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Lavender Dreams

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

This is a cute little rose that I grow in my front yard garden bed. It’s called Lavender dreams.

It would be nice if it has a scent, but as far as I can detect the flowers don’t smell. Luckily when it blooms there’s tons of tiny flowers in large clusters so that helps make up for the lack of scent.

If you’re looking for a low maintenance low growing rose for your garden I’d recommend Lavender Dreams. I’ve never given it much care at all and it doesn’t seem to get powdery mildew or any other types of problems that plaque many of the commonly popular roses.

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Can you say Couch Potato?

January 16, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Midnight watching TV while on the couch with my husband:

A few minutes later – fast asleep:

Our puppy likes to spend some quality time with my husband each evening.

They play some ball and then Midnight will often climb up on the couch with him and chew on her toys while she either sprawls in his lap or lies at his feet.

Notice that she has her favorite squeaky toy and her chew tire beside her? She loves those toys and they’ve held up fairly well to her sharp baby teeth and constant chewing.

There are more cute photos of Midnight on my main blog Tricia’s Musings and also a funny sleeping pose of hers on Odd Planet.

It feels like Spring around here

January 12, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Skinny

The weather’s been fairly nice hear in Toronto over the last week or so. We had a bit of a warm spell. Of course this was right after a major freeze so it was quite welcome!

The weathers been warm enough that on some days it felt downright spring like! So I guess it’s only fitting that I decided to post a photo of a lovely spring flower called Chionodoxa.

You can purchase Chionodoxa in most stores that sell spring bulbs. They come in white, pink and blue. Of course the blue – as seen above – is really more of a pale purple or mauve.

These flowers bloom in the late spring in clusters. I love seeing their masses of skinny petaled blooms each year. I think the flowers last about three weeks before the flowers and the plant begin to die down as the heat of summer begins to arrive.

A perennial geranium

January 6, 2008 by Tricia

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This is a delicate Johnson’s Blue Geranium. The flowers are very small at only about an inch in diameter and it’s petals are iridescent.

This perennial geranium blooms two or three times each year.

I took this photo at the beginning of October when the plant was near the end of it’s last flowering of the year.

It’s a very nice companion plant. I grow it beside heurchera, astilbe and some roses.

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Delicious Pollen

January 5, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Delicious

I’m pretty sure this gentle Bumble Bee found the pollen that it was collecting from my New York Asters to be delicious. Actually on the day that I took the photo, October 1st, there were several bumble bees milling around the Asters and other flowering plants. Perhaps dozens!

They didn’t mind me getting close to take some photos. They were set on their business of collecting perhaps some of the last flower pollen of the year before it began to cool down here. Good thing too because winter came early to this part of the world!

I hope that all of my visitors are enjoying the new year and I wish you all health and happiness!