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Wild flowers and berries

by Tricia

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Last week Chris and I took our dog to one of our cities (Toronto) beautiful parks for a nice long walk outdoors.

Our dog had a ball running around in the off leash areas and uhm … rolling in mud! and we had a nice time watching her, talking to another dog owner (who’s dog played with Midnight during our hike) and simply enjoying our surroundings.

The trees are only just starting to change color here in Toronto, so I mainly focused on talking pictures of wild flowers as we walked.

I came across these flowers that I think look quite bit like my perennial Asters, but I’m really not sure what kind of flowers they are:

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They’re pretty aren’t they?

I also came across a small tree (maybe 10 feet tall?) that had these lovely black berry clusters growing among the leaves. I’ve seen this before but I cannot remember what this tree is called. Any ideas?

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The rich black berries are solid looking with a shiny outer skin. The berries are probably just a little bigger than your baby finger nail .. maybe the size of your ring fingers nail?

The clusters of berries looked very pretty in the tree among the leaves. They’re probably not edible though.

I have more pictures from our walk through Taylor creek park on Tricia’s Musings and My World if you’d like to see more flowers and some sumac’s turning red.






Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Pets and Wildlife, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: black_berries, dog, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hike, leaves, mud, park, pretty, tree, walk, wild_flowers

Is it a tree or is it a chair?

by Tricia

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live tree chair

Have you ever seen anything like this?

It must have taken years for this tree to be shaped to grow into the form of a chair. Very cool!

Filed Under: In The Garden, Photography, Recreation, Trees and Shrubs, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: chair, cool, formed, interesting, photo, tree, wordlesswednesday, WW, years

Dahlia thief?

by Tricia

Can you believe this? You know my lovely planted front boulevard? Well the other day when I was outside with my Lab puppy I took a moment to survey the garden. Much to my astonishment I saw that one of my Dahlias was lying flat on the ground.

I took the puppy back inside and went out to take a further look. It looks like someone was either trying to snap off a flower and accidentally pulled the whole two foot tall plant from the ground, or more likely they were trying to steal the plant for some odd reason.

The dahlia had been in the ground since late April so it was well established and growing well. I basically had to replant it and stake it to stabilize it. if it survives I probably won’t see flowers from it for another month. Grrr

It ticks me off when people do stupid things to other peoples gardens or property. Did you happen to read my story about everyone in the neighborhood stealing peaches off my neighbors tree?

Have you had people steal or damage plants on your property?

Filed Under: Garden Maintenance, Home and Lifestyle, The neighborhood Tagged With: April, astonishment, boulevard, dahlia, Dahlias, flower, garden, garden thieves, ground, Grrr, Lab, month, neighborhood, property, pulled out plant, puppy, reason, replant, snap, thief, tree, trying to steal plant

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