What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
A thief is on the lose. Yep. This one specializes in stealing garden gloves.
I bet there’s a lot of gardeners in the neighborhood wondering where their other glove went.
Almost like putting socks in the dryer and discovering that some of your socks lost a mate, only this time the thief is known. It’s a mischievous cat.
The weather’s been so nice hear in Toronto lately that it’s almost felt like spring!
My husband and I just got back in from taking our Labrador Retriever puppy out for a walk around the neighborhood. Now it’s only 1 Celsius out, just about freezing – but there’s no wind at all and it felt much warmer to me than it really was. We had quite and enjoyable walk!
Earlier today my husband went outside and raked up all the leaves that have blown into our back garden and front yard. The garden beds now have an extra inch or so of leaves covering them to give them a bit of winter protection when it turns cold again. Surely it will be cold again soon! I think we’re expecting snow tomorrow in fact. Although the weather is supposed to be around freezing or just above all week so more than likely any snow that falls will melt rather quickly.
And here I thought we were going to have a brutal winter! Perhaps I shouldn’t speak too soon.
How is winter in your area? Is your garden buried under snow or are you having spring like conditions?
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.