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I’d rather look at roses than endure this cold wind!

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Beautiful Graham Thomas English Rose.

Winter hit Toronto early this year and we’ve had snow cover for most of the last month! Thinking back to last winter, I think we’d only had one snow by this date and it melted shortly after it fell. I guess it’s about time we had a real winter around here.

Yesterday it did warm up a bit, but it rained and rained and rained some more. Then in the late afternoon strong winds arrived bringing with it very chilly weather. Right now it’s only a little below freezing, but thanks to the wind it feels extremely cold outside.

I’d much rather remember how lovely this rose looked in October when I took this photo when I have to take the puppy outside in the cold!

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Lovely Moulinex Rose

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Oh man it’s nice to take a look at this glimpse of better times today!

We’ve had a major winter storm with what they say was about 40 cm (16 inches) of snow, but walking the pup and looking at the driveways that haven’t been shoveled next to sidewalks that have I’d say that Saturday and today’s snow storms brought us 2 feet of snow!

I took this photo of one of my Moulinex roses on the first of October. My roses continued to bloom until at least Mid November when it really started to cool down here in Toronto.

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Ernest Markham Clematis

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Ernest Markam Clematis

I grow this lovely Clematis on a beautiful hand made wooden trellis. the trellis is made of bent branches and is shaped a bit like a door with a curved top. It’s very ornate and looks spectacular with this clematis growing on it.

I think I grow 8 or 9 different clematis in my back and front gardens now. They are great for small gardens as they don’t take much space. If you have a fence or trellis they look wonderful and they add some height to the garden.

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A bright little rose

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I love this little rose plant. It’s called Morden Sunrise and it produces the most lovely multicolored roses.

Morden Sunrise is a fairly compact rose plant. Mine has never reached more than 2 to 2.5 feet tall, yet it produces a number of bright blooms regularly throughout the growing season. It’s also a hardy rose so those in cool climates would do well with this rose.

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Winters not here and I’m already longing for Spring!

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Look at that. It’s the first night that I’m aware of it being below zero and now all I can think of is how I can’t wait for spring to come! This is a photo of Toronto’s Beach area just off of Lakeshore boulevard in early spring. Pretty isn’t it?

I think part of the reason is that I was going over a number of my older photos yesterday and I was looking at so many pictures of spring flowers that, that started my pining for Spring.

Well … I may have something to help me get through winter, but the catch is that it will probably make me go out and face the cold more often. Ironic eh? I’ll tell you about it in another post later today.

Have a great Sunday!

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