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Dream Trip

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As a gardener or nature lover, I was wondering if you have a dream vacation place that you’d love to visit some day?

One of my dream vacations would be to visit Costa Rica.

I’d enjoy taking one of the Eco-Jungle tours. As some of you might know, I am fascinated by reptiles and I’ve had several as pets over the years. Costa Rica has an abundance of exotic wildlife from reptiles, to primates, to some of the most beautiful birds you’ve ever seen. I’d love to go with my camera and see as many animals and birds as I could. The jungle and all of the unique plants within it would be amazing as well.

I found the Costa Rica Forum, recently and I think I might spend some time on it learning more about the Country and the kinds of things that I can do when I eventually take my dream vacation in Costa Rica. I will go too – believe me. I’ve been dreaming about this for at least 10 years.






The Gardening shows will be upon us soon

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Now that the active gardening season in this area is dying down – well other than all the work we still have to do to put our gardens to bed I mean – I started thinking about all the Home and Garden shows that will occur over the next 6 months.

Do you like going to those kinds of shows? There’s a huge one called Garden Blooms that’s held here in Toronto each March. I love attending that one, even though the cost of getting in is a bit expensive. If you’re really savvy when you go to these shows you can take advantage of some of the cheap promotional advertising that the various booths do to get you to buy more expensive products. You know – buy a plant and get a couple of free seed packages (often carrot seeds for some reason), Buy two plants get a third for free. Yes that kind of thing. I’ve found that if you pick some plants that are a little bit past their prime sometimes they’ll give you an extra one free or give you a little bit of a discount.

The home and Garden shows often have seminars and lectures that you can attend while you are there, free of charge. I’ve seen some of my favorite HGTV gardening personalities at some of these lectures. Next year, depending upon how I’m feeling I might get busy and grow a number of plants in the spring that I can sell to others – perhaps online. I’m hoping that while I’m attending one of these shows or one of the lectures that I might pick up some advertising tips from others that have created small businesses out of their gardening hobby.

If you go to the gardening shows what kinds of things do you buy there? I often get garden ornaments made by metal work artists, pottery figurines, a few plants or bulbs, and often some seed packages. Occasionally I’ve found items that make fun office gifts for my co-workers or friends too. The figurines, table top water falls or soothing music machines work well for those kind of gifts.

I’d love to know if you attend Home and Gardening shows? If you do, do you purchase items there, listen to lectures or just look around and get ideas for your own garden?

Garden Mums

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I finally broke down and got myself some garden Mums or chrysanthemums for our front porch about two weeks ago:

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These flowers are in a beautiful urn on my front steps. Prior to having the Mums in the urn I had a small tropical Hibiscus there, but since it’s getting cooler and cooler I brought the hibiscus in and replaced it with the mums.

In a couple of weeks I may divide the huge Mum plant and plant it in my front garden bed. What the heck, might as well see if I can get these ones to live for a few years, like I did before.

Happy Sunday!

I’d Like to welcome the new members who’ve recently joined Green thumb Sunday. We’ve had a few new people in the last two weeks or so – and there’s a couple more people who’ve expressed a desire to join in, but I haven’t heard back from them since I sent them the Green Thumb information. Who knows perhaps they will join in the fun today since they sounded eager to play.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

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