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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…

patience…

06 Sunday Sep 2020

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I searched through my photos and it looks like August 11 was the first time I took a photo of the buds on the mandevilla… this was the first time this summer that this houseplant has even started to get buds…

this morning, 26 days later, the first bloom is open…

they take an incredible amount of time to open;-)…

patience;-)…

garage…

30 Saturday May 2020

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took this photo of one of the poppies that is growing in the garden…

I am hoping that all of these buds will continue to grow and bloom although the temperature has been a bit crazy the last few days…

Thursday night I brought some of the plants into the house and covered those around the deck…

last night I put all of them into the garage, except for a couple of heavy ones just outside the kitchen… happily, the clematis seems to be doing fine…

I left them there all day because the temperature is going down again tonight…

I think the weather is going to be improving so they can all move back outside tomorrow…

blossoms…

09 Monday Sep 2019

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got this shot of the morning glories before leaving for the office…

not only can you see the bloom that opened this morning (purple) but yesterday’s one as well (pink)… even a few mandevilla blossoms are visible…

good thing because it has been raining since leaving the office…

greens…

03 Saturday Aug 2019

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had a very relaxing day…

slept in a bit… for me, lol… put out the cushions, watered the garden and had breakfast by the pond…

enjoyed all the flowers on the mandevilla and spent time with my book…

while I was reading, I looked up to see this…

the little bunny that I’ve spotted a number of times, but not been able to get a picture of… today it sat by the chair and enjoyed some greens while I took pictures…

when it got too hot to stay outside I came into the house and watched sports on tv and napped…

so sluggish that I ordered my groceries to be delivered tomorrow… really the height of laziness…

theme…

09 Sunday Jun 2019

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had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…

trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…

three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…

still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…

it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…

missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…

grown…

13 Sunday Jan 2019

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late in the fall my grandson brought in a few of the plants…

one was the mandevilla… it had grown long and through some of the bench on the deck so was very messy when it came into the house…

I ignored it until the other day… took the time to cut it back and feed it… looking forward to watching it over the next few months…

also trimmed and fed the hibiscus and Japanese maple…

I am sure they all appreciated the attention… we will see how they all do…

nice to have greenery in the house… makes it feel summery…

delicate…

21 Friday Sep 2018

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put a note in my calendar the other day so that I would remember to bring the Japanese Maple in from the garden…

doesn’t look like it was affected by the cold weather which makes me happy… will watch and see how stressed it will be from the move… it is a bit delicate and often drops all of the leaves when moved…

still have to bring in the hibiscus and mandevilla… maybe on Sunday…

right now the morning glories are wrapped all around the mandevilla, lol…