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Last look at some flowering spring beauties

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We’re currently in a heat wave here in Toronto and what was left of my tulips and other spring flowers are looking fairly pathetic right now!

Luckily the roses started blooming on Friday. Morden sunrise was the first rose to bloom as it has been the last three or four years running, however this year within an hour or two Yves Piaget had a rose bloom and then my Therese Bugnet Rose started blooming as well. Sounds like a race doesn’t it?

Other roses began blooming on Saturday. One spectacular rose that’s full of blooms is Jacques Cartier with it’s lovely perfumed pink blooms.

I did take some photos but I haven’t transferred them to my too full laptop hard drive yet.

However, in Mid May and up until a few days ago this lovely Trillium was blooming:

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As was this rather flamboyant tulip – Texas Flame:

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Isn’t that gorgeous? I must get more of these tulips for next year. I have far too few of these wild looking tulips.

I hope that everyone had a great weekend.

Thanks for your thoughts on my eye allergies. My eyes are a lot better today. I never knew eye allergies could be so painful! Let alone the difficulties it gave me with blurred vision and sensitivity to light.

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Short delay for my Green Thumb Sunday post

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Sorry gang, my GTS post is going to be delayed until sometime tomorrow. Well .. hopefully I’ll be able to post it by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

I had a bad allergic reaction earlier this afternoon after putting in my contact lense. Geez I hate these weird health problems I have. This is the third time this has happened in the last two months. I can barely see and my eyes are burning.

I thought it was a combination of being allergic to my dog, spring pollen and perhaps makeup, but now I think it’s my contact lenses. As soon as I put them in today my eyes started burning and watering and swelling. Instant severe pain.

I’m typing this with my eyes barely open. There’s no way I can search through my photos to find one for a GTS post right now, or for that matter find pics for GTS posts on Tricia’s Musings or My World.

No matter how long it takes me to make my post, please do continue to participate in Green Thumb Sunday this weekend. Just leave a message in this post if I haven’t made my GTS post to let us all know that you’ve participated.

Thanks!

Fringed orange tulips put on quite the display!

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Sorry for the delay posting this weeks GTS post. My Laptop is acting up … everything I do on it takes forever … it’s very slow … so, so much for uploading new photos! Arghhh! I emptied the recycle bin and I’m currently defraging the poor notebook – hopefully that helps.

In the meantime … my lovely orange fringed tulips are blooming. Remember I was just obsessed with them last year? They have such an eye catching fiery color that it’s hard not to become enamored of them.

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These flowers are blooming in my front flower beds and they’re putting on quite the display. They’re also taller this year than last year.

In fact, I think most of my tulips were quite a bit taller this year than in previous years. For example, these orange fringed tulips have a stem that’s at least 2.5 feet long. Might even be 3 feet high. Must have been all the snow cover we had over winter that did it.

Here’s a close up of the top of the tulip and its fringes. Don’t the fringes almost look like teeth? You could mistake this tulip for one of those Venus Flytrap type of plants if all you saw was its fringes!

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I hope you’re having a great weekend. It’s cloudy and rainy here in Toronto, but it’s warmed up in the last week, although today isn’t all that warm.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

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