Green Thumb Sunday

Non-stop roses

November 4, 2007 by Tricia

The day time temperatures are still nice enough but it’s beginning to get close to zero at night these days.

Surprisingly my roses, sunflowers and many of my other flowers are still blooming away quite happily as if they don’t care that winter will soon be here.

I took this photo a couple of years ago and I believe it’s of my Compte de Chambord rose, but it could be Jacques Cartier. I really should name my roses when I upload them to flickr eh?

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I’ve got to remember Dahlias for next year!

October 28, 2007 by Tricia

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I grew this dahlia last year and I never did get around to finding more like this one to plant this year. I just loved the type of flowers that this dahlia produced. It’s quite pretty isn’t it?

I had planted this flower in my front boulevard. It’s a short dahlia – only about two feet tall, so it fits most small garden beds quite nicely.

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Sedum is lovely in the Fall

October 21, 2007 by Tricia

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Our Sedum plants have been flowering for about a month now. I took this photo shortly after they’d started blooming. Aren’t their tiny delicate little flowers pretty?

I even enjoy this plant when the flowers begin to die and dry up. The flowers and their stalks dry and turn a brownish color. You’d think that would be ugly, but it’s quite ornamental. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some people cut these dried flowers and stalks and put them in Winter dried flower displays in their home. That’s how nice they look even when they are dead.

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Green Beans

October 14, 2007 by Tricia

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I took this photo a couple of weeks ago.

The green pole beans that I grow in a large container at the back of the house were beginning to die down, but some of the beans were hanging nicely in front of my metal sun ornament so I decided to snap a few pictures and this was the result.

Do you grow green beans? I actually like eating them raw although I can’t do that very often with my stomach problems. (raw veggies kill me) Raw green beans taste great. If you haven’t tried them before you should.

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What the Phlox is going on?

October 7, 2007 by Tricia

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In my Green Thumb posts on As the Garden Grows and You are in My World Now I was talking about how we’ve had some strange weather here in Toronto.

Flowers are still blooming away as if it were August or September rather than October, as you can see from the photo that I’ve included of the Phlox that is growing in my garden and that it’s currently on it’s third set of blooms!

My raspberries are still producing fruit, and as I said on my gardening blog, some of my flowering vines have begun to produce berries of their own too. Berries that I’ve never noticed before.

It’s been a warm sticky weekend here in Toronto as well. We had air conditioning of all things on yesterday since it was so muggy! Crazy weather.

I hope that the weather in your area has been a little more pleasant than it has been here.

Any Canadians reading this? Happy Thanks Giving! Yes, here in Canada we celebrate Thanks Giving a little earlier than our American friends. Probably because the weather is usually a lot cooler in many parts of our country by this time of year. Not this year though … LOL

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Non-stop roses

I’ve got to remember Dahlias for next year!

Sedum is lovely in the Fall

Green Beans

What the Phlox is going on?

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