Field of Hydrangeas

August 4, 2011
Field of Hydrangeas

Boy, have I been slacking in the blog department lately. I had all of these plans to be super productive in the garden during my vacation, posting about all I was accomplishing, but those plans just haven’t come to fruition. I’ve had Nate home with me all week, which I wasn’t expecting, and if you’re [...]

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A Week Off in the Garden

July 27, 2011
Herb Garden

I’m on vacation. I don’t have anywhere to go except out into the garden. My plan is to tackle a small section of the garden at a time, maybe even just a small area a day, and get this yard into shape. This morning I cleaned up the yard in general, putting away the toys, [...]

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Marigolds for Gramma

July 18, 2011
Marigolds

Whenever I deadhead my marigolds and their pungent aroma wafts through the air, I think of my Gramma, my mom’s mom. She always had huge, brilliantly blooming marigolds at the front of her house in downtown Oshawa. She and my Grampa lived on McMillan Drive for years and years, and the house my brother and [...]

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Tiny Grasshoppers

July 15, 2011
Two-Striped Grasshopper

I’ve been noticing a lot more of the insects in the garden this year, and we’ve had some interesting visitors. The green darner dragonfly that visited my hanging baskets in the front yard was pretty cool, but these little tiny vibrantly green grasshoppers are my new favourite visitors to the garden. Sure, they are eating [...]

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Bowmanville’s Magnificent Red Oak

July 13, 2011
Large Red Oak Tree in Bomwanville

On Canada Day Graham and I headed with Nate in the car over to the historic neighbourhood in our town of Bowmanville. Some of the houses in the area date back to the mid-nineteenth century, and we always enjoy looking at them and the gardens planted around them. (I have more photographs of those gardens [...]

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