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Deer getting take-out food

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I know that some of my fellow gardeners probably feel like their garden is an open buffet for wildlife pests such as deer and rabbits … apparently deer aren’t only hitting local gardens. Nope, they’ve started trying to get take-out from local businesses too!

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I wonder if they ordered a salad and a cocktail?

BTW – sorry that I haven’t posted a Green thumb post or any updates lately. I’ve been getting my gardening done (planting young plants and seeds etc), but I’ve also been very sick with Crohn’s so I haven’t felt up to writing.  Sorry!  I’ll be making some updates soon.






It won’t be long until Spring

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I can’t help longing for spring. I’m sure most cold climate gardeners know how I feel.

Well the good news is that in only two months it will officially be Spring. Yeah, the weather won’t be so great in late March, not here in Toronto anyway, but by then we’ll know that we won’t have to wait much longer for nice weather and the first flowers of spring!

The first flowers that appear in my garden … well actually in my lawn since that’s where I planted them, are the Crocus’. They usually appear during the last week of March – often March 26th for some reason. Sometimes there’s still some snow on the lawn, but the crocus’ break through and bloom their lovely hopeful signs of spring.

Another flower that I look forward to seeing each spring is this lovely Fringed tulip:

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These fringed tulips are late spring bloomers though … I often have to wait until early June before they show off their lovely colorful blooms. By then of course I’m starting to anticipate summer flowers.Plus if it’s really warm in early June the beautiful blooms that I enjoy seeing don’t last as long as they should.

What spring flowers do you look forward to seeing in the near future?

Oh … update on that one Amaryllis that is about to bloom … I’ve been taking pictures of the flower bud as it separates into four distinct flower buds. I suspect we’ll have four huge blooms on the stock in a day or two. I’ll post the series of Amaryllis bud to bloom pictures in next weeks Green Thumb post.

Picturesque columbines

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My columbines are absolutely gorgeous this year! I took this photo on June 1st and the columbines (Aquilegia) are still blooming and look just as lovely as they did two weeks ago. I can’t believe they survived the heatwave we had last week, nor the storms we’ve had this weekend … but they did.

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I have a beautiful close up of these flowers on my photo blog right now if you’d like to take a look at a really gorgeous photo.

It’s been raining on and off this weekend. Actually we’ve had some mighty fierce thunder storms (Friday and today). I’m hoping that it will clear up soon as I have a few flats of annuals to plant and now that my roses are heavy with blooms they’re drooping – some branches are even touching the ground – so I must get out and stake the roses.

I’m also hoping that it will clear up enough that I can take some photos, because as I said most of my roses are in bloom and it’s just a delightful sight.

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