Hard to believe spring will ever come03.09.08

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It’s hard to believe that in only a month and a half or so I’ll be looking at scenes like this in my front yard. The picture above is of tulips in bloom beside the previous autumns dried up Sedum flower heads. I’d neglected to remove the dried Sedum flowers in the […]

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Yellow rose02.17.08

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This rose is Graham Thomas. It’s an English Rose by David Austin. Isn’t it lovely?

This rose grows to close to 8 feet or so each year, even after a bad winter when I’ve had to prune the rose bush down to a foot or less in the spring. It’s very resilient. It […]

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Thunder and lightening in February02.06.08

We’ve been having some pretty wild weather here in Toronto since yesterday evening. This is part of the storm that caused major tornadoes in the US.
It started out with hail and or icy snow pellets at about 9 pm or so Tuesday evening and then I think it turned to snow. […]

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My snowy garden01.27.08

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Well I can’t say that my garden looks like that much right now, but some of the plants that have a dusting of snow look lovely.
The snow dusted branches above are from my rose Theresa Bugnet. It’s a very hardy rugosa type rose. It’s branches turn a deep crimson red in the winter […]

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