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Pretty yellow Stella D’ora Daylily

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I grow a few clumps of Stella D’ora daylilies throughout my garden and they are wonderfully simple flowers to care for because they do well in both moderate to full sun, don’t need a whole lot of care and they manage to rebloom several times throughout the growing season.

I tend to grow my Stella D’ora’s near plants such as Hostas and heucheras. They also look quite nice beside lavender or purple Salvia.

I think in all I grow about five different types of daylilies, but even though Stella is quite common, I still think it’s one of the easiest and nicest day lilies that I grow.

Do you grow day lilies in your garden?

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Minty Feet – now that’s refreshing!

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Wow. What a great idea!

Everyone gets stinky feet every now and then don’t they? If you’re on your feet most of the day, wear nylons or socks with synthetic materials in them you’re bound to work up a little sweat between your toes and as we all know this can be the cause of some mighty stinky feet.

Well, the Japanese have come up with a great idea. It’s a pad that you put in your shoe. As you walk on the sponge through the day mint fumes are pumped into the shoe.

You’re feet will be, literally, minty fresh.

Check out this video:

I need to get something like this for my husband!

Muscles don’t fail me now

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Well it’s the end of the month and it’s snowing yet again. I think this is the fifth or sixth big snow storm we’ve had this month here in Toronto. It’s also set a record for the amount of snow during this month too!

I believe I heard the weather man say that we’d get about a foot of snow in just a few hours this afternoon. I believe it. It’s snowing quite heavily right now.

I guess I’ll be getting some exercise shoveling all that snow in a while. Oh boy! Muscles don’t fail me now!

Great items and gift ideas at Urshop

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Lately I’ve found that I’ve been doing more and more of my shopping online. I’ve purchased things for my dog as well as gifts for my pregnant niece recently. The next things that I’ll probably end up purchasing online will likely be some decor items for my garden and possibly some new plants.

If you enjoy shopping online you might want to visit www.urshop.us. The site has two online catalogs full of great gift ideas or of course items that you might want to purchase for yourself.

If you visit the site just click on the shop button and you’ll be taken to a page where you can select from the Family Avenue catalog or the World of Products catalog.

The Family Avenue catalog has figurines, gift baskets, home decor items, pet beds, bath sets, clothing items, photo frames and a whole lot more.

The World of Products catalog appears to be larger than the Family Avenue Catalog. There are 18 categories of items to choose from! You’ll find products in the Outdoor Living category for the garden, barbecuing, eating outdoors and for making your outdoor time all the more enjoyable. Then there are sections such as Home Decor, Just for Her, Bath and body, fountains, Candles and Scents, Americana, Just for Him, Kitchen and household and for the family as well as a few others.

I found several items that I really liked. Ones that I’d use in my own home or be more than happy to give as gifts. I’m sure you’ll find a few items you can use too!

Oh and looking through the catalogs is very much like looking through a real catalog. The advantage of course is that you can click on any item that grabs your interest and get more information about it. I really did find that the site was easy to use.

Why don’t you check out Urshop for yourself.

All kinds of Tulips

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I think for many people, when they think of spring flowers they think of tulips. Am I right?

I grow several different types of tulips. There are fringed ones, lily tipped, long stem, short stemmed or dwarf tulips, regular garden variety tulips … I’m sure there’s another type or two that I grow.

Did you know that some tulips bloom in early spring, others in mid spring and that there are also late spring varieties? I grow some of each so that my garden is filled with tulips for the majority of the spring season.

I believe the white tulip that I included above is a lily tipped tulip. Some of it’s outer petals are longer than the rest and they arch up above the flower elegantly.

Do you grow tulips in your garden? Do you sometimes buy bulbs that have been forced so that you can have tulip or other spring bulbs blooming inside your house in late winter?

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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