had a ton of flowers on them, but no actual cucumbers…
I read online that I should take a broom and sweep over them… this is supposed to help with pollination…
I decided to give it a try the other day… found one of my beloved’s brushes and brushed over as many of the flowers as I could… that was on Saturday…
today, this is what I spotted… plus two others…
not sure if it was the brushing or whether I just had to wait a bit longer, lol…
but I am absolutely thrilled…
25 Friday Jun 2021
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watching the grass grow has taken on a whole new meaning, lol…
and it is coming along nicely;-)… there has been lots of watering…
Wednesday it got mowed and the garden looks so much tidier…
still going to be a while before it is fully grown in…
11 Sunday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, growing, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, patience, plants, poppies, wait, widow
this morning I sprinkled poppy seeds in the garden… hope they take… the poppies are always the first flower to bloom… they self-seed and some years there are just one or two and other years there are lots of blooms… it is amazing that they come back, even after the garden bed was completely dug up eight years ago…
I have also been enjoying the morning glory seedlings… I can hardly wait to plant them outside;-)…
I can see morning glories everywhere;-)…
22 Saturday Aug 2020
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Alaska, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, family, garden, grape tomatoes, growing, moments, plants, seeds, tomatoes, widow
so far, I’ve had two grape tomatoes from my plants…
I started these in the house in a cardboard egg carton from wrinkled grape tomatoes that weren’t good enough to eat, lol…
rather pleased with the result…
also finally have one of the vine tomatoes starting… I found the seeds for these in a pile of items from our 2013 Alaska trip… wasn’t sure they would still be good;-)…
not sure how big this one will get, but happy to check daily;-)…
17 Wednesday Jun 2020
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big girl pants, ceramic, dahlia, flowers, garden, growing, happy, moments, nature, plants, pond, weather, widow
one of the pots around the pond was a black pail that I had put a dahlia in and then a butterfly bush as the dahlia didn’t grow… could be the problem was no drainage…
a few days ago, I pulled a ceramic pot out from under the deck and repotted the butterfly bush into it along with one of the pansies that had been in too much shade…
looks much better, I think.. hope the plants like this one better…
27 Monday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, flowers, garden, growing, planted, purple, rain, tubers, weather, widow
had a busy morning in the garden yesterday…
opened my box from The Dahlia Expert and took out my eight new tubers… I’d set it on the floor out of the way for a few days after it arrived to be sure it was safe;-)…
found pots, cleaned them out and matched the tubers with the appropriate pot…
left them outside for the rest of the day hoping that the rain might give them a drink… it did rain for a very short time but not a lot…
took quite a while, but eventually all eight were nestled in their new homes…
brought them in just before dark and put them back out for the day this morning…
they will be coming in and going out for the next while as I wanted them to get a head start on growing before they can live outside permanently;-)…
so excited to watch them grow…
19 Sunday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, fence, garden, growing, happy, lilac, lilac bush, memories, moments, neighbour, pruning, remembering, story, surveyors, widow
today I spent hours sitting in the living room reading and watching the neighbour across the street working on the lilac bush… this is how it looked a few weeks back…
here is how it looked a few years ago when it was blooming…
yesterday they had surveyors out measuring the edges of the property, so I am assuming they are going to put up a fence… the surveyors had to dig into the bush to set their mark…
this morning I spotted him chopping down a bunch of the branches and wondered if he was removing the whole thing…
eventually I went outside and shared the story of that particular bush… maybe twenty-five years ago we removed a lilac from the backyard… we gave a tiny piece to our neighbour who lived in that house…
I shared how her teenage son would take out his frustrations with a golf club on the little bush… so was amazed that it grew up, lol…
the new neighbour advised that he is putting in a fence along the side, but was just pruning the bush so he could work with it without needing a ladder…
here’s a final shot of how it looks now…
glad it is remaining and looking forward to watching it grow;-)…
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