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Yellow tulips and Glory of the Snow- beautiful spring flowers

April 27, 2008 by Tricia

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.

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!

Crazy teen drivers

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

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.

Looking forward to fresh strawberries from the garden

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

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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?

Trying to work up the energy …

April 19, 2008 by Tricia

I’m lying on the couch watching the hockey game that I mentioned in my last post, Brantford’s winning BTW, and I’m trying to work up the energy to go outside and plant the plants I purchased a week and a half ago in my front garden.

I’m not feeling so hot today so it’s easy to just lie here and say I’ll do it tomorrow, but those plants (bare roots and bulbs) won’t last much longer. I’d better go out there.

As I sit on the couch I’ve been looking at the chandelier that we put up in the dining room … I swear when we finally finish putting in the tin ceiling, a drawn out reno project, I’ll be looking at chandeliers. I don’t think blue lighting will go all that well once we’re done the living room dining room renovation.

Ok, enough procrastinating … it’s off to the garden I go!

Our puppies growing up

April 15, 2008 by Tricia

Who couldn’t love this face?

Midnight is as excited about spring as I am. We got her at the end of November so she never really had much time to experience anything but snow.

Now she loves going outside and proves it by ringing the bell we placed on our front door all the time. She just wants out so that she can smell the grass, taste the garden beds, watch the birds, squirrels and pretty much anything that moves such as plastic bags blowing along the street.

I took this photo while we were sitting in the enclosed front porch. She was curious about the camera and I snapped a shot as she came up to me to take a look at the lense.

Isn’t she a cute puppy?

If you like funny puppy stories check out the post I just made on my main blog. Midnight got really excited about her food and showed us just how much she loved it!