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The garden is shaping up

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Well, I finally managed to tidy up my garden and my arms have the scratches all over them to prove it!

Every rose I have has been pruned so now there are no more dead twigs standing up, visible over the new growth and blooms.

The garden looks so much better!

Chris and I went out yesterday afternoon and purchased 5 new roses, two clematis vines, three passion flower vines, a hibiscus, a blue Hydrangea and two fuchsia plants. Oh we got some more annuals as well. I guess that with all those vines, our existing cannas and jasmine plants that our garden will have a tropical feel to it this year.

My back ached each evening after I was done working in the garden but luckily felt better each morning. I thought I was going to get away without having any sore muscles but my legs are a bit stiff today. At least it doesn’t seem like I’ll be as achy as I was a month ago when I over did it in the garden!

Now I just need to get all the new plants planted – perennials and annuals, and get some mulch down too.

Does the work ever end?






Need some painting done? Try College Pro Painters

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As many of you know we’ve been slowly renovating our home on our own. It’s been an ongoing process. We got our house 6 years ago this month and we still aren’t finished!

When we first got our home we tore down a few walls and of course repaired the damage. Then we proceeded to paint the whole house on our own. We had to do this because the entire house was painted robins egg blue! It’s not a terrible color, but I certainly didn’t want my whole house that color!

Now, if we’d been smart we could have saved ourselves quite a bit of time and hired a company such as College Pro Painters to do all of our house painting. I don’t dislike house painting, but considering all the home improvement tasks I’ve done in the last 6 years I’d have to say that house painting is my least favorite.

What I like about College Pro Painters is that it’s run and operated by college students. College students working for College Pro Painters paint approximately 30,000 homes in communities throughout North America. They operate in 7 Canadian Provinces and 29 U.S. States.

By using the services of College Pro Painters you will not only not have to do a task that you might not enjoy or have time for yourself, but you’ll also be providing work for college students.

As I said earlier the company is owned and run by college students throughout North America. All of the managers are full time college students. Each year they recruit, select and train hundreds of franchise managers to deliver a quality paint job.

Now that I know about College Pro Painters I think I’ll bookmark the site so that I can contact them the next time I have some rooms to paint. I’d love to give that duty to someone else and if I can help college students earn money for their tuition by doing so all the better.

If you need some painting done visit the site and book their services. Oh and don’t forget to take a look at their job gallery so that you can see some of College Pro Painters past work.

Rose Wrestling

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I did some work in the garden yesterday. Yes I’m still trying to tidy it up and no, I haven’t planted any annuals or new perennials yet.

I did discover that some roses that I’d been hoping would recover from the one winter that I didn’t do winter protection have died. I’m sad to report that the lovely love and Peace is gone. So is the monster rose I talked about a lot last year – Antique 89. Zepherine Drouhn and Adriana didn’t make it either. So sad. I’ll have to see if I can find good replacements for these roses. I definitely want to get love and peace again though!

As I was saying on Tricia’s Musings my yard is full of blooms! Rose blooms. Oh and rose scent, lovely lovely rose perfume.

As I worked under the largest rose – 8 foot tall William Baffin (more like a tree!) it’s petals rained down on me. I was literally covered in rose petals at one point! How often can one say that?

I managed to tidy up and trim a number of roses. Lots of dead tips and dried out branches needed to be removed. The roses of course grew and bloomed around the unsightly dead twigs. My arms are now covered in scratches and I’ve probably still got a few thorns stuck in my fingers, hands and arms!

Oh yes, my back is aching too. I don’t get outside enough these days so I think over doing it just hits my back first when I do get out to the garden to work.

That’s what I get for rose wrestling!

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