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My secret garden admirers

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

Now that we’re out several times each day walking the puppy we’re meeting all kinds of neighbors. Not too many with dogs yet though … I guess we don’t walk our pup at the same time as our dog owning neighbors.

Of course, Chris is a talkative friendly guy so he already knows quite a few of our neighbors – way more than I do! But I’m getting to know more of them these days.

I find our puppy needs to go out around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon … of course that’s when all the kids are walking home from the schools down the street so we often get mobbed by puppy loving kids and teens. Midnight just goes nuts doing her excited little puppy jumps when a new person crouches down to pet her and tell her she’s adorable.

One of the neighbors that I ended up talking to the other day knew me by my garden when she saw where I was coming from. “Oh you’re the person with the fantastic garden and all the roses!” she said.

We’ve found that a lot of our neighbors are secret and sometimes not so secret admirers of our garden. Some even walk down our driveway in the summer to have a look at the backyard. That’s a little startling if I’m busy digging in the garden or if I’m inside the house and I see the security light in the drive way go on and hear the sounds of human foot steps walking down the drive. You never know who it might be right?

Anyway, this one garden admirer got talking about my garden and told me her daughter is getting married in the summer. Then she astonished me by asking if maybe I’d like to supply the wedding flowers? I don’t know about that … it depends on when the wedding is and what’s blooming of course.

We agreed to talk more about it sometime in the Spring. I’m not sure if I’ll do it or not. I guess it depends what the bride has in mind, but you never know this might turn into something interesting for me.





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Ernest Markham Clematis

December 9, 2007 by Tricia

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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

December 2, 2007 by Tricia

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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.

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

Filed Under: Entertainment, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: bloom, blooms, color, cool, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy rose, Morden Sunrise, photo, plant, rose, roses, sunrise

Annual Celosia in the garden

December 1, 2007 by Tricia

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I love growing these annual celosia flowers in my garden each year. They’re short plants, maybe 5 to 6 inches in height, but with their vibrant colors they pack a punch in the garden.

Now that we have a dog that will be sharing our garden with us we’ll have to remove a few of our plants that are known to be extremely toxic. I have no idea if celosia is toxic or not. I guess that will be another one I’ll have to look up.

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Milkweed flower buds

November 29, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Milkweed flower buds

I was going over some of my older photos and I came across this one of milkweed flower buds and thought it looked kind of interesting. If it was dried as it is, it would make a pretty dried flower for an arrangement.

Of course nothing is blooming in my garden now! We had our first snow last week and it’s become quite cool here over the last few days. Below zero or hovering around zero most days. I’m really not ready for winter to arrive yet … especially now that I have a puppy that I have to take out about ten times a day! LOL

And yes, I know my Wordless Wednesday post is a day late … blame the dog!

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