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Wild flowers and berries

by Tricia

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Last week Chris and I took our dog to one of our cities (Toronto) beautiful parks for a nice long walk outdoors.

Our dog had a ball running around in the off leash areas and uhm … rolling in mud! and we had a nice time watching her, talking to another dog owner (who’s dog played with Midnight during our hike) and simply enjoying our surroundings.

The trees are only just starting to change color here in Toronto, so I mainly focused on talking pictures of wild flowers as we walked.

I came across these flowers that I think look quite bit like my perennial Asters, but I’m really not sure what kind of flowers they are:

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They’re pretty aren’t they?

I also came across a small tree (maybe 10 feet tall?) that had these lovely black berry clusters growing among the leaves. I’ve seen this before but I cannot remember what this tree is called. Any ideas?

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The rich black berries are solid looking with a shiny outer skin. The berries are probably just a little bigger than your baby finger nail .. maybe the size of your ring fingers nail?

The clusters of berries looked very pretty in the tree among the leaves. They’re probably not edible though.

I have more pictures from our walk through Taylor creek park on Tricia’s Musings and My World if you’d like to see more flowers and some sumac’s turning red.






Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Pets and Wildlife, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: black_berries, dog, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hike, leaves, mud, park, pretty, tree, walk, wild_flowers

Lovely New York Asters

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My perennial New York Asters are in full bloom and they are putting on a spectacular display as usual.

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The bee’s can’t help but visit the small purple flowers to collect as much pollen as they can either.

I actually took this photo last year around this time. The weather’s been cool and the skies have been cloudy all week – not ideal picture taking conditions. Hopefully today or tomorrow I can get out in the garden and take a lot of pictures. The roses are pretty much all in bloom again, probably the last blooms of the season for many … so I’ve got to get those pictures soon!

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Filed Under: Blooming today, Green Thumb Sunday, Perennials, Photography Tagged With: asters, autumn, bees, blooms, delicate, fall, flower, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, Lovely, New_York_Asters, perennial, purple

Climbing Westerland Rose

by Tricia

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Can you believe it?

I think I’m actually starting to run out of new pictures for my Green Thumb Sunday posts! (it doesn’t help that I do GTS on three blogs either).

I just don’t seem to have the variety of photos in stock that I normally do.

Perhaps it was all that rain this year, keeping me from getting outside and taking photos of my plants in different stages … or mucking up my plants so much that I didn’t want to take pictures! LOL

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This is a beauty from earlier in the summer. It’s a Westerland climbing rose. It looks like it’s just beginning to develop buds again, so I’m sure it will be flush with blooms by the end of September .. and oh what blooms they are! This is a gorgeous rose with a heavenly scent.

Hmmm today is supposed to be fairly nice .. I think I’ll try to get out and take some new photos. Gotta store some up for winter GTS posts!

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Filed Under: Garden Buzz, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, rose Tagged With: camera, Climbing_Westerland, damaged, gorgeous, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, heavenly, photos, pictures, plants, pretty, rainy, rose, scent, weather

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