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dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…

next they went into the dehydrator to dry…

took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…

hope the dragon likes them…

holler…

14 Tuesday May 2024

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for Mother’s Day I got four beautiful hanging baskets;-)… so far they have been going into the garage on cooler nights…

two are purple and white petunias…

the other two have white petunias and (maybe) lantana in them…

it is lovely to have flowers all over the garden…

and the morning glories are popping up;-)…

the garden is beginning to holler spring…

petunias…

29 Monday May 2023

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on Saturday brought out the table and worked on filling the planters that go around the deck…

four of the six were filled with purple and white petunias and alyssum…

the two in the centre have pansies, lobelia and alyssum…

it was fun and I enjoyed the time…

there are still three on the north side that need something… after all these years I still haven’t found just the right plants that live in shade and are happy in a planter…

hummingbird…

03 Saturday Sep 2022

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had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…

I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…

for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…

it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…

my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…

I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…

how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…

available…

21 Tuesday May 2019

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went to look at what plants were available in the stores on Sunday…

it is too soon to do any planting so my goal was to see what is out there…

but then I bought a few things…

picked up a flat of white alyssum and one of purple lobelia… I’ve used these for a number of years in the planters around the deck… the colour and scent add to the peaceful feeling in the garden…

then I chose a basket of midnight stars petunias… petunias have not been one of my favourites, but the flowers on this plant are amazing… this will go into the planter right outside the front door…

finally, a hanging basket of fuchsia, red and purple, which will hang close to the hot tub…

considering that I wasn’t going to buy anything, I guess I did well to stop when I did, lol…