Heat wave

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:

As was this rather flamboyant tulip – Texas Flame:

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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First Globe Flowers

by Tricia

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I just noticed yesterday evening that my Globe Flowers are blooming. The light was fading so I didn’t take a photo of the flowers, but as you can see from the photo above I was able to find a picture that I took last year or the year before.

I really enjoy the Globe Flowers. Just as the Crocus is a sign to me that Spring has finally arrived, I consider Globe flowers a harbinger of summer. I believe they’ll continue blooming until Summer is just about here. As long as we don’t have a heat wave, I mean.

I doubt that there’s much chance of a heat wave coming soon though. It’s been a cool May here in Toronto. It’s just starting to warm up to normal seasonal temperatures – and I hope it stays that way. I’m tired of the cold.

How has the weather been in your area.

New Green Thumber’s –
I know there are a few of you who emailed me wanting to get on the blogroll. I’m sorry that I haven’t managed to include your sites yet. I’ve been working on a big web project this week and it’s consumed all my time. I will go through all of the requests later today and approve as many as I can. Sorry!

My tomatoes are so behind!

by Tricia

I don’t think I’m going to have many or possibly any tomatoes this year. I planted them way too late!

Normally I either grow tomatoes from seed – beginning in March, or I purchase tomato plants in May and plant them by the end of that month or in early June. This year I didn’t start any tomatoes from seed and I didn’t buy any plants until the end of June or possibly even the beginning of July.

July in this area wasn’t all that warm. I’m certain the temperatures were below normal. So the tomatoes that I planted didn’t get off to a very good start. August was very warm for the most part, in fact we had several heat waves and that might not have been good for my tomatoes either.

My tomato plants do have small green tomatoes on them, but I don’t think they’ll grow big enough to ripen before it begins to get too cool at night.

I think what I might do is bring the containers that I’m growing some of my tomatoes in, into the enclosed back porch. I probably won’t have to do that for two or three weeks, but when I do the tomatoes will be in a nice warm sunny room. Actually the back porch can get quite hot with the sun shining directly on it for a good portion of the day.

Have you ever brought tomatoes indoors to finish growing and ripening when they were behind at the end of the season?

I figure it can’t hurt to try anyway.

Last look at some flowering spring beauties

My tomatoes are so behind!

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