Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
This is a photo of the clematis flowers growing at the front of my house near the driveway. I like how our flag was captured in this photo as well.
This clematis bloomed profusely this year and made the front of the house look quite nice with their pink blooms.
I think the vine has mostly finished flowering but the flowers have turned into beautiful seed heads. I’ll have to take a photo of the rounded seed heads to show you how pretty they are.
It’s twenty to eight and I should probably make dinner but I’m just not hungry. I hate it when I’m not feeling well. I don’t sleep and I don’t eat properly and I’m certain all that adds up into making me feel worse.
I’m writing this down here because I want to keep track of cycle that I think is happening. I have one pain medication in the form of a patch. I put it on and it stays on for three days. I think that on the third day it’s not doing much for me at all and those are the days that I tend to feel the worst. Yesterday was a third day day. Of course if my theory is correct I should be feeling great today, but that’s not the case. I only feel a little better than I did yesterday. Hmmm …
I’m also trying to finish up my blogging – no hope of that! I’ve sites I haven’t even touched yet today! – so that I can get outside in the heat and water my garden. If Chris wasn’t working an evening shift at least I’d be able to ask him to water by hand or set up the sprinkler.
I’m certainly not looking forward to going outside. Not at all. It’s 31 Celsius with a humidity factor bringing it to 37 C outside right now. That’s 98.6 F. Yuck. An hour ago the humidity brought it to 39 C (102.2 F). I hope it’s a little cooler by the time I get outside to water my parched garden.
You ever have those days when you feel bleh and just can’t get things done?
I have a few types of Milkweed growing in my garden. One is a hybrid ornamental Milkweed called Butterfly Weed, and then there’s this one. I think this might be one that’s native to Canada but it’s growing where I had a tropical milkweed growing a few years ago.
Certainly the tropical Milkweed shouldn’t have survived. Perhaps it reverted to a hardier version. Either way, it’s quite pretty and it’s very large! This milkweed grows to at least five feet tall if not taller.
It’s just beginning to flower as you can see from the photograph above which is a mix of buds and tiny flowers.
The butterflies are certainly loving the milkweed that I grow as well as the petunias, the hosta flowers and the honey suckle vines. I’m sure there are other plants in my garden that they like but I see them most often around the three that I just mentioned.
Perhaps later today I’ll get some new photos of butterflies on flowers.
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The other day when I was experimenting with my new camera while out in the rain I discovered a perfect looking Maltese Cross bloom. I took several photographs of it, getting closer and closer as I did.
The cluster of flowers is actually only an inch or so in diameter so you can imagine just how close I was zooming in to get this close up.
Don’t the petals actually have a bit of a plasticized look to them?
The Maltese cross is a great plant to grow. It’s fairly hardy. I think it’s a zone 3 or 4 plant. The plant grows tall stalks that develop flower buds on their tips which develop into clusters of flowers as shown above. There’s often 20+ stalks at a time.
My Maltese Cross plants bloom at least twice a year. Usually in late June to early July and then I cut down the stalks when the flowers are finished. The plant then blooms once more in late August or early September. The flowers tend to last for about two weeks at a time.
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I’m sorry that this Green Thumb Sunday post is late. I’ve had a busy weekend and wasn’t able to make my post on early Sunday morning as I normally do.
This photo of a passion flower was taken earlier this week. I took the photo with my new Digital SLR camera. Doesn’t it take a great photo?
I’ve gone nuts over vines this year. A couple of weeks ago I bought two more clematis vines, three different passion flower vines and a tropical vine that I can’t find the name of yet.
This passion flower has a faint scent. You can’t smell it until you actually put your nose to it though. It smells lemony. It’s a lovely fresh scent.
Do you enjoy passion flower vines too?
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