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Yesterday I went into the city to attend a plant swap (more on that later…) and when I got home, Graham had installed two new beautiful wrought iron hooks on the front porch. Hanging from those hooks were two of the most beautiful hanging baskets I have ever seen! It’s May ninth....
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Last week we got another foot or so of snow…this winter has been very snowy!  Of course I took some photos of the back yard under all of that snow. I looked through some photos of the garden and yard this morning and the contrast between these photos of winter and summer in the garden...
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It’s tough to write about gardening during a Canadian winter.  Most of the time I feel like my posts about snow and rabbits and Ontario back yard wildlife will be achingly dull.  Then I remember that some of you don’t live in this climate and may even find visions of snow drifts fascinating.  At...
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Graham and I put up our Christmas tree yesterday.  This year we chose a Blue Spruce.  We both like the colour of this tree very much.  I noticed there were a few new varieties available in our local Rotary lot this year that I haven’t seen before.  In my family we’ve almost always had...
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This morning when I woke up, I saw this out the bedroom window: It seems Winter has officially arrived in the garden.
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