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Yellow rose

by Tricia

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This rose is Graham Thomas. It’s an English Rose by David Austin. Isn’t it lovely?

This rose grows to close to 8 feet or so each year, even after a bad winter when I’ve had to prune the rose bush down to a foot or less in the spring. It’s very resilient. It also blooms abundantly each season. I’d say once it gets going the blooms come almost continuously actually!

Sorry I’m so late with my GTS post this week. My mouse died yesterday and I didn’t get a new one until this afternoon … plus we’ve had major storms here again too. Ice storms and lots of rain and that’s affected my internet connection. As a result of all of that I wasn’t able to post until now. I sure hope my internet connection stays up this time.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, rose Tagged With: bloom, blooms, David Austin, English Rose, garden, gardener, gardeners, Graham Thomas, green, Green Thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, grow, GTS, height, ice storm, internet, photo, plant, post, prune, rain, rose, rose bush, spring, storm, winter

Thunder and lightening in February

by Tricia

We’ve been having some pretty wild weather here in Toronto since yesterday evening. This is part of the storm that caused major tornadoes in the US.

It started out with hail and or icy snow pellets at about 9 pm or so Tuesday evening and then I think it turned to snow. It snowed through the night and so far all day today! I think we’re supposed to have a total of 15 inches of snow/ice by the time the storm is over.

Now and ice storm is bad enough but this one’s been accompanied by lightening and thunder! I think we’ve had lightening and thunder since about 5 pm today.

That’s so weird. A thunder storm with snow in February. Very strange indeed.

My garden is immersed in snow and ice. It’s actually quite nice to look at. The clothes line is coated in a thick layer of ice too.

It’s supposed to be very cold all week and we’re expecting more snow over night and then again on Friday and I think throughout the weekend so this round of snow will be here for a while. Often when it snows it only stays on the ground for a few days at most and then melts away again. Not this time!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, The neighborhood, Toronto, Weather related Tagged With: clothes line, cold, Friday, garden, ice, ice storm, lightening, my garden, snow, storm, strange weather, thunder, thunder storm, tornado, Toronto, weather


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