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Blooms everywhere

June 15, 2008 by Tricia

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It’s amazing how quickly the garden changes at this time of year isn’t it? Two weeks ago I still had some tulips – like this beauty peeking out from around another plant –

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Now that tulip is gone, but it’s been replaced by blooming peonies, columbines, hundreds of roses, geraniums and more … I can’t even think of all the names of the flowers that are currently blooming in my garden right now. It’s a delight to walk out there though and smell the fragrance of all those roses at once.

Other short bloomers that are mostly gone now are/were my Dover Blue German Iris:

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These German Iris’ are still blooming. I think the only reason they’re still around after our storms and heat waves are because they’ve chosen to grow up into one of my large rose bushes this year. I guess they are getting a little more shade and staying cooler so they’ve lasted longer than they usually do.

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Is your garden full of blooms too?

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, My Garden, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: beauty, bloomers, blooms, columbines, Dover Blue, flowers, fragrance, garden changes, geraniums, German Iris, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, heat waves, peonies, rose bushes, roses, shade, smell, time of year, tulip, tulips

Lovely pink hellebores and variegated tulips

June 9, 2008 by Tricia

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Believe it or not, up until a few days ago at least, my Hellebores were still blooming.

I guess that goes a long way towards explaining how cold our May was here in Toronto! It’s cold no longer though, we’re currently having a major heatwave with temperatures in the 30 to 33 Celsius range ( that’s in the 90’s F) plus we’ve got humidity on top of the heat so it feels even hotter.

I haven’t checked the hellebores since this heat started, but this is what they looked like only a few days ago:

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My tulips were also lovely in May. This one is called the Canada Tulip I believe due to it’s red and white coloring:

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This tulip even has a cool looking flower bud. You can visit my photoblog Breath of Life to see it’s variegated bud if you’d like to.

I hope that you had a great weekend and that your Monday is going well. My Green Thumb Sunday post is late due to an allergic reaction that I had on Saturday. You can read more about it over at As the Garden Grows if you’d like.

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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Pansies everywhere!

June 1, 2008 by Tricia

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Earlier this year I noticed that my oval raised garden bed that breaks the patio area from the main backyard lawn area up was full of plants that I didn’t recognize at first. They were everywhere, choking off the roses, astilbe and other plants in that bed.

It didn’t take me too long to realize that I’d had a pansy explosion!

Now, back when I first started my garden in 2002 I planted some pansy and viola seeds and seedlings. The plants came up for a few years due to reseeding, but seemed to have died out by 2006 or so.

I didn’t really mind that the plants had disappeared as Pansies are only decent around here in the Spring and then the plants get leggy and floppy during our hot humid summers. So fine … I had better plants that could use that space.

Well .. I don’t know what happened this year. Maybe the seeds lying dormant in the earth really enjoyed the deep snow cover and extra spring moisture or perhaps, since this flower bed is very close to our two bird feeders – maybe some of the bird seeds we used had pansy seeds in it. I don’t know what happened … but suddenly I had a bed full of pansies.

Last weekend I pulled out most of the pansies. They were so thick I couldn’t even see my strawberry plants or the Phlox that was struggling to grow within the mass of pansy plants.

I have a few other plants that have come up this year that were missing in the last two or three years as well. Some Lily of the Valley that I’d planted at the back of the driveway that had never come up suddenly started to grow this year, and some daylilies that I had right near my front porch, that I thought had died out due to the dryness of the area a few years ago seem to have made an appearance this year. It had to be all that snow cover.

I know, you think I live in the North and we’ve probably got snow all winter long. However, here in Toronto that’s rarely the case. It will snow and then the snow melts away within a few days. This is hard on the plants because it’s fairly cold most winters, and without that protective layer of snow the plants are subject to wind and freezing temperature damage. Thats one reason why I often buy plants that are hardy to a zone or two lower than our supposedly USDA zone 5b rating.

Did you have any surprise plants pop up in your garden beds this year?

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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Blue Gentian – just about ready to bloom

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

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My garden will soon be bursting with blooms like this lovely Blue Gentian. I was just saying on my other blog that many of my plants are developing buds, but few are flowering right now.

Much like my puppy when she sees us eating or when she’s anticipating a treat I think I’m beginning to drool in anticipation of that sudden burst of blooms.

There’s nothing like the first spring blooms. Especially with roses. The flowers are usually larger than they are throughout the rest of the season and their colors are at their most vibrant.

I can’t wait.

Do you have a garden full of buds too or has yours exploded in bloom?

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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My favorite tulips are blooming

May 18, 2008 by Tricia

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Purple fringed tulips

My lovely purple fringed tulips are in full bloom right now so I’ve been trying to either peek outside or go out into the garden more often this week so I can enjoy them while they are in bloom.

It’s a shame that such a lovely flower doesn’t bloom more than a week or two isn’t it?

It’s cool and rainy here in Toronto today. Actually with the exception of two days this week it’s been a fairly cool month. So unless we get a sudden hot spell like we did at the end of April I’m pretty sure that my lovely tulips should last the better part of the week.

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I’m hoping that my bleeding hearts come up soon. I have them planted at the side of the house in an area that tends to get quite dry in the summer. I’m sure we lost a fern that had been planted there for the last few years due to lack of watering that area properly last year. Now I think we might have also lost the Bleeding Hearts. I’m sure it’s usually starting to come up by now most years.

Well, if we did lose the bleeding hearts at least I have some pretty pictures of it from years past!

How is your garden doing this spring weekend?

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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