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Lovely hyacinths

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I’ve been enjoying my hyacinths this year. I don’t seem to have as many as other years though so the bulbs must be starting to die out. I’ll have to purchase more this fall for planting.This coral one is one of my favorites. I just love the color:

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Then there’s these pink ones. In this photo they were just starting to develop. I think this particular plant had sparse blooms too.

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Finally, there’s this deep blue hyacinth. I have some purple ones as well, but this one is more blue than purple, even though the photo makes it look purple.

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I hope that you’re enjoying this lovely Mother’s day weekend and spending some time with family.

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Yellow tulips and Glory of the Snow- beautiful spring flowers

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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.

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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?

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New plants for the garden

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This past Sunday we spent some time cleaning up our back and front garden beds as well as our boulevard and it was nice to see how many plants had already started to grow beneath the leaves and yes, even under the snow.

We even discovered that some of the ground that had been covered in leaves and dead foliage was still quite frozen. Forget about planting some of the new spring plants I’d purchased that day! Hopefully I’ll get out and plant them today as I’m sure the ground is thawed now.

When we went shopping for some new garden plants I saw a lovely pink hydrangea that I wanted to buy. I’m not sure how hardy it is so I’ve been keeping it inside our front porch, but I’ll plant it out in the garden at some point and see how it does:

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Isn’t that gorgeous?

We have a hardy pink hydrangea in the back garden and it looks like it survived the winter just fine. It has new sprouts coming up. Hopefully it will bloom for me this year as it didn’t last year.

What’s happening in your garden this week?

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Spring gardens change day by day

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I can’t wait until my front yard garden bed starts to look like this again!

The front of our yard faces north and as a result there’s still more snow there than anywhere else on our property. Oh, the snow’s pretty much melted off the garden beds, but there’s still a fair amount on the lawn. Luckily it’s warmed up quite a bit here in Toronto this week/ weekend and it will be above freezing all week (I think and hope). So that last bit of snow will be gone soon.

There’s enough garden exposed now that I can see plants starting to push their way through the earth and it’s definitely time that I got out there and cleaned up the garden beds a bit.

The front boulevard still has some sunflower stalks! They were cut down a bit in the fall but there are still a few stalks that are three feet tall or so and lots of other dead foliage, garbage that has blown into the tangle of dead plants and so on. Of all my garden beds I’d say the front boulevard needs the most tidying.

I only have a few tulips planted in the boulevard, but my front garden beds are just full of spring flowers. It will be a few weeks before tulips like the ones above and the one below begin to bloom, but now that I can see that there’s life in the garden I’m more than happy to wait.

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I love spring. As a gardener it’s truly an exciting time. You can look out at your garden in the morning and notice the tips of a plant beginning to poke through the earth and by late afternoon the plant might have emerged a few more inches. The garden can change daily or even more often. It’s quite amazing.

Have you noticed how quickly things grow in your garden in the spring? Isn’t it a wonder?

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