Summer winding down means it's colchicum season!
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Comments (4)Glenda, I don't usually do too much to ready the garden for winter. I leave much of the cutting back until spring. I will cut back the peonies and the asters though and clean up the daylilies. Other than that it's usually just a matter of gathering up the ornaments (of which I don't have many becuase I spend so much on plants!) and getting hoses and sprinklers put away. Dahli22, we were fortunate that many large rocks were buried in the yard from when the road was blasted. When we built our house we had the guy doing the excavating put all the rocks he dug up in one corner of the yard. A few years later we hired someone who put them to good use. Schoolhouse, Thanks. I have tried to plan the garden for interest in all seasons. I do quite a bit of shopping in the fall when I can see what is most interesting then. There is so much great color in the foliage of so many plants in the fall. We limbed up an oak tree this year and the climbing hydrangea on it took on a great color. It was a nice, unexpected treat. Now if it would ever bloom.......See MoreZone 3 season winding down
Comments (13)Thanks for the comments everyone! Bill, I lived in Kanata so was on your side of Ottawa. As a kid, my pals and I spent many summer days biking on Richardson's Side Road, stopping to catch frogs and salamanders in the many ponds, collecting rocks in the abandoned quartz/mica quarry, or fishing for pike and catfish in the Carp Creek/River. Of course in those days it was a deserted rural road, which I doubt is the case anymore... Anyway, I hope the frost misses you for a few more weeks. We seem to have a got a reprieve here, with the lowest night temps for the next 2 weeks now forecast to be low 40s, which is good since 41F is supposed to be the average low this time of year. Definitely getting the yoyo weather here... high of 81F yesterday, 57 today. No mistaking what's coming though, the early-turning trees like ash trees already have lots of yellow in them and other trees are starting to get hints of colour now too. And in an early-winter year, even this can happen by now, haha:...See MoreTis the Season to Say What You Mean...Or Just Be Mean...Or...
Comments (34)Well, today is going much better. (Of course I am probably jinxing myself.) I went to the library and spoke to a few acquaintances who all remembered me and none of whom told me I had ratty hair or pimples. The Kindle Fire session went more smoothly, thanks to Frances I think I have figured out a thing or two or three. I think the problem is just plain old slowness. What I took for nonresponse is just plain slowness. I need to wait...wait...wait...wait a little more...voila! Being used to lightning fast responses on my work and home computers, I have become spoiled. It's not that bad, but it is definitely slow. And my two Kindles work differently - my old Kindle can receive books just about anywhere but my new Kindle Fire can only receive books if it has a wireless connection. Except for library books, which are a whole different animal. Yes, it is a learning experience. Anyway, I am tired of Christmas, not the spiritual beautiful part, but the I-don't-have-time-to-be-nice-to-you-because-I-have-better-things-to-do part. I will be glad when the holidays are over and my friends don't hang up on me because they are busy and stressed. I don't have the busy stressed part, because I pretty deliberately eliminated it quite some time ago. For instance, we don't exchange gifts in my family as a general rule. We all agreed quite some time ago that we all have too much stuff. But today is beautiful. It is snowing lightly and looks gorgeous. I'm so happy to have some snow that does not come part and parcel with a huge and ferocious storm. This is lightly falling, moderate temp, no wind, only half-an-inch expected snow. And yes, this is all tongue-in-cheek, I'm hope I have generated a bit of laughter!...See MoreFinally posting as season winds down
Comments (13)Hi Celeste! Lots of great looking daylilies, and rather than list the favorites, I name the color {purple--surprise!] Spirit of the Dove is still on my want list, such a beautiful flower and color. Glad to see you have a rebloom on such a pretty one. Shuffle the Deck is outstanding and I can't wait for my Claudine's Charm to become a large clump like yours. I was having the same problem as you in posting, some will, some won't. Most of my pictures were the same size but some wouldn't post and many took a long time, yet others quickly all within the same posts. Made no sense. I started resizing them ALL to around 1000+- pixels and that ended all my problems--all post quickly and all post. I just saved the resized photos to the desktop, and then deleted them when all done. If you don't have a quick easy way to resize, download Irfanview and its plug-ins. Takes a matter of seconds to resize once you've done a few and get the hang of it. https://www.irfanview.com/...See Moremxk3 z5b_MI
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