Wordless Wednesday
Words escape me!
Do you grow … Grass? I do
Blue Fescue grass that is. What were you thinking? That I only grow flowers? Nah … I grow grasses too. The grasses are sometimes the first plants to green up in my garden in early spring and the last to die down when winter arrives.
I believe this is Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’ – It’s common name would be Elijah blue Fescue. Its a cool season, clump forming grass with power blue narrow foliage that grows about 4 to 8 inches tall. Mine, with it’s flowers is taller than that – perhaps closer to a foot in height.
This is a fairly easy grass to grow in the garden along side perennials or annuals. It can be grown in full sun to light shade in well draining soil. This grass is also drought and heat tolerant so it can stand some abuse.
Do you grow grass?
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The baseball crowd loved the music
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This weeks theme is Music
Last Friday my husband and I and pretty much the rest of my family went to a Blue Jays versus the Seattle Mariners baseball game here in Toronto.
It was a great game. The Blue Jays won of course – after making several home runs! Oh and some of the cast of Heroes attended the game too and I was able to get some photos of them. That was interesting. I love that show.
After the game, when we were walking along the walkway leading from the stadium to Front Street we came across a man playing the accordion. I guess the crowd was in a jovial mood because as people passed the musician they broke out into dance.
I think that’s the musician right behind the man in blue who appears to be having a great time dancing to the music.
Oh and on Sunday and Monday we went to the beach. There was a live band at one of the bars we walked by on the beach and I can’t remember what song they were playing, but they sounded just like the band they were copying. Hmmm who knows maybe they were the real band?
On the beach people were playing volleyball, swimming, sunbathing, flying kites and even I’m sure I saw someone with a model rocket. I certainly hope they didn’t set it off at the beach. It was crowded!
The last of the sunflowers
Wordless Wednesday
I won’t have sunflowers for much longer and it’s not due to our weather getting cooler. It’s because of a city bylaw notice.
Yesterday we got a notice from the city that we have one week to trim our sunflowers down to three feet as they are over grown and I suppose obstructing our driveway view. Well darn … we don’t use our driveway much – we only drive our car about once a week. Grrrr.
You can’t trim sunflowers, they die when you cut them in half … plus some of our sunflowers only have flowers at the top.
I guess I’ll be saying good bye to our flowers and the yellow finches that love to sit in them and eat the seeds.
This one reseeds itself well!
I believe that this flower is called Scabiosa. I grew these flowers from seed about four or five years ago in my front garden beds and ever since then they come up on their own all over the place. Lets just say they are hardy and they reseed themselves quite well.
This one happens to be growing in one of my planters. I didn’t plant it, it just came up on it’s own. I’ve come to think of them as pretty weeds.
Sorry about the very late Green Thumb Sunday post. We had our big family reunion from Friday until Tuesday and I’m just now getting back to blogging. I’m also extremely tired!
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