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Messy Garage? Get organized

June 24, 2007 by Tricia

If you have a garage attached to your house you might appreciate the many products that are being sold at Carguygarage.com. You know how almost ever garage gets disorganized at some point? Well this site sells all the latest products in garage organization amongst many other items.

If your garage is so full that you can barely fit your car inside you’d better take a look at this site. They have everything from racks that will allow you to hang bikes from the wall, to cabinets and workbenches for those that use their garage as a workplace, or to store their tools.

We don’t actually have a garage. We barely even have a driveway! You can’t drive down our driveway … it’s only 10 feet or so wide and we only own half the driveway.

Even so, there are still items on this site that I would purchase such as the garden hose and cord reels. I mean, I’m a gardening nut and I hate having my hose just lying in a tangled pile! One of the hose reels even has four wheels on it so you could push your whole hose out to where you need to use it! I like that.

Check out the site. I’m sure you’ll find some products that will help you get your garage organized.

Head hung low

June 22, 2007 by Tricia

This isn’t the best photo that I’ve ever taken but I do love this flower. It’s a columbine or Aquilegia. Sometimes this flower is also called a honeysuckle but that’s a misnomer.

Isn’t it pretty? I love the pale mauve and the way the flower hangs it’s head.

I grow this beautiful flower in my garden. It’s a spring bloomer. Here in Toronto it blooms usually by mid May or so, and by this time of June it’s foliage is dying down and disappearing. In a little while you’d almost never know the plant was there.

Growing lilies

June 19, 2007 by Tricia

Don’t you just love the way lilies look when they are growing? I think they have sort of a pineapple look to them.

I grow several types of lilies. Tiger lilies, oriental lilies, hybrid lilies … you name it, I must have a couple hundred!

I took this photo about three weeks ago. Most of the lilies are now three to four feet tall and covered in flower buds. I’m sure they’ll bloom before the week is over.

My maturing garden

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

Muscari or Grape Hyacinths:

I can’t believe how much all of the plants in my garden have grown this past week or so.

I’m starting to think that it’s not just the nice weather that we’ve been having, nor the fact that our winter was fairly mild. No, I think it’s because many of the plants that I grow have been in my garden for four or five years so they are maturing and have good root systems so they are just growing in leaps and bounds because they are so strong.

The photo above is of Muscari. Yes the closest one is a bit blurry but you try taking photos of flowers in my windy backyard garden and see how you do! LOL I took that photo about two weeks ago. The muscari is pretty much gone now – gone to seed actually. I have to go out and cut off the old flowers so that they don’t drain the bulbs strength.

How’s your garden coming along this year?

Late spring bulbs blooming early

May 9, 2007 by Tricia

My garden is full of spring blooms! Since I started the garden in 2001, I think I’ve planted more than 3000 spring blooming bulbs.

I choose some that bloomed early – as in late March Crocus’, and others are early iris’ and tulips. Some like the Daffodil above, and other tulips are said to be late bloomers and often don’t bloom for me until Mid to Late May, but many of the late blooming bulbs that I planted already have buds or are already blooming.

Everything is early this year! I’m sure that’s because we had such a mild winter here in Toronto.

It’s starting to get quite warm here now too. The spring blooms won’t last much longer if it continues to be so warm so I’d better get out into that garden and enjoy the flowers.