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Chicago Peace Hybrid Tea Rose

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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!

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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!

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Aw so sweet!

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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

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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.

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