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Spring – It’s here, it’s here!

March 22, 2009 by Tricia

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Can you tell that I’m happy that Spring has finally arrived? Ok, so it’s felt like Spring here pretty much since mid-February with the exception of a few very cold days here and there, but now it’s actually starting to look like Spring outdoors.

I just spotted my first crocus in my lawn earlier today. That, to me, is always my first true sign that Spring has truly arrived.

Purple Crocus

I used to have snowdrops in my garden as well, but they’ve either died out or they are blooming under the leaves that cover my garden beds. LOL However I do know that there are Snowdrops blooming in the area because my husband spotted some earlier today while out walking the dog.

My chives are also up and several of my other plants appear to be coming back to life as they are greening up and developing leaf buds.

Hmmm … I wonder if Raccoons like chives? I’ve spotted a raccoon in our backyard several times over the last week (the back yard security light goes on whenever there’s movement out there), and the raccoon is always near the Chives and where the first crocus has come up whenever I see it. Of course I scare it out of the yard … but I wonder if it’s nibbled on the chives?

I guess it won’t be long now before flowers like these tiny irises, hyacinth, muscari, tulips and other plants start to make an appearance!

Purple Iris

I think I might do a little yardwork today if I can get this pesky high fever I have to go down.





Filed Under: Canada, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: buds, crocus, flowers, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hyacinth, iris, leaves, Muscari, nice_weather, snowdrops, spring, weather, yardwork

A few more weeks and my garden will come alive with flowers

March 8, 2009 by Tricia

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Ok Spring I’m ready and waiting for you … where are you? Oh sure, we’ve had a taste of Spring this week with above normal temperatures, but true Spring is still a bit away. I’m tired of waiting!

Oh well … at least it won’t be all that long before I start to see beauties like these lovely purple fringed tulips coming up in my garden …

Purple fringed tulips

Aren’t they gorgeous? These are truly one of my favorite tulips that I grow.

Another spring beauty is the Chionodoxa. They produce lovely small flowers and each year the bulbs seem to spread beneath the soil so the clumps of Chionodoxa that I grow get larger and larger.

Chionodoxa

I have pink, blue, white and purple Chionodoxa in both the front and back flower beds. If I didn’t grow so many other lovely flowers I’d almost be happy enough to have these fill my flower beds each spring.

Speaking of Spring … for those of you in North America – remember it’s day light savings time! So don’t forget to set your clocks an hour ahead or else you might end up being late for work on Monday! Oh and it’s also a great time to check your fire alarm batteries!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bulbs, Chionodoxa, daylight_savings_time, fire_alarms, flowers, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, month, soil, spring, spring_flowers, tulips, warm, weather

One of my favorite Spring flowers

March 1, 2009 by Tricia

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We still have about a month to go before Spring will finally be here, and given the weather we’ve had the last two days it might feel like a long wait! With the windchill factored in it’s currently -16 Celsius or only 3.2 F! Brrrr

Since Spring will soon be here and I’m trying my best to ignore the cold I thought I’d show you one of my favorite spring flowers. Now I think most people think of tulips when they think of Spring. I do too, but for me … Peonies are probably my favorite Spring flowers! Too bad I have to wait until late Spring -almost summer before mine will bloom!

Here’s a lovely almost white Peony called Peony Pecher:

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This peony produces large double petaled blooms each June. They are just a little smaller than a bread plate oh and the smell … they have that lovely light peony scent. I just adore these flowers!

Last year I planted three new peony plants in my garden. One is in the front flower bed and two are in my planted boulevard – so if they survived the winter I’ll have 6 peony plants in total! Hopefully I’ll also have an abundance of flowers!

Do you grow Peonies?

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: adore, beautiful, double_petaled, favorite, large, lovely, peony, peony_pecher, scent, spring, spring_flowers, tulips

The snow is back

February 22, 2009 by Tricia

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We’ve had such nice weather for most of February.

It warmed up to above seasonal temperatures for several days making it seem very spring like and all the snow that we had melted away. Unfortunately that’s over now … it’s snowing like crazy this weekend so all we’ll see for a while is white when we look outdoors.

I think for today I’ll remember how nice and warm summer is by enjoying this lovely Cactus Dahlia:

Dahlia

How’s the weather in your area?

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: cold, dahlia, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, snow, snowing, Summer, winter

Flowers all year round indoors and out

February 15, 2009 by Tricia

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Some how this year I’ve managed to have flowers almost continuously, by this I mean I’ve had flowers either in my yard or in my house since last spring!

At the moment my kitchen is the bloom factory. If you’re a neat freak you wouldn’t like the look of our kitchen table as it has at least 10 plants on it, but at least that only happens in the winter. During the warmer months most of my plants go outdoors or onto our enclosed porches.

We have two types of Orchids blooming (another just finished it’s flowering), a small hibiscus that puts out one or two flowers every few days, one Amaryllis that just finished blooming and when my husband was in the hospital the nurses that cared for him gave him an African Violet plant – in bloom.

Our Thanksgiving and Christmas Cactus’ keep putting out the occasional bloom as well … so as I said we’ve had flowers surrounding us for a year now! That’s a first.

The Orchids are just lovely right now.

Purple Orchid 5

This purple one is one of my favorites. I love it’s intricate pattern. I almost looks like a butterfly to me.

These white Orchids are new. I bought the plant in the first week of January and it’s still blooming!

White Orchids 18

I love how the flowers all line up in a delicate row like that.

Oh … here’s a shot of my messy plant covered table … the plant with the weird spider like things is an orchid that’s producing babies. Those spider leg like things are air roots and the green leaves are new plants growing high above the base of the main plant.

table full of plants

Do you have any flowers blooming in your house right now? Even some store bought Valentine flowers?

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Amaryllis, blooming, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hibiscus, indoors, orchids, plants, year_round

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