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Lovely Aster

by Tricia

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I love asters. I only wish that they bloomed throughout the whole summer rather than the end of summer and into fall. I spend the summer waiting for them to bloom and then I’m sad when I see them finally blooming because that means our season of nice weather will soon be over.

My mother also loved her asters. I think they were one of her favorite flowers, and I believe that that is why I grow them each year in my own garden.

I didn’t even plant any this past year, but I was lucky because several of them must have generously reseeded so I got to have my asters this year.

Amazingly, it’s been going below zero quite often most nights the past three weeks, but somehow my petunias, snap dragons, New York Asters and a number of my roses are still blooming away as if the weather was much warmer. I don’t understand. I guess my raise beds are keeping a number of my plants warm and happy, but it doesn’t explain the hanging baskets and strawberry planters full of still blooming flowers.

There are a lot of new Green Thumber’s or people who want to join the meme. I have sent anyone who contacted me instructions on how to put the blogroll on your site. If you have it on your site but you haven’t told me- well you still aren’t on the blogroll. I’ve spent a lot of time tracking people down and I just don’t have time to keep doing this.

I also just completely Re created the *new* Green Thumb Sunday page. Please visit it at it’s new link. Complete instructions on how to add the blogroll to your site for the most popular blog software types is listed on that page.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: Aster, below zero, flowers blooming, freezing weather, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, Meme, petunia, photo, photos, roses, snap dragons

Have you used your garden for a wedding?

by Tricia

Have you ever used your garden or used flowers from your garden for someones wedding? This past summer I did – well used some of my flowers in arrangements for my husbands cousins wedding.

I wish I had some photos of the arrangements. All I have is video of the event and you can see the arrangements, right beside the most adorable candle wedding favors. I used a combination of my pink and pale yellow roses and it turned out very well.

I grow over 60 different types of roses so it was easy enough to gather enough flowers for the arrangements. We did five for them and they adored them. Perhaps next summer I’ll get to use my garden or flowers from my garden again for a special event.

If you ever have promised your garden or it’s flowers for something like a wedding how did it turn out? Were your flowers blooming when you needed them to be?

Filed Under: Garden Buzz Tagged With: candle wedding favors, Flower arrangements, Garden Buzz, garden flowers, garden wedding, roses, wedding

Favorite garden books?

by Tricia

I have a stack of gardening books that I keep handy in my living room.

I delve into the books for information to put into this blog or whenever I’m looking up a new plant and want to learn all about it before purchasing it, or in most cases after I’ve purchased it. Yes I’m an impulse plant purchaser.

I was wondering what kinds of gardening books my readers have at home? Here’s a list of what I have on hand:

  • Botanica’s Pocket – Annuals & Perennials
  • Ortho’s All about Azaleas, Camellias & Rhododendrons
  • 500 Popular Roses
  • 100 Easy to Grow native Plants for Canadian Gardens
  • The complete book of Garden Flowers
  • Readers Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening in Canada
  • Complete Guide to Gardening (Better Homes and Gardens)
  • Botanica – The illustrated A-Z of over 10,000 plants

I think I’ve got a good start to my collection. What do you have that I should be sure to get for myself?

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