Tricia — Page 131 — You are in My World Now

Chicago Peace Hybrid Tea Rose

December 30, 2007 by Tricia

As I was saying in my GTS post on Tricia’s Musings, I had to replace a few roses after last years very mild winter. This rose, Chicago Peace is now where my beautiful Love and Peace hybrid tea rose had been for several years.

Chicago peace isn’t as loud a rose as Love and Peace but it has multiple colors within it’s petals just like Love and Peace, only instead of being shades of yellow, orange and pink, Chicago Peace only seems to have reds, pinks, corals and whites within it.

It’s a beautiful rose with a very light airy scent. It should do well in my Toronto Garden … particularly if our winters have some snow cover that doesn’t melt away too quickly. So far this year there’s nice snow cover on the ground so I’m hoping my garden will be quite healthy come Spring.

Jacques Cartier explorer rose is a delight!

December 24, 2007 by Tricia

Join

This lovely quartered rose is Jacques Cartier. It’s a Canadian Explorer rose and it’s very hardy. Perfect for the Northern garden.

Not only can it withstand a harsh Canadian winter, but it smells lovely. It has the look of the an antique rose and the scent to go along with the look. It’s absolutely lovely.

Mine grows about 10 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide depending upon how much I prune it in the spring and later in the season. It’s kind of a floppy rose, but if staked it can look quite beautiful in the garden.

Like most roses it has thorns and Jacques Cartier’s are quite prickly! When I prune this rose during the summer I always end up missing some skin from my arms, hands and sometimes even my legs!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Aw so sweet!

December 19, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

If I had a newborn baby at home I’m not sure I’d love the dog licking the babies face, but this sure is cute! I love photos of dogs and kids, don’t you?

When I first moved to Toronto I lived with my sister. She had two dogs at home – a German Sheppard and the Sheppard’s daughter – a mix that was probably half Doberman. The dogs were great and very protective.

Shortly after I moved into a place of my own my sister got pregnant and had twins. The dogs were wonderful with the babies and I’m pretty sure that I’ve got some photos of the dogs with the babies that are similar to the one above.

Collecting Pollen

December 16, 2007 by Tricia

Join

I have a lot of bees that enjoy the flowers in my garden. I’m actually allergic to bumble bees and hornet stings so I guess I’m lucky that for the most part I’ve got more friendly bumble bees around than any of the other stinging bees.

This lovely bumble bee is collecting pollen from a Malva sylvestra flower. This flower is very easy to grow as it’s a hybrid of the native mallow that grows throughout North America.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Collateral damage?

December 14, 2007 by Tricia

I just love my little puppy, Midnight. She’s only been with us for about three weeks now, but she’s definitely grown on us!

That’s probably because we have to constantly watch the mischievously little girl. If she disappears from our sight for a minute or two she’s bound to be found trying to jump up at something she shouldn’t be trying to get or trying to get into something like the garbage.

Yesterday morning I was upstairs and my husband was in the basement getting ready to have a shower. Midnight was safely tucked away in her training crate. We always put a few chew toys in with her and it sounded like she was going nuts playing with her toys, but as it turned out she was up to no good.

You see, on top of her training crate is the box the crate came in. My husband put it there just after he put the cage together and we’ve been using that area as a place to put our winter coats since we go in and out with the puppy several times each day. Remember we don’t have any closets on the main floor. We usually keep our coats on coat hangers in the basement hallway, but leaving them on top of the crate has been working out just fine … until Thursday morning that is.

The hood of my winter coat, with it’s faux fur trim, fell victim to our playful puppy. I guess when Chris took the puppy out in the morning he must have moved my coat a bit when he got his own and the hood must have been hanging over the edge just enough for our puppy to reach it with her inquisitive little mouth. She probably latched onto it and pulled it down enough to really start chewing on it!

In the end … my hood was still intact but some of the buttons that had held it onto the coat were gone ( we found them) and oh … about a handful of faux fur littered the bottom of her cage. Hopefully she didn’t swallow too much of that stuff!

I imagine that she was probably looking up at my coats hood just like she is in this photo. Of course in this photo she’s looking up at my husband hoping he’ll give her a treat … but a coat hood to tear apart is yet another treat to a silly puppy too isn’t it?

That’s the first item of either Chris or I’s that she’s managed to damage in any way. We’ve probably been lucky so far. I’m sure by the time she’s a year old I’ll have a list as long as my arm of things she’s destroyed!

If you’d like to see more pictures of our puppy and hear more about how playful she is check out the post I wrote titled Sheâ€™s not chewsy at all and a great photo of her on my photoblog.