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What’s been eating my daisies?

August 19, 2007 by Tricia

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Rudbeckia fulgida – Goldsturm – Black Eyed Susan

What do you think has been munching on my black eyed susans? Do you see the big chunks missing out of some of the petals?


I took a number of photos of my daisies, but I decided to put this one up today, even thought it’s not as lovely the one I’ve got up on my photoblog at the moment simply to show you the damage.

I’m not too worried about a few chunks out of some petals. It’s not like my whole garden or even all the daisies have been attacked. I’m just curious as to what might have done this. I suspect it might have been a caterpillar of some sort.

I’ll have to try to catch the culprit in the act.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: brown eyed susans, bug, caterpillar, chunk, daisies, Daisy, damage, damaged petals, dark eyed susans, eating, flower, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, insect, nature, pest, petals, photo, photoblog, photos, sunday, yellow

It’s just a rose

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

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Just Joey Rose

Yes, it’s just a rose, one called Just Joey. Isn’t it just lovely?

This rose doesn’t bloom far enough for my tastes. I’d be happy if it bloomed from late spring right into late autumn, but it only seems to bloom at most three times a season and only has five to ten flowers at a time.

The flowers are quite large at approximately four inches in diameter. Just Joey is also a scented rose. It’s not strong smelling, just a light pleasant smell when you are close to it.

Filed Under: Gardening, Hobbies, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, flower, flowers, Just Joey Rose, Love, photo, photos, rose, scent, Scented, smell, Wordless Wednesday

Create your own custom shed at Gazebo Creations

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sure even one time visitors to this site can easily figure out that I love plants and perhaps even that I have a garden. Long time readers know just how extensive my garden and my passion for gardening really is since I post about it often enough.

The only major thing that my garden is missing is a storage shed of some kind. We actually have a fairly small backyard and when I planned my garden I did so knowing I’d miss out on storage space. I thought I could live with that decision but 6 years later I really do want a storage area since my gardening tool collection has grown as my garden has matured.

Considering that I don’t have a lot of space for a storage shed I’m quite pleased to say that I found a company that makes Custom Storage Sheds. The company is Gazebo Creations and they are located in Pennsylvania.

Now I haven’t gone looking around at many other sites that sell sheds, but I can say that there is a much wider selection of storage shed types at Gazebo Creations than there are at Home Depot and the beauty of ordering a shed from Gazebo Creations is the fact that you can fully customize your storage shed and have it built to order. I can also say that even once you’ve customized a shed it appears that the price is lower than a comparable shed at Home Depot.

All you need to do is click on the link to create your own shed and follow the step by step directions. The first page lets you decide which size of shed you want. The sizes range from 6 x 6 feet to 12 x 16 feet. Since we don’t have much extra space I clicked on the 6′ x6′ option.

On the next page you’ll be give a choice of siding materials. The choices range from Dura-temp siding, Vinyl siding, Cedar lap siding, cedar tongue and groove and pine tongue and groove. I choose the cedar tongue and groove as I love the look of cedar and I know it holds up fairly well to the elements.

Once you’ve decided what materials will be used to construct the frame and outside of your shed you’ll be taken to a page where you can select additional options such as what type of flooring will be inside the shed, whether your shed will have no windows or more than one window, what type of roof shingles to use and what color of shingles to use, and finally, you’ll be able to select the style of door you’d like to have on your shed and if you’d like an additional door.

There are a number of other additional options to choose from as well such as the addition of window flower boxes, vents, gutters, taller walls, skylights and so on. By requesting any of these extra options you’ll truly be creating a unique shed.

Once you are happy with the shed that you’ve created you can decide whether your shed should be shipped assembled, or pre-assembled. The very bottom of the page shows your selection and updates as you customize your shed with the various options. When you are ready you can request a shipping quote for the shed that you’ve just created.

See isn’t that easy?

There are also a number of shed packages you can choose from. I presume these are popular styles that have been selected time and time again in the past by clients so they’ve made it easy for us to just pick a shed that’s already been fully customized.

I’m going to have to show my husband this site and the shed that I just created with all the options that I added before even thinking about placing an order, but you never know, I may soon have my own gazebocreations.com custom shed.

If you’d like a storage shed why don’t you visit the site and click on the create a custom shed link to see what you can come up with for your yard. If you purchase a shed from Gazebo Creations I’m certain you’ll be pleased with how nice they look.

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Shopping, Tricia's Garden, Web and Technology Tagged With: additional options, assembled, backyard, Cedar lap siding, cedar tongue and groove, custom, custom shed, door, door style, Dura temp siding, flooring, garden, Gardening, Gazebo creations, gutters, home, husband, pine tongue and groove, plants, pre assembled, range of sizes, range of styles, shed flooring, shed package, shingles, shipping, shipping quote, skylight, storage shed, taller walls, vents, Vinyl siding, window box, Windows

A true prince of a rose

August 12, 2007 by Tricia

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Prince Napoleon Rose

Prince napoleon is an antique rose. This one is supposed to be a climber but it’s never grown more than six or seven feet tall. I’m not complaining since it’s often lush with beautifully scent flowers.

This rose is also quite hardy. It often has almost fully green branches in late winter and early spring when the snow melts so I have very little to do with it in the way of pruning off winter damaged growth.

I love this rose.

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Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Antique Rose, beautiful, climbing rose, flower, flowers, garden, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy, Love, old rose, photo, photos, plants, Prince Napoleon Rose, rose, scent, sunday, winter

Colorful leaves

August 11, 2007 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Rows

Heuchera Purple palace leaves

This weeks photo hunter theme is Rows. I don’t really tend to take photos of things in rows so this was a hard one for me to try to complete.

I chose this Heuchera leaf since the veins in the leaves are so well defined. They are in rows, angled rows, but rows none the less.

The Heuchera plant has very pretty leaves. It flowers, and while they are nice when they are around it’s the leaves that are the main attraction. If you have a shady area of your garden that you want to brighten up with some color try a heuchera with it’s colourful leaves.

Filed Under: Gardening, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: color, flower, flowers, garden, Heuchera, heuchera leaf, leaf, leaves, pattern, photo hunt, photo hunter, photohunt, plants, row, rows

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