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Canna Tropicana Bloom

November 30, 2008 by Tricia

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I just realized that I never posted a photo of any of my cannas in bloom on any of the blogs that I do Green Thumb Sunday on.

Perhaps I never posted a photo because I have so few from this past summer.

My canna’s didn’t overwinter inside the house very well last year and as a result they took quite a while to recover once it was warm enough to put them outdoors. They didn’t begin to bloom until late August and the blooms didn’t last all that long.

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The canna’s are once again indoors for the winter. I keep them in my basement. I let their stalks dry out and I cut them down and then I only water them about once a month or so. Just enough to keep them alive, but dormant in the cool dark basement.

I have several tropical plants that I place in my garden each summer, but then bring back indoors by October. Passion flower vines, a Trumpet flower vine, a Jasmine bush, a hibiscus and … I’m sure there are a couple more, but I can’t think of what they are right now. I keep the vines, jasmine and hibscus upstairs in a bedroom with a south facing window. They get a fair amount of light through the winter and are well watered. Others like the canna’s go to the basement for a winter rest.

Do you have tropical plants that you place in your garden or yard during the summer and try to keep alive indoors through the winter? I’m getting better at overwintering my plants, but it’s not uncommon to lose at least one each year … although, crossing fingers!, I didn’t lose any last winter so hopefully I’ll have the same luck this winter.





Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, My Garden, Photography, Toronto Tagged With: bloom, blooms, Canna, Canna Tropicana, cool_basement, dark, dormant, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hibiscus, jasmine, overwinter, overwintering_plants, passion_flower, tropical_plants, vines, winter

Hungry Hamster

November 26, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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Hmmm is this hamster starting to rethinking his snack or just pausing for a moment? I wonder if that biscuit really is high in calories?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor, Pets and Wildlife, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: biscuit, cute, eating, funny_animal, hamster, pause, snack, Wordless_Wednesday, WW

Natural remedies and supplements for Crohns?

November 25, 2008 by Tricia

It’s kind of funny. Whenever I write about my Crohn’s disease and the awful symptoms it causes me I get all kinds of advice and helpful tips from my readers. it’s nice in a way, but I’ve tried just about everything that I think is medically safe – from dozens of medications prescribed by my doctors to natural remedies that I don’t think will do any harm like Cat’s Claw, probiotics and so on.

Most of the suggestions that I get have merit, but there’s always someone that suggests diet pills (why i don’t know) or some kind of multivitamin super supplement like Lipovox. Things like that might help other disorders, but I’m not sure they’d help bowel inflammation.

One of the suggestions I receive recently was Aloe Vera pills. I might try those as others with Crohn’s have found it to relieve their symptoms to some degree. It’s worth a try and shouldn’t do any harm.

When you are sick or if you have a chronic disease have you tried natural remedies or non traditional medicines?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: chronic_disease, Crohns, doctors, ill, medicine, natural, non_traditional, pain, remedies, sick, supplements, symptoms

Downtown Toronto is changing

November 25, 2008 by Tricia

You might remember that last week I told you one of our friends was going to be having open heart surgery at a hospital here in Toronto. Well, she had the operation on Friday and she’s still in the hospital and recovering well.

We spent the better part of the weekend going back and forth to the hospital visiting our friend and our husband. Needless to say i didn’t manage to get much done this weekend! She was seen by physio today and was finally allowed to get up and walk around so if she continues to progress well she’ll be out of the hospital by the end of the week. Fast isn’t it?

The hospital is downtown … actually the hospital she’s in (Toronto General) is surrounded by a number of other hospitals. I hadn’t actually been downtown for some time and I was amazed to see that the area around Dundas and Yonge had changed quite a bit. For years they’ve been building a new multi-movie theater on the corner of Yonge and Dundas and now they’ve removed all the boards that had been blocking it off – for years and I think it’s open.

Now that corner that had been a huge construction site competes with the huge shopping center and the other stores on each corner. It’s a mass of digital signage in that area!

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I took that photo two years ago, but as you can see there were lots of digital signs back then .. and now that area on the right of the picture is a big multi-movie theater with, oddly enough, a section at the top that is used by the neighboring Ryerson University (I believe they are part owners of the complex).

In the late 80’s and early 90’s that whole area felt like home to me. I was a jewelery – part of the jewelry trade, and that area if full of trade jewelers. I had my business in that area and I lived and breathed the downtown lifestyle. I still live close to the downtown core, but in a much more family friendly area.

Have you noticed how parts of your city has changed over the years? Amazing at times isn’t it?

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Movies, Toronto Tagged With: buildings, digital_signs, downtown, hospitals, jewelry_trade, lifestyle, living, movie_theater, mulitplex, Toronto

Reflections of Toronto

November 22, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks Photo Hunt theme is Reflection

I took these photos of the Toronto water front area while on a dinner boat cruise last year. There’s nothing like being on the water at sunset. What a beautiful view of an impressive city.

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If you look closely at the pictures, above and below, you can see that the CN tower and other nearby buildings are reflected in the water. You can also see the reflection of the sunset in the water too.

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I’m looking forward to seeing what other Photo Hunters have come up with for this weeks theme! You can see my other entry – Reflections of Midnight – on my main blog Tricia’s Musings if you’d like.

Filed Under: Canada, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: beautiful, buildings, CN_tower, dinner_boat, downtown, Lake_Ontario, reflections, reflecton, sunset, Toronto, water, waterfront

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