peapod…

15 Wednesday Jul 2026

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had a quiet day… only outside for a little while as it was overcast and spit a fair bit…

but did get some reading in… also got to see more morning glories on the deck…

also ones that I planted on the new trellis, and flowers on more of the cucumbers there;-)… so far the morning glories have all been purple 😂…

and I spotted a number of bachelor buttons in the side garden…

and the biggest surprise was the cute little sweet pea flower, next to an actual peapod, woohoo…

things are moving along😊…

everywhere…

14 Tuesday Jul 2026

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well, this is funny… I planted morning glories everywhere around the garden…

Sunday evening I spotted a blossom on one of the volunteer plants that had grown in the planters around the deck…

this is the first one to show up🤣…

climb…

04 Saturday Jul 2026

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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🤪…

hardware…

16 Tuesday Jun 2026

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a few days ago, I planted morning glory seeds in the pallet planter box…

had some strange idea that the squirrels wouldn’t want to eat the seeds, lol…

checked it yesterday only to discover that the squirrels like to dig in the fresh soil, even if they ignored the seeds…

found a piece of hardware cloth that fit perfectly, so pinned it in…

let’s see if they can get past that;-)…

invasive…

21 Tuesday Oct 2025

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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…

pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…

I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…

nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…

final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…

still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…

shrivelled…

16 Tuesday Sep 2025

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fun with morning glories today…

as I was taking photos of this blue morning glory, a cute little western honey bee showed up looking for a snack…

happily, I got a few nice pics…

then, later in the day, the morning glories shrivelled up into themselves in a very interesting way, so took a few cool photos…

shrivelled…

30 Saturday Aug 2025

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I spent a large portion of the day reading in the garden and enjoying the flowers and fish…

as the afternoon progressed I watched the morning glories close up… it reminded me of all the days when I worked and how, by the time I got home, they were all done…

this morning I took a photo of the butterfly bench with a number of blooms on it…

currently the majority of the blooms are the large blue ones with a few smaller purple ones still popping out…

by late this afternoon they had all shrivelled up…

what a treat to be able to enjoy them from start to finish;-)…

around…

25 Monday Aug 2025

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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;-)…

beauties…

20 Wednesday Aug 2025

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this morning, when I was checking out the morning glories, I discovered this part of the vine which was growing from one side of the deck boards to the other side…