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Storm Watch!

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It’s hot here today! 31 Celsius (87.8 F) with a humidity factor bringing the temperature up to 40 Celsius (104 F). See I told you it gets hot and humid here in Toronto.

It’s been dark and kind of overcast for the last couple of hours, but just a few minutes ago it got almost as dark as late evening and the wind picked up like crazy.

A storm’s a comin!

Now there’s thunder and lightening but very little rain. So far.

This is the kind of weather that causes Tornado’s to spring up in the Southern Ontario region. I hope that one doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of a few towns that got hit by one.

Chances are also high that our power will go out at some point in the near future. A couple of years ago when there was a good storm like this one’s shaping up to be my husband and I heard a loud crack and saw a giant flash of light off to the east. Turns out it was a transformer that got hit by lightening and blew up! That kept the electricity out for a while!

Wish me luck?

I’m sure my plants will love the extra water and nitrogen in the air from the lightening … but I really hate thunder storms.






Shade loving spring flower

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I took this photo about two weeks ago.

Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of this plant. It’s a spring flower that for me, only blooms for approximately one week each year. The name is something like pasiflora … but yeah, I know it’s not a pasiflora as it’s certainly not a passion flower.

Whatever it is, it’s a lovely spring flower who’s blooms open fully in the daylight hours and close as the light dims in the late afternoon. I have mine planted in a fairly shady area, so it does well in shade.

This flower is no longer blooming and it’s foliage will die down sometime in the next few weeks as we come into the warm weather of summer.

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I’ve been flamed?

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Can you believe that someone got riled up over my post “Amazing Weather“? Yesterday the irate, and amazingly ignorant person decided to leave an oh so rude comment. Sorry, but I didn’t publish it. There’s no point as it didn’t add a valid or even constructive argument to the post or the site.

My post discussed the fact that the weather has been unbelievably warm here in Toronto. I’m not just talking for a few days in a row – I mean for most of December and up until this past Sunday we’ve had temperatures day and night above 0 Celsius (that’s 32 F for you American Folks). Days often reaching 8 to 10 c. Quite pleasant.

In fact so nice that I don’t think my roses have fully gone dormant. They have little red nubs of new stems and branches growing on them. That happened last year as well, but in February after a very cold January.

The person who left the nasty comment didn’t bother to leave a website, and the email doesn’t look real either. They took it upon themselves to call me a stupid idiot who shouldn’t talk about things that I know nothing of saying that Toronto’s average temperature is -1.7 C during the day and -6 at night and that warm days are not unheard of.

Well you know what? It’s true that warm days are not unheard of in December, January, February and or March. But long stretches, a whole month of warm weather when it should be below zero, is unheard of. Listen to the news. This is the warmest winter we’ve ever had. As a gardener I pay quite a bit of attention to the weather year round.

To my unknown commenter. I do know what I speak of. I’ve lived here for 23 years. Were you having a bad day or something? Why get so riled up and call someone an idiot over weather? I’d hate to think of how you might act or what you’d say over something much more worthy of getting angry over.

Get a life.

Oh and thanks for breaking me into the flames and mean comments – that’s the first really mean comment I’ve received on uhm … oh the 8 blogs that I write for or maintain. Cool.

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