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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Signs of life in the garden04.06.08

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I’ve very pleased to announce that the snow that covered my garden beds for most of the winter is now almost gone and that there are signs of life in the form of green sprouts coming up everywhere in the garden and even my lawn.

I saw our first crocus, a white one, in a sunny […]

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I’m looking forward to the first greens of spring03.16.08

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In honour of both St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and Spring (March 20th) falling on the same week I thought it was appropriate that I post some photos of the type of greenery and flower buds that I hope to begin seeing sometime in the next two to three weeks.

Our gardens are still covered in […]

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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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