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deeper…

01 Friday Sep 2023

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a few days ago my grandson dug the hole deeper where the mandevilla has been residing for most of the summer… it lives in the house during the winter months and has just started to bloom…

it has also been blowing over fairly regularly and I’ve had to bungee cord it to the upright umbrella on really windy days so it wouldn’t fall over again… I had dug the hole to what I thought would work, but it wasn’t deep enough, lol…

Thursday, the wind was very strong and the mandevilla stayed put with no leaning or falling at all;-)

acclimatize…

31 Wednesday May 2023

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so far the fuchsia, mandevilla, Japanese Maple and most recently, the hibiscus, have made it outside…

the Maple went behind the waterfall and the others have moved into the shade for a few days to acclimatize to the heat and sun;-)… the mandevilla kept getting blown over so it is currently being propped up with chairs…

there is a lot more space in the living and dining rooms, lol…

winding…

28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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noticed the other day that the mandevilla has been sprouting new leaves at the top… must be sensing spring…

and they have started winding up the line that the pictures hang from…

took some time on Sunday to climb up and unravel the pieces and get them wound around the obelisk…

going to have to keep a closer eye on it to be sure it doesn’t do that again…

would have been a disaster if I had turned it within noticing, lol…

view…

20 Thursday Oct 2022

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now that the pond is empty and covered with the tarp, the camera isn’t really needed, so it came into the house…

happily, the bottom of it fit perfectly on the camera tripod…

set it up by the window where the bird feeder is attached…

this is particularly good now as the mandevilla blocks the view through the window…

looking forward to getting some great views of the guests at the feeder;-)…

unravelled…

07 Thursday Jul 2022

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on Monday morning, Hilda the Gardener came by to weed the garden…

I had dug a pot out of the shed and had purchased and put together an obelisk… nothing seems to come all made anymore, lol…

my plan was to have her take the mandevilla off the old obelisk and replant it with the new obelisk… this should make it much easier to to bring into the house and move around as needed…

the pot I had found wasn’t the right size so she had to move some coleus from a pot that would be a better fit…

then she unravelled the old one and planted it in the new pot with the obelisk…

my job was to wrap the vines around the obelisk…

once that was done she finished weeding the side garden…

it always looks wonderful after she has worked her magic;-)…

and just minutes after she left the rain started, lol…

gusts…

16 Thursday Jun 2022

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yesterday the wind came up late in the afternoon and I decided to protect a few spots…

put chairs around the obelisk on the deck so it wouldn’t fall over…

then I took a chair and propped it against the hibiscus… not only didn’t I want it to fall over, I didn’t want it to fall into the pond…

I didn’t feel that the mandevilla needed any protection so left it alone…

everything made it through fine although I have left the chair by the hibiscus as there are supposed to be strong wind gusts tonight…

transplanted…

11 Monday Oct 2021

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Hilda the Gardener came by this afternoon and cleaned up the garden… there were still flowers blooming, so I was happy that she was dumping them and I didn’t have to, lol…

she emptied all of the planters and transplanted the two butterfly bushes… the plan is to try and overwinter them in the basement… we will see if they make it…

the only plants left are the dahlias which I will remove when they die back…

it looks rather naked in the garden… and the pots in the front yard are empty now… will have to decide what to put in the one on the steps for the winter…

the mandevilla and hibiscus are still on the deck but they will likely come in tomorrow…

I’m going to cover each of them with a garbage bag and leave them for a few days… hope that deals with any bugs, lol…

mound…

25 Saturday Sep 2021

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had a great time with Hilda the Gardener this afternoon…

we discussed plans for the next month or so, and for the spring…

she moved some soil for me and I finished filling up the new raised bed…

she also brought the mandevilla up onto the deck… it will be coming into the house before too long..

she moved baby’s breath, silver mound and milkweed to what I hope will be better spots…

and removed some of the weeds in the side garden…

it always makes me happy to see the difference once she’s been here…

become…

02 Thursday Sep 2021

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three years ago my mandevilla was blooming profusely on this day… that year, the flowers began opening mid-July…

it lives in the dining room over the winter and doesn’t bloom during that period…

today I took photos of the buds on that same plant… interesting that we are a month and a half later this year…

it takes quite a long time for the buds to become flowers and I am looking forward to the blooms…

repotting…

17 Wednesday Feb 2021

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recently I had fun repotting a few plants…

used soil from a dead plant that was in the basement…

first up was the avocado… it has been looking a bit sad and after doing some research it seemed like time to increase the size of the container… good thing because it was root bound…

it is also getting leggy, and I am trying a technique to get it to bush out a bit more… we shall see…

next was the Japanese Maple… the kids brought it from BC when they moved to Ottawa so it has been in the same pot for eight years…

it took a lot of muscle to remove it, and for a few minutes I thought I’d have to cut it out, lol… no rocks, so I used coffee filters for the bottom…

it has many tiny roots and it took a knife to scarify it so that it will grow better in the new container…

finally, I planted a piece of the mandevilla which had accidentally been cut off and put into water to root…

it looks cute and we will see how it does;-)…

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