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William Baffin in bloom

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Beautiful William Baffin blooms.


I can’t wait until Summer comes again so that I can see my very tall rose bush, it must be 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide, full of blooms. It’s first flush of blooms each year in late spring or early summer is just stunning! It’s quite a sight to see.

Does any one else grow William Baffin or one of the other Explorer roses?

BTW sorry that my post is a little late today. My puppy has been very sick in the last few days and it’s been quite a handful caring for her.

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That’s one long Stamen

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My hibiscus shrub has the most beautiful coral colored flowers.

This is a macro of one of the blooms. Note the extremely long pollen covered stamen.

I brought the Hibiscus indoors sometime in October. The plant is currently sitting in a south facing window in one of our upstairs bedrooms and appears to be doing well. I lost a hibiscus last winter so I’m hoping that this one manages to survive it’s stay indoors.

I wonder how many of my neighbors grow toxic plants?

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I think I’m going to have to become an expert at picking out toxic plants.

When we take our puppy for walks she tries to investigate everything and often tries to taste everything she encounters. I don’t know how many small stones I’ve pulled out of her mouth!

Now that the cold weather is here the plants in peoples gardens have all withered up and I can’t tell what the heck they are. As a result going near enough to any plant to taste it is taboo for our little pup.

It’s bad enough that I have some very toxic plants in my own garden, but since I haven’t been walking around the neighborhood much this year, now that I’m out everyday walking around the neighborhood I have no idea what everyone else has been growing or whether it might be harmful to my pup if she tries to taste their plants.

I guess for proper dog walking etiquette it’s best anyway if she’s not wandering onto everyone’s lawn to investigate their gardens.

For those of you with dogs how do you keep them out of the plants? – your own or your neighbors.

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