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flowerbed…

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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Hilda the Gardener spent a few hours on Wednesday afternoon tidying up the garden…

now that the poppies are finished blooming, she removed the ones that were in the walkway and cut back the ones in the flowerbed…

the other plants in that bed are visible and will likely spread out a bit more…

she also removed the lily of the valley from a section of the side garden…

the columbine are taking over but it looks fabulous… and the peas are moving up the arch at an astounding speed…

everything is doing well, including the clover and grass that we put down a few weeks ago…

I will be very happy when I don’t have to water it every day, lol…

train…

11 Wednesday Jun 2025

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the clematises are both doing well…

the one on the deck worried me for a while because all the flowers appeared to die off at once… I was concerned that all the rain was too much for it, but now it has begun to bloom again, yay…

the one in the driveway opened its first bloom nearly a week ago, and now there are many more buds opening;-)…

I think I need to train it a bit better so that it stays closer to the trellis…

something to work toward, lol…

trim…

05 Thursday Jun 2025

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walked over to Ultracuts for a trim and on the way spotted a plant that had not been put into the soil in one of the big city planters…

I didn’t want to arrive at the salon with dirty hands so I decided to wait until I was on the way home…

when I did arrive back at the planter, it was clear that the plant had not been planted as it was just laying on the soil… I had wondered if a critter had maybe pulled it out of its spot…

I dug a hole and popped it in… hope it is happy now…

gunk…

03 Tuesday Jun 2025

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did some work on the small pond pumps, which are used to move the water in the bathtub pond and add more oxygen in the main pond…

climbed into the pond and brought the pump onto the edge of the deck and cleaned out all the gunk that was in it and then put it back into the pond…

brought up the second pump and after climbing into the bathtub pond, got it set in the correct spot so it wouldn’t send the water out of the pond… then it was turned on and that pond was topped up…

now there won’t be any issues with mosquitoes and I’m going to add a few more plants to that one…

the garden is coming along nicely…

sprouting…

02 Monday Jun 2025

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quite awhile ago the last of the plants made their way into the garden, either in pots, or the ground…

I’ve been watching daily to see if things are sprouting out of the planters… so far, three of the dahlias have popped up, but one has not, and it was the one I was most looking forward to, lol…

the strawberry that had gone into the ground in the fall has moved into a pot and has quite a few blossoms on it… as well as the beginnings of berries…

I painted rocks red to hopefully keep the birds from eating the berries before we get to them…

apparently the birds will go for the red rocks and decide that red things aren’t worth it, lol…

acclimate…

31 Saturday May 2025

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I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…

first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…

next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…

orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…

brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…

when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…

the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…

preparation…

29 Thursday May 2025

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the pond was filled and running for just over a week in preparation for the fish…

recently I had to climb in to place the water lily and sort out a problem with the second pump which wasn’t working…

took a few tries, but eventually it got going…

the water temp was really cold and when I got out my legs were bright red, lol…

I also topped up the water as it continues to leak a bit…

arborist…

28 Wednesday May 2025

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had a surprise visit to The Leaf last week…

I was supposed to meet my adventure buddy for a walk around the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was cold and windy and I may not have had the warmest clothes on, lol…

I walked over and found a tree trunk down across the path between the walking bridge and the entrance to the Gardens…

reported it to one of the gardeners who was working close to the entrance and they were going to notify the arborist…

once we met up, we decided to walk around The Leaf instead;-)… got the tickets online as we drove over and headed in…

it looked as though the gardeners had done a big pruning job and made a bit of space around the Tropical Biome… views of the water had been trimmed up nicely…

I often take photos of the same things, lol…

fun time, as always;-)…

impatiens…

22 Thursday May 2025

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drove out to Shelmerdine last Friday, to pick up a water lily for the pond, and may have picked up a few other items, lol…

I picked up two different impatiens plants which I am going to put into the pond;-)…

also found a beautiful spiral begonia…

I found a variety of morning glory seeds, as well as some for cucumbers and beans…

once home they went into the garage because the temperature was threatening to go to 0°C…

and then I moved all the plants waiting to be planted into the garage…

found a small pail and covered the tomato which had already been planted…

since then the plants have all been moved outside and are doing well;-)…