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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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Annual Celosia in the garden

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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.

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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I’ve got to remember Dahlias for next year!

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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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A delicate pink rose

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This is the Tiffany Rose. Aren’t it’s delicate petals beautiful?

I’ve only got one of these rose plants and I find it rather stingy with it’s beautiful flowers, but when it does produce some blooms they are absolutely outstanding!

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