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sprouts…

30 Tuesday Mar 2021

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more time working on/in the garden…

changed tables in the living room window to make space to be able to put more of the deck planters in the sunlight… once they warm up, I am going to fill them with alyssum and morning glories…

kind of exciting… I also moved the big planter onto the front step and will put it back into the flower bed in a few days when the weather is warmer…

filled the other planters with datura and morning glories and planted a few additional tomatoes… I’ve moved the tomatoes onto the dining room window ledge…

it will be interesting to see what sprouts…

cleaned…

19 Friday Mar 2021

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had a lovely afternoon on the deck yesterday…

removed one of the feeding saucers and cleaned the table… that took a long time but it looked shiny when I was done… looks ready for a meal with the boys;-)…

then I sat in the sunshine and read… so lovely…

at the end of the afternoon I brought in the planters which I am going to use to start some seedlings…

looking forward to getting the planting started…

seedlings…

20 Wednesday May 2020

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so excited this morning to discover these two little seedlings… they are morning glories…

once I’ve put out the cushions for the furniture, I walk around and check all of the pots that I have planted…

I’d been worried that the morning glories weren’t going to come up… at the same time I also planted some datura in pots in the front yard and they haven’t come through yet… but now I am hopeful that they still might…

we’ve grown both morning glories and daturas for many years… I am looking forward to seeing some this year, particularly as the garden may be the only place I travel to, lol…

most of the dahlias and tomatoes are doing nicely… it looks like a couple of the dahlias aren’t going to make it…

waiting for plants from Shelmerdine to arrive and make their way into the ground… they were a birthday gift from the kids in Ottawa…

I enjoy planting pots and planters but hope to have the items that are going into the ground planted by Hilda the Gardener;-)…

barrel…

03 Friday Aug 2018

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out into the garden this morning…

watered all the planters and baskets using water from the new water barrel…

watering by hand works much better than using the hose as I am able to see exactly how much each plant is getting…

also topped up the pond… seems like it needs filling about every third day…

this basket is doing the best… some of the others are a bit sad… the weather has been odd with boiling hot days and then really cool ones…

we won’t talk about the inconsistent watering, lol…

planters…

20 Monday Nov 2017

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last night my grandson drove me over to the grocery store where we picked up some planters and baskets filled with Christmas greenery and berries…

hard to tell from the photo I took this morning, but the planters have a wooden reindeer head in them… they are quite cute…

the baskets got plopped into two of the planters in front of the living room window…

may have to go back and pick up another couple of the baskets…

waiting for a fancy swag to arrive to hang on the front door from a fundraiser the oldest grandson is participating in…

outside decorating done;-)… although I do have an expert coming and she may have other ideas, lol…

I am laying in my bed listening to the wind whipping a loose piece of siding against the side of the house… it is very loud and seems to be never ending… wondering if I am going to get any sleep tonight…

planter…

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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great fun tonight… quick trip to Shelmerdine to pick up greenery to make a planter for the front step…

here’s the designer and the container before she started work… then she spent an hour using her magic fingers…

and here’s the gorgeous result…

looking forward to taking a few shots on the front steps in the daylight…

seeds…

05 Sunday Jun 2016

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spent a good portion of the day in the garden… mowed the backyard and managed to have two meals outside…

also did a bit of planting…


worked on some planters at the front…


this one is still in the backyard and I am going to have to figure out how to get it to the front… it is really heavy, lol…

filled and hung my new feeder at the front of the house…


looks beautiful…

this little guy was in the pond…


it snowed elm seeds all day long…

the sky is getting a bit darker as the evening progresses… hope it doesn’t rain…

growing…

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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last night I watered the garden while waiting for supper…

the hydrangeas all have flowers and my daughter is rather jealous… hers are not doing anything…

20140805-214810-78490134.jpgam quite excited with the tomatoes which are turning colour…

20140805-214954-78594952.jpgstill really happy with my shrinking hose as my hands stay clean and my arms aren’t worn out from watering the baskets…

the planters at the front door look great…

20140805-215345-78825299.jpgconsidering my lack of attention to the garden, it really is amazing how well it is doing…

surprised…

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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was a long day at work and I had to stop and pick up some groceries for a meeting tomorrow, so by the time I drove up to the house I was feeling tired and a bit sorry for myself…

as I turned into the driveway the flower beds jumped out at me…

20140624-203504-74104910.jpgI realized that my son-in-law had been over and dug out most of the grass that was filling the bed…

20140624-203744-74264414.jpgthis showed what it looked like when we put the planters into it, and that was weeks ago…

I’ve been able to see the grass moving from the living room while sitting down, lol…

apparently my irises have been blooming and I didn’t even know it…

besides the two flower beds he also mowed the grass in the front yard and the back garden…

perked me right up…

now I have to decide whether to just put down newspaper over the bed and around the plants in it or dig up the five or six plants I want to keep and put them into pots on top of the newspaper which will kill the grass under it…

hmmmmm…

growth…

20 Friday Jun 2014

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I am very happy it is Friday…

seems like it has been a long week… think that last weekend was a huge emotional drain on my mind and body and I am not yet recovered…

then I was out for two evenings and had the little flood in the basement…

looking forward to some quiet time and lots of recuperating…

this morning I took this shot of the planters on the front step…

20140620-212642-77202579.jpghere’s the shot I took on June 8…

20140620-212907-77347139.jpgamazing how much they have grown in just under two weeks…

much easier to see the growth in the garden, than in oneself…