17 Saturday Oct 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, mandevilla, moments, nature, transplanting, widow
the mandevilla is taking the transplanting and moving into the house very well…
there are still flowers blooming and the leaves remain green;-)…
06 Thursday Aug 2026
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beans, big girl pants, coffee grounds, flowers, food, garden, growing, moments, nature, nitrogen, tomato plants, tomatoes, widow
great excitement the other day when I checked the giant tomato plants in the side garden…
I’d read that beans provide nitrogen, which tomatoes like so I planted them between the 3 tomatoes… then I also read that coffee grounds are good for tomatoes, so I dumped the weekly coffee grounds in there as well…
I think the tomatoes loved all of that, because they have grown huge… but, not a single flower was seen…
and then, I discovered numerous flowers on each of the plants… and even two marble sized tomatoes…
very happy, although there are very few beans coming along, lol…
03 Monday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, bitten, flowers, garden, growing, moments, nature, plants, rosebud, squirrel, widow
I’ve been watching this little rose for a number of days… it was very close to opening…
when I went out this morning, the rosebud was no longer on the plant… but bits of it were on the table…
I’m guessing that a squirrel bit it off, and then didn’t even eat it🥺…
but it reminded me that I enjoy nature in the garden, lol…
04 Saturday Jul 2026
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, climb, garden, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, widow
the plants on the new arch are just taking off…
the morning glories have just begun to climb up along the deck side and I am hoping for many flowers before too long…
the other side has a number of plants growing… cucumbers and beans, including scarlet runners…
I am hoping they might invite the hummingbirds to the garden…
I may have planted too many🤪…
02 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, happier, lemon, lemon tree, moments, nature, new leaves, widow
the lemon tree is very happy outside…
it has new leaves sprouting all over… much happier than when it went out last year…
all this from a seed out of a kitchen lemon… I can’t, for the life of me, remember when it was first planted;-)…
06 Wednesday May 2026
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allium, big girl pants, growing, kaleidoscope, memories, moments, nature, plants, purple, The Leaf at Assiniboine Park, widow
just after I took this photo of a beautiful allium, a visitor asked me what it was…
then I had a lovely conversation with another visitor who was telling me about the allium that grew in her garden outside of the city… she said they grew six feet tall and took over the garden…
made me laugh as I shared how this was one of my beloved’s favourites and no matter what we did, they would not grow for us…
we ended the conversation noting that, in our experience, some plants will or won’t grow for certain people, lol…
28 Sunday Sep 2025
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25 Monday Aug 2025
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around, bench, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, surprise, vine, weather, widow
the other day I posted about the morning glory that had grown through a space in the back of the bench on the deck…
I was hoping that the vine would have flowers on the front of the bench;-)…
today I looked carefully and discovered this, lol…
it went around the 2×4 and back out on the same side…
too funny;-)…
01 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooming, flowers, garden, giggling, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, weather, widow
been giggling a bit…
I planted many morning glories and have been watching for the first blooms…
yesterday I spotted the first one… it was blooming under the bench of the butterfly chair, lol…
nearly impossible to see…
today I saw the second bloom, on the bench this time and with another bud preparing to open;-)…
hope more will open higher up, lol…
10 Tuesday Jun 2025
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