Wordless Wednesday
I would love to have this shovel in my garden. Unfortunately it was just too expensive. Chris and I saw this fantastic shovel or lets say piece of metal artwork at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit last summer. I wanted it soooo bad!
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Lavender Dreams – what a lovely name for these tiny roses that bloom in clusters on a low growing rose bush.
My Lavender Dreams rose is growing in my front flower bed, but it’s in the shadow of the much taller Balloon flowers and a slightly taller roses so this photo has that sun dappled shade look to it.
The Lavender Dreams roses don’t seem to have any scent, but they make up for their lack of scent by putting out an almost continuous parade of blooms throughout the summer.
Another lovely lavender shaded flower that I grow in the front yard is this beautiful clematis.
We have a metal trellis attached to the bricks on the left corner of the house and the Clematis vine grows up the trellis each year. At least twice each season this clematis has a flush of beautiful pink to lavender flowers.
At this moment the vine is just heavy with flowers and it’s drooping badly. Yet it still looks beautiful.
Do you have any easy to grow vines like Clematis or easy care rose shrubs like Lavender dreams growing in your garden?
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My lilies are finally blooming! They started blooming last weekend and they are still going strong!
These lilies came with the house. There were tons of them, so many that I gave several away to neighbors and even threw some out!
I’m not sure why, but the first two or so years that we lived here the lilies were a paler or duller orange. However over the last few years the lilies seem to have become much more vibrant. They glow with their fiery orange and really stand out in the garden when they are in bloom. Same for the yellow and red ones that I grow.
I guess they are enjoying something in my soil. I just wish I knew what it was! Perhaps it’s the doses of Alfalfa tea that I make up and pour on the plants a few times each year. That really gives the roses a boost and I’ll bet it gives the lilies a boost too.
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Wordless Wednesday
The other weekend we took our Lab puppy to the beach for her first swim in Lake Ontario.
While we were there we met a lot of other dog owners and their dogs. We also ran into the couple that we had first met in April when we brought Midnight to Cherry Beach for the first time.
When we first met this couple and their puppy Molly both dogs were a lot smaller – yet close to the same size. As you can see from the photo above they look quite a bit a like (Midnight is on the left in the red harness) and they are almost the same size.
Trouble is … Midnight is almost four months older!
Midnight is slightly taller than Molly and she’s a little wider but otherwise it would be hard to tell the two dogs apart if it weren’t for their different colored collars.
Molly is going to be a lot bigger than Midnight soon!
