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Pretty Petunias

February 25, 2007 by Tricia

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As the month drags on I’m longing more and more for Spring and Summer to hurry up and get here.


My petunia’s last year were just lovely. I often grow red and purple ones because the birds like them best. Particularly Hummingbirds (red petunias) which I’m trying to entice into my yard each summer. I do however purchase or grow a large number of white flowers as well because they accent the colored flowers and in the dark of the garden you can still see white flowers.

As many of you who have read this site for a while, or my gardening blog know, I do seem to enjoy gardening or being in my garden at night. Evening dinners or get together’s on the patio, watering the flower beds and lawn at night so my noisy stalker elderly neighbor doesn’t see me and slow me down … heck I’ve even been known to pull out a spot light and do some planting at 11 pm. So yes, my garden is to be enjoyed and worked in as much during the day as at night and the white flowers sure light up the place in the evening.

What can I say. I’m either a crazy or an extreme gardener. Take your pick.

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In the Pink

February 18, 2007 by Tricia

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Here’s a photo of one of my pink gladiolas from this past summer. It’s blossoms aren’t quite fully open in this photo.

I love the multiple shades of pink that you can see on each petal. From deep dark rose to the palest of pink. Isn’t nature amazing? You’ve got to wonder how a blossom can develop with so many shades of one color and have them blend together so perfectly.

This is why I love my garden. There’s something so simple, yet so absolutely amazing to look at each day with wonder.

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Antique Roses

February 17, 2007 by Tricia

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I grow a number of Antique roses. Many of them date back into the early 1800’s. Their perfume is heavenly and in fact these roses are/were used to make perfume.

The rose that I chose to show you today is called Compte de Chambord. It looks like a more modern rose when it first opens, but then it divides and quarters – as shown in the last picture. That’s a classic feature of a true antique rose.

This rose puts out most of it’s scent in the early morning. My neighbors can actually smell it when they step into their yards.

Now, I haven’t been working lately because of my illness, but when I was working in the ER department I’d work a night shift each week, and in the summer time I’d often visit my garden in the early morning to wind down. I was always drawn to that rose just by it’s scent. It’s heavenly.

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13 Reasons why I can’t wait for Spring

February 15, 2007 by Tricia

Thirteen Things about why I can’t wait for spring!

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I can’t wait for Spring because …

1…. It’s freakin’ cold!!!

2…. Too much snow.

3…. I want to get outside for daily walks but between the subzero temperatures and snow I need to wait for better weather.

4….I love the soft yet bright greens of Spring.

5…. I’m going stir crazy stuck inside this house.

6….We get together with our friends more often when the weather is nicer.

7…. I can get in the garden.

8…. I’m dying to see the first green leaves of my crocus’ and other Spring flowers poke up through the earth.

9…. I love barbeque’s! It’s too cold and windy to BBQ outside in January and February (sometimes March too).

10….I want to go bicycling. It’s not as much fun in the snow.

11…. I can sit outside in my garden with my laptop and do my computer work.

12…. maybe I’ll be feeling good enough to get back to work by Spring?

13…. Spring is my favorite month – full of new life.

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Garden Sabotage

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

My crazy little old lady neighbor is at it again!

I think she’s been trying to kill my garden piece by piece.

This year she’s attacking the little plot at the end of our shared driveway. She’s putting cement crumbles on it.

Her son did a lousy repair job on a hole in her walkway last year where she was convinced a mouse was living. Needless to say, after some cold weather the whole thing is a crumbling mess and she keeps throwing the chunks in my garden.

Now she’s putting all the little green keys from our other neighbors huge maple tree into this tiny garden bed. I found about two feet worth of maple keys there today. It was really fun getting them out from around the two roses that grow there.

Is it garden envy? Senility? Dementia? I don’t know, but I do know she’s really starting to tick me off. Remember my garden scraps post about here? And the stalking? Uh huh.

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