Garden heading towards spring peak05.18.08

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I think my garden is building up to it’s spring peak. More tulips have come up and developed buds, the German and Siberian iris’ are growing strong and should send up flower spikes soon.The primrose (this is primrose isn’t it) is blooming -

The azaleas have developed buds and one of them has started to [...]



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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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My twisted garden04.12.08

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Isn’t it funny how strange some plants look either as they are developing or after they’ve bloomed?
The photo above is of a seed head from a Hybrid Seiboldiana Clematis.
I grow several types of clematis and this is the only one with a [...]



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Spring tasks to get your garden growing03.28.08

It’s been a long winter
Many of us in the North experienced one of the snowiest winters that we’ve had in years. Cool temperatures are continuing even though it’s already officially spring. I’d say that this year we’re probably going to be two or three weeks behind on our normal Spring gardening tasks.

Normally the [...]



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