Archive for the 'canada' Category
You know Autumn is closing in when you see lovely flower seed heads like this. I came across this lovely seedhead when I was out walking my dog with my husband almost two weeks ago on our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend here in Toronto. We were at a local park that we often go to for [...]
This is my Black Labrador Retriever, Midnight .. having fun at the beach. She just loves to play and swim in the water, even if it’s freezing cold! She also loves it when we throw balls or sticks for her to fetch … loves it so much that she’ll stand in the water and literally [...]
I think this red tulip is a bit of an exhibitionist. There’s a clump of red tulips in the oval flower bed in the center of my garden and each year when they come up they look like nice normal tulips … for about a day … then they open their petals wide wide wide [...]
It seems to me that Helebores love their shade so much that even their flowers try to shy away from the light. I only have one Helebore plant left (I did have three once but two seem to have died out) and it’s flowers, when they bloom in late March or April, always hang their [...]
My back yard garden is divided into two distinct areas – one small patio just large enough to fit a nice patio table that seats four comfortably, and the back garden area lined with 3 to 4 foot deep garden beds along the edges, with grass in the center of the back garden area. Between [...]
These beautiful blue Glories of the snow are pretty much done blooming now. They came up so early this year … like near the beginning of April instead of mid to late April like they usually do! I have several clumps of these flowers in white, pink and this lovely blue. Each year the clumps [...]
I took this photo of some of my Pink Hyacinth when it was just getting ready to bloom. This was mid-April … of course it’s been blooming it’s pretty little head off and smelling up my yard with it’s heady perfume for about two weeks now. I have several clusters of Hyacinth growing in my [...]
All of the spring flowers in my garden are coming up earlier than they usually do! My crocuses came up on March 15th and bloomed until about the middle of April. They usually come up toward the end of March, but we had a beautiful winter this year with much warmer than average temperatures (above [...]
This is the time of year when I begin to long for summer. I guess I have the winter blahs (having a cold to go with it doesn’t help!). I can’t complain too much about this winter. It’s been rather spring like for the most part with only a few extremely cold days so far [...]
I took this photo in September when the mums were in full bloom. Aren’t they lovely? I used to not really like mums, not until I had a garden of my own anyway. They do make a nice fall flower as they add some color to the garden as most of the other plants begin [...]
