Chinodoxa or Glory of the Snow04.19.08

It’s been a beautiful week here in Toronto. The plants in my garden have shown their appreciation of the warm weather by growing and growing and growing some more!

The Chionodoxa, Glory of the Snow, is blooming. One day the plants were just short little green leaves, the next a few tiny buds […]

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Old canisters make great garden decor01.26.08

Grab the Photo Hunt code.
Photo Theme. Visit participants.

This weeks theme is Old Fashioned

Since this weeks theme is Old Fashioned I thought I’d show you what I call the ‘ol Milk Canister although I have a feeling it never held milk but rather coal or some other form of fuel according to the markings […]

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Lovely blue01.23.08

Wordless Wednesday

This is a photo of Johnson’s Blue Geraniums. It’s a hardy perennial geranium.

I posted about this flower recently and I said that my geraniums have been looking more purple than blue lately.
I took the photo above a in May last year. Perhaps these geraniums are bluer in the cool spring […]

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Visitors to the garden12.14.07

We had some unexpected guests in our garden earlier this week. I believe it was on Sunday morning or possibly Monday.

My husband and I were in the kitchen when he turned and said “Look, Look a Blue Jay!” and just outside the window in a window planter a lovely male Blue Jay was examining the […]

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