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twigs…

31 Sunday Jan 2021

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as I was walking around the living and dining rooms today I had a good look at the hibiscus..

it has filled out with leaves and looks great…

it wasn’t that long ago that it was nearly just twigs;-)…

I dug through my photos and found this one from the end of September, after I brought it into the house… the leaves were starting to turn yellow and fall off… apparently I didn’t take any when it was bare, lol…

it did bloom for quite a while even as the leaves fell off…

looking forward to more flowers before too long…

inside…

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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in preparation for the colder weather I’ve now brought in the three plants that live in the house…

last week the Japanese maple came in and settled back in beside the living room window… the leaf colours had already started to change…

a few days back, the mandevilla came in… I added fresh earth and sprayed it with insecticide to remove any creepy crawlers that might have wanted to take a trip…

it had been hanging outside and really wanted to lean forward… eventually three elastics helped make it stand up straight… hope it doesn’t decide to fall over in the dining room…

yesterday I brought the hibiscus inside…. excited to see it has buds on it;-)…

might also bring in a couple of others to see if they can survive the winter in the house…

and tonight I’ve covered the dahlias… the temperature is likely going to -4 Celsius… four of them have buds and I’m hoping they get to open… for two of them, it will be the first time they bloom and I am interested to see how they look…

solution…

09 Wednesday Sep 2020

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the weather has taken quite a turn… for the last few days it has been mainly sunny but rather chilly…

so, I’ve barely been out to the garden, or the world… I’ve even done most of my walking on the treadmill…

a bit of a preview to what the next six or seven months are likely going to be…

and I’m not sure I’m liking it…

today I did go out and spray the hibiscus with a soapy solution which should remove any little bugs… I decided to only test the solution on one plant… just in case, lol…

will see how it looks tomorrow before I spray the rest;-)…

sunburned…

13 Monday Jul 2020

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yesterday the hibiscus finally bloomed for the first time in many months…

it lives in the house over the winter and hadn’t flowered since Christmas…

it was really unhappy when I moved it outside for the summer… the first few days after the move were very hot and it got sunburned… since then many of the leaves have turned yellow and fallen off…

last week I spotted the beginning of the first buds… and a few days ago the first one started to open…

yesterday it was fully open and even after the rain it looked gorgeous…

and there were three blooms ready to open…

and this is what I saw this morning…

nature really is amazing… and beautiful…

surrounding…

20 Wednesday Nov 2019

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beauty is surrounding me… blessed…

first thing in the morning the orchids and hibiscus greet me… it is exciting to see which ones are getting ready to open… wondering how many might open at once…

at the office more orchids are blooming…

more are getting buds;-)…

prune…

02 Saturday Nov 2019

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today I trimmed the hibiscus as it has been growing out in all kinds of odd directions…

I’ve read that this isn’t the best time to prune hibiscus, but it really needed to be tidied up…

and then, after I’d removed some branches, I realized that I had cut off buds!

very sad about that… put them in water and set them in the bathroom… hope they might still bloom;-)…

timing…

10 Thursday Oct 2019

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the hibiscus made it into the house and was looking great… so far…

still had lots of buds and I was eagerly waiting to see if they would bloom because sometimes the buds fall off after a move…

the above photos were taken on Tuesday and the ones below were taken tonight…

it was so wonderful to have these blooming today as it has been snowing since early this morning, sigh…

guess the timing was good, lol…

unfurling…

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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I have learned to appreciate the little moments in my life…

this morning I got this shot of the hibiscus…

one flower was fully open and the second flower was just unfurling…

I was home a bit early at the end of the day as I had to get my ear checked out at the doctor’s office… I spent a few minutes enjoying the hibiscus…

the second flower had unfurled as well…

I get to walk past the hibiscus, morning glories and mandevilla on my way to and from the garage…

so blessed to have such a special garden…

suffered…

17 Wednesday Jul 2019

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started my day at 5:15 and got this photo of the sunrise… it really shows the colour perfectly… within an hour it was overcast… lucky to have been up to see it…

a bit later I went out to take a photo of the hibiscus… it suffered greatly when it moved outside and finally has some flowers starting… and while I was there the purple finch popped over to the feeder;-)…

nearly late for my ride because I didn’t want to stop watching the finch flit to and from the feeder…

Wednesday our CSA box portions arrive… we’ve divided it into four portions which is working perfectly…

tonight I made a smoothie with the strawberries and plan on eating the peas and carrots tomorrow… and the purple pepper is gorgeous;-)…

another great day…