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Yellow tulips and Glory of the Snow- beautiful spring flowers

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yellowtulip

I just realized that I don’t have enough yellow tulips growing in my garden. You might remember last year I kept posting about my orange tulips. They were so pretty and I was in love with their fiery color, but this year I think yellow has captured my interest.

The yellow tulip that I’ve shown above is a lily flowering tulip I believe. Some of it’s petals will be slightly longer than the rest and they’ll spread out very much like a lily. Quite pretty really.

Another flower that’s looking lovely in my garden this spring is the Glory of the Snow flowers. I have several clumps of them growing in the front and back garden beds in pink, white and purple/blue. Most of the ones in the back garden are starting to fade away, but the ones in the front, where it’s shadier are at their prime.

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Are there any plants that you really enjoy each spring?

Today is gardening day at some of my blogs. See what’s growing over at my gardening blog and what’s blooming over at Tricia’s Musings.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!





Interesting bike storage

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Wordless Wednesday

novel bike storage

Live in an apartment? Don’t have any storage space or even a balcony? Take a cue from this savvy apartment renter and hook your bike outside the window. Heck you could even lower it to the ground to make it easier on yourself when you want to take a ride.

Crazy teen drivers

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Late last night I took the puppy outside to do her business before putting her to bed in her crate. While we were outside we both heard loud voices and suddenly headlights came at us from the street opposite our house.

Dumb teenagers! They were revving up the SUV they were driving and the driver must have put his foot on the gas because the vehicle came roaring right at us for a moment or two before the kid hit the brakes! We were both a little frightened after that. It made me think I’d better make sure my Life and term insurance is up to date! LOL

Chris had been getting ready to go to bed and he was upstairs in the bedroom window. He’d heard the kids voices and saw what happened as the vehicle came at us. He was ready to run outside and tell the guys off, but they backed up their SUV and took off backwards down the street!

They had to have been drinking!

I think I know what house that SUV belongs to and I’m going to keep an eye out for it. I wonder if the boys parents know what he was up to last night.

Strange messages

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Over the last month or two, every time I talked about our bad weather (remember that huge snow storm we had here in Toronto at the end of March?), and my desire to get away from it all for a vacation on one of my other blogs someone came along and left me a message. The message always suggest that I visit check out one of the Outer Banks rentals if I needed to get away.

It was kind of strange. It was always the same person and they weren’t even leaving a link to a vacation rental site. So I’m not certain that it was a spam message. Perhaps the person really thought I’d have a great time visiting the Outer Banks?

Certainly I get enough spammy comments on each of blogs day in and day out. Those get marked as spam so those people won’t end up being able to bother other WordPress bloggers once Akismet gets there number.

Do you get strange comments on your sites that make you wonder what the persons getting at?

Looking forward to fresh strawberries from the garden

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strawberry plant in April

I can’t believe that as soon as the snow melts each year my strawberry plants look pretty much like the picture above. Green leaves and all. Sure there are a few dead leaves that I have to remove, but the plants are thriving and ready to start growing by the end of March each year.

The strawberries thrive in my garden … each year they send out new shoots and new plants begin to grow … often in areas that I don’t want them to grow. I just cut them off and plant them near the edge of a garden bed. I end up throwing out or giving away a lot of the new strawberry plants each year too. However, since I’m always replanting new plants, and for the most part the older plants keep returning, I end up with more and more strawberries each year.

The best thing about these strawberry plants is that they start producing berries usually by mid June and they keep going often until October so I have strawberries all season.

The only foreseeable problem this year is the dog.

A week ago I saw strawberries on sale in the grocery store and bought some so that Chris and I could have strawberries for dessert. Well, I ended up letting Midnight taste the strawberries and she loved them. Now of course she knows what this delicious treat looks like so I’m hoping she doesn’t notice them in the garden or else she’ll end up eating them before we can pick them.

I know dogs and cats can cause havoc in the garden, but do any of you have a dog or cat that singles out a fruit or veggie that they like and eat it straight from the garden bed?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

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