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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…

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…

lizard…

17 Friday Oct 2025

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my housemate has been preparing for over a month for a pet bearded dragon…

he picked up a large glass enclosure which he then adapted (a lot) for the lizard to live in…

it took a great deal of thought and ingenuity to get the tank the way he wanted it…

once it was done, he moved the tank to its location and added in bricks, rocks, plants, driftwood, and a number of lights…

everything was ready about four hours before the lizard arrived;-)…

time…

10 Friday Oct 2025

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well, it took lots more time, and water, to get the houseplants watered Wednesday morning, lol…

seems there are a great many of them;-)…

I’ve had to rearrange some of the ones that are now in the window so that I still have a good view of the bird feeders…

especially these days as the birds prepare for migration and are very busy getting their meals…

thriving…

06 Monday Oct 2025

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yesterday, as I was reorganizing the plants that have come in from outside, my housemate helped me with the monstera plant…

he brought it with him when he moved into the basement and had it down there for a while, but had to move it to the main floor as it wasn’t thriving…

It isn’t my favourite plant, but when all the plants were being moved around, we trimmed it and attached it to a pole and it looks much better…

in the same corner, I put one of the ferns that had been in the garden and was much happier than when it went outside… hope it continues to thrive there;-)…

lantana…

05 Sunday Oct 2025

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began the process of bringing in the plants for the winter…

I have my usual ones, the mandevilla, hibiscus, lemon tree, and Japanese Maple…

I am also bringing in some additions… the new purple hibiscus, bacopa, a couple of begonias, silver falls, a dahlia, and lantana… we’ll see how they do, and where I am going to put them…

then there are the small Japanese maple and sapling that my housemate plans to make into bonsai, lol…

I have tried a setup in the window and will see how I like it;-)…

still have to find places for a few more;-)…

swag…

20 Saturday Sep 2025

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I’ve been enjoying taking any training that I can to learn more about the Leaf and Zoo…

spent an hour Thursday morning to see how volunteering at the front of the zoo works…

afterwards I went to Volunteer Services and collected all the swag I have earned over the last four months…

what a haul;-)…

I was also able to purchase a volunteer hoodie which is going to be well used as the weather gets colder…

I’m thinking the entrance area will be chilly with the doors opening and closing all day…

lunch out, and then a shift at The Leaf…

it was a rather full day…

Enchanted…

13 Saturday Sep 2025

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spent time at The Leaf Thursday afternoon letting guests know that the biomes were closed until Friday…

happy to spot a gorgeous flower on the tall magnolia;-)…

there were two of us, so we had opportunities to take turns checking out how the work on the Enchanted Forest display was going… the gardeners were moving at warp speed to finish up…

I also had a lovely chat with one of the people from the Bonsai Winnipeg group as they waited to place their tree in the new display…

then, in the evening, my grandson and I attended a members-only viewing of the display… I was especially excited because I was able to bring a buddy… as everyone who knows me knows, I don’t like to do things on my own;-(…

what fun…

terrace…

28 Thursday Aug 2025

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this warm sunny morning, as I was walking up to the Leaf, I took a quick walk through the new water terrace which is located just outside the front area, between the Leaf and the Gardens at the Leaf…

I am looking forward to a longer visit next time I am there…

there are no fish, but the frogs have already made it their home;-)…

and look at the size of these pumpkins in the Kitchen Garden;-)…

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;-)…