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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…

consulting…

15 Thursday May 2025

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Sunday was a glorious day… I was up early and put out all the cushions for the first time this year…

on Saturday all the umbrellas, hanging chair and planters made it out of the shed, so it is starting to look like a lovely place to be…

spent the majority of the day outside moving around, finding the shady spots…

eventually I ended up on the main deck…

after a very nice dinner of steak, baked potato and mushrooms, all cooked on the barbecue, I just couldn’t go inside, so I sat in the dark and enjoyed listening to the leaves as the warm wind blew and contemplated what else might happen in the garden…

throughout the day, had fun consulting with my kids in Ottawa about plants for their garden and chatted with them a few times… besides being Mother’s Day, it was also their anniversary;-)…

muscles…

06 Tuesday May 2025

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moved the big umbrella from the garden onto the deck so that we would have shade for our gathering yesterday…

the weather station was suggesting it would be 30°C… which was a bit crazy as it had been maybe 23 or so the last few days…

used lots of muscles, but it was worth it as there was shade for everyone, although there was a bit of moving chairs around to stay out of the sun… and it was hot…

not sure if it will stay on the deck or not;-)…

sail…

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to get another umbrella on the back deck to provide shade mid afternoon without a whole out of success…

I have an old umbrella, but no pole or stand for it… we went looking but weren’t able to find anything that might work and keep it stable…

in the end we purchased a 3-point sail… we also picked up a lot of rope to be able to connect the corners…

after considerable trial and error, we got it up and I think it is going to work quite well…

and it looks good;-)…

develops…

06 Saturday Jul 2024

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this morning I spent some time in the veggie garden… formerly known as the shade garden, lol…

there are peas starting to fill out the pods and the bean and cucumber plants are stretching up to the arch…

I’ve been doing some reading on tomato plants and decided to trim back the bottom leaves to give them more air…

I was surprised at how many branches were removed…

I guess we will see what develops…

hiatus…

31 Friday May 2024

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this morning the mandevilla and Japanese Maple made their annual hiatus to the garden…

the mandevilla is probably four or five years old… it started out on the deck and has come in each fall and lived over the winter in the living room like any other houseplant… it has grown quite tall, but always loses a ton of leaves so I spent time pulling off many brown crispy dead bits, lol… it now has a very tall obelisk in the pot and most of the growth is at the top… looks good now that it is cleaned up…

the Japanese Maple travelled by car from Vancouver island about ten years ago, when it made the trip with the kids as they moved from Courtenay to Ottawa, with a short visit here on their way… it had done well over that time but hasn’t grown much… today I repotted it in a bigger container with some fresh soil… hope it likes it;-)…

they will be in the shade for a few days and then move to their summer locations…

northwest…

09 Thursday May 2024

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enjoying every beautiful minute I can manage in the garden…

yesterday, I dug pots out of the shed and planted the dahlias… four pots that go along with the one I planted last week…

then I set up a pallet with a plant hanging stand and added the lounge chair in the area to the northwest of the pond… I am hoping this will be a good napping area…

after I put out the cushions, I repaired one umbrella and put the rest up, to see when they provided shade…

after all that I had some lunch and read for awhile, testing out various sitting spots…

finally, I brought more pots out from the shed and set them up in various spots in the garden to be filled with plants;-)…

throughout the afternoon I noted where the chairs got the best shade…

while I was working a bunny came by and snacked on dropped birdseed and many white-crowned sparrows stopped by for drinks and baths…

what a delightful day…

nectar…

02 Saturday Sep 2023

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had a wonderful day Monday…

it was overcast but I put out all the cushions and set up the chairs for the afternoon gathering with my buddies…

then I sat quietly in the garden as a sweet little hummingbird flew around gathering nectar from a few flowers… it particularly liked one of the hanging baskets that has deep purple flowers… it came and went a number of times before heading off to its next destination…

of course I didn’t have the camera out so the photos I got with my phone were pretty bad, lol…

after lunch my friends arrived and we had a great visit together… these days I make suntea and we always have pistachios as a snack, maybe with some chocolate;-)…

once everyone left, I followed the shade around the garden, enjoyed my book and the visit from one of my bunny friends…

I am certainly savouring these beautiful days in the garden…

rigged…

03 Thursday Aug 2023

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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spent a bit of time getting all the chairs out, as well as cushions, for our Monday afternoon gathering…

even rigged an umbrella over an additional chair to be sure everyone had shade…

before that, I used the same umbrella to provide a bit of shade for the creeping thyme that we moved on Saturday… hoping it likes the new spot and starts to cover a bit more ground, lol…

rearranged…

08 Friday Jul 2022

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moved a few planters and a chair on the lower deck…

haven’t decided if I like it or not…

and then this morning I rearranged again… I put the dahlia by the door and moved the begonias and columbine to the back of the garden where they will get the necessary shade… I may end up moving that planter beside the rain barrel, but will need help to get it up there…

guess I will live with it for a while and see…

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