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Last summer, I took a trip down memory lane ... visited the Star Lake area for the first time in over a decade and brought back a few pics.
Now, it's time ta show the wilderness of the Great White North, in the summertime (Actually these pics are of an area lower than the 49th parallel)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-01.jpg)
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last pic was a view north a the "Big Star Lake" where the creek seperates the Big and the Small. I think this next one's a southern creek view of the Small Star Lake's eastern shore
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-02.jpg)
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Ro...those are very nice! (pfft...not a good photographer!)
love the colors in the first but the second is my favorite...feels very "you are there"; I like the way the trees look like they are in the process of falling over into the lake!
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One more ... the road leadin up to that same creek - all photos were takin around 7 pm
Was a beautiful blue sky day - but then we get lots a them up in the dryish climate a the Timmins area
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looks like a warm nice day...make you miss the heat up there in the snow??!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
kinda envy ya'll up north that have such clear seasons
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This here's a view a little ta the right a the first photo.
I think I started this thread ta show some wilderness, but also ta share some a my youth revisited ... and ta hopefully help me get through the rest a this (last?) cold spell a winter - temperatures reached -32C (-26F) yesterday mornin! (with the wind chill factor)
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Beautiful photos, I love going back to those old places I knew as a child, if they still remain. They look so small.
Look forward to those summer evenings, too.
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so Roland, did you swim? boat? fish?
ever hunt?
how did you spend those short Canadian summers??
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so Roland, did you swim? boat? fish?
ever hunt?
how did you spend those short Canadian summers??
Hunh?!? Fish - you plannin on sendin yer brood (Don, D & Jeff) on a fishin trip up north?
(Don't tell Garry - he's likely ta get mighty jealous!!)
Naw I'm a city boy - don't do none a them outdorsy things. I'm way too tasty ta the mosquitos
My sister (Claudette), however, she could spend the whole summer in the bush with her family. The occasion fer those pics was an invite ta supper at the 'Rod 'n Gun' where her family had settled fer part a the summer last year. Will likely be postin some (long range) pics a the place later.
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Hunh?!? Fish - you plannin on sendin yer brood (Don, D & Jeff) on a fishin trip up north?
(Don't tell Garry - he's likely ta get mighty jealous!!)
Naw I'm a city boy - don't do none a them outdorsy things. I'm way too tasty ta the mosquitos
My sister (Claudette), however, she could spend the whole summer in the bush with her family. The occasion fer those pics was an invite ta supper at the 'Rod 'n Gun' where her family had settled fer part a the summer last year. Will likely be postin some (long range) pics a the place later.
you don't like mosquitoes?? come on...they only itch for a minute!!
:P
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you don't like mosquitoes?? come on...they only itch for a minute!!
:P
Maybe yer littl'ns, Over here they looove sweeet meeat like mine - and when one new bite starts up, a dozen former bites act up - so I itch all over - seriously, I'm a true victim! - hard ta explain, really, but a new bite could stay with me fer weeks!
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sounds like you are allergic. definitely one of those that NEED to use OFF when you are outside.
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I love birch trees
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Friend, I would like to share with you my first visit to the Dominion of Canada. It was the strangest 38 minutes I had lived until that point.
My nephew was going to school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and after most of a day at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, I pestered him to take us all to Canada so we could say we had been. He said okay, but under no circumstances were we to respond to the crossing guard that the purpose of our trip was to in anyway malign the Queen, as his buddy had been thrown in jail overnight for making an off color remark about her to a crossing guard.
So we went south to Canada, I know, but that was what we did, we drove south from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario. We passed from sky scrapers to neatly laid off squares and Esso Stations, something I had not seen in many years.
We drove down to a park on the river, a large convention center had a banner out that they were having a Star Trek Convention, right then, but no one seemed to be around except this 6 ft. 5 in. Amazon woman on rollerskates who was selling cans of coke from a cooler for a dollar each. She was my first exposure to the amazing mental gymnastics involved with currency exchange that it seems all in the public sector in Canada must be familiar with to function.
Walking thru the park there was a Mexican Gospel Mariachi Band playing, extolling the virtues of Jesus in Spanish, that got old quick, so we went down the street to a middle easter owned antique store. We were greeted at the door by the proprietor who was telling another man you had to watch every single person that comes in the shop because they will rob you blind and then turns to us, smiling, "welcome, please come in".
I puttered around and found an old tinted postcard of the Sunken Garden there in Windsor. I think it was 75 cents. I handed my American dollar to the nervous woman at the counter and she opened her cash register drawer, Canadian Money on one side, American Money on the other side, calculated the exchange in her head, wrote me out a hand written receipt that was larger than the post card, with the GST, PST and the other tax on it. (I later framed them together and hung it in my bedroom).
Exiting the store, we were soon followed by an obese couple with developmental disabilities, the woman practically yelling at the man: "It doesn't' matter, nothing will ever be the same again".
I told my nephew I was satisfied and hungry, lets go back. 8)
And that is my story.
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:laugh: :laugh:
well at least you got to go outta the coutry!!
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Hey Tru
sounds like the story of this man I met in Detroit. Told me "Yea, I've been ta Canada. Went taTilbury"! (I didn't know WHAT he was talkin about) "You sure grow a lot a tobacco in Canada" he said.
He'd seen just a very small (not at all typical) part a the country - had travelled less than an hour in southern Ontario - and had assumed that the entire country was like that! (I know a lot about my country, and I wasn't even sure where Tilbury was, or where tobacco was grown in this country!!!)
What yer seein in this thread is typical of more than 3/4 of Ontario and Quebec and is aso very similar to about 85% of the maritimes (including Newfoundland and Labrador) an a good chunk a Manitoba too.
As the song said "I've been everywhere boy" (in North America, anyways) - even been ta prob'ly mor'n 20 American States
Really hard ta qualify the second largest country in the world with only a 35 minutes trip over the border (or even an hour!)
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Roland, Roland, Roland
Your "Tilbury" friend in Detroit was probably following the words of a good Canadian.
Not my favourite music man, but he is(was) better than ok
He's still around.
The tobacco town he sang about was Tilsonburg
and I guess the guy in Detroit knew it - almost.
MMM did he visit or just hear the song, I wonder.
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(Stompin') TOM CONNORS - Tilsonburg
Hey Tom, You ever been to Tilsonburg?
Tilsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that word
While, a way down Southern Ontario
I never had a nickle or a dime to show
A fella beeped up in an automobile
He said "You'll want to work in the Tobacco field's of
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
He said I'll only give ya seven bucks a day
But if you're any good you'll get a raise in pay
Your beds already on the bunkhouse floor
If it gets a little chilly ya can close the door
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
I was feelin' in the morning anything but fine
The farmer said I'm gonna teach ya how to brame
He said ya gotta dawn a pair of oil skin pants
If ya want to work in the Tobacco plants of
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
We landed in a field that was long and wide
With one ol' horse and five more guys
I asked them where to find the cigarette trees
When he said bend over I was ready to leave
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
He said just to pick the bottom leaves
And don't start crawling on your hands and knees
Prime your load cause you'll get no pay
For standin' there pickin' at your nose all day 'round
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
With a broken back bendin' over there
I was wet right through to the underwear
And it was stuck to my skin like glue
From the nicotine tar on the morning dew of
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
Now the nearest river was two miles from
The place where they was waitin' for the boat to come
When I heard some talk of makin' the kill
I was down the highway and over the hill from
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
Now there is one thing you can always bet
If I never smoke another cigarette
I might get taken in alot of deals
But I won't go workin' the tobacco fields of
Tilsonburg [Tilsonburg] x2
My back still aches when I hear that word
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I enjoy the Americans who wander all over Newfoundland and Labrador, but they seem to have become rarer, and the braver types. Too bad that more and more Americans are staying at home now. I like them.
Love your photos.
And yes Roland, your photos do resemble many parts of Newfoundland and Labrador,
but not all parts of our province.
ps we do have the Atlantic Ocean.
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Since my initial visit I have spent several days in Montreal, visited Waterton Park in Alberta, and took a long rambling ride from Alaska thru Yukon, staying in Yellowknife, and back to Skagway. The Canadian Rockies are a breathtakingly beautiful place.
One of my favorite memories from that road trip was the Raven in Dawson City, walking down the middle of the street talking to him or herself.
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Sounds awsome Tru!
The west coast; been there on a couple a occasions, the last of which was over 20 years ago. (*As it really been that long? - yea 1986*)
I did my one and only cross country (american side) trip ta San Francisco (God was Utah beeyouteefull) on a motorcycle, and then up the Pacific coast ta British Columbia. For some reason, it rained somethin fierce drivin through Oregon and Washington - and the temperatures never climbed over 70 F so by the time I got ta Abbotsford, in BC, I just wanted ta get home! Didn't bother visitin Vancouver (they had the expo that year!) Drove through the (Canadian) Rockies and Prairies at a pace that didn't allow fer much sight seein ...
Am planin a trip ta the Alberta reunion this July though - haven't finalized - drivin, takin the train, or flyin yet - but I'm definitively goin!
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Hey Toast,
Been lookin at a map online.
Tilbury's (pop 4 500) only 'bout 50 km(30m) from the Canadian/American boarder (south a lake St. Clair), while Tillsonburg (pop 14 000) is east a London, near Guelph. Been ta Paris Ontario pretty frequently in the past 5 years (only 40km/25 m north east aTillsonburg), and didn't see any tobacco growin out there. Maybe there useta be some, 30 years ago when Tom was writin most a his songs, or possibly Tom used the similar soundin name a town, to suit his rhymes.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/Tilbury_Farm.jpg)
Tilbury area farm - notice how flat it is!
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loving your pics Roland...reminds me of the sights and smells of the woods when I was young.
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We did the trip from SF to Seattle, on the Pacific Coast Highway, 45 mph for 5 days, in November. Beautiful country and not much in the way of traffic that time of the year. The rain started at the Oregon border and never quit. :laugh:
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Cool pictures!! I have always wanted to visit that area! I should schedule it the trip after Alberta!!
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Merci beaucoup Lee -
More where those came from - will be postin one a day fer a while
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OOps Roland
I stand corrected about Tilbury
Your friend in Detroit knew what he was talking about.
Cool
I'll be checking in on your pics
They look great this time of the year - without the snow and ice.
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OOps Roland
I stand corrected about Tilbury
Your friend in Detroit knew what he was talking about.
Cool
I'll be checking in on your pics
They look great this time of the year - without the snow and ice.
I never doubted the man's story, but my memory a what he'd said ...
Seemed to me I had solved the dilema a where he was talkin 'bout within a week (Prob'ly on my return from Detroit)
Still yer post was educational, re Tom Connor's song
Appreciated yer imput.
Now when can we expect ta see some Rock pics from the Great White North? Hunh?
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On this (and a number a subsequent) pic, I attempted ta portray the rocky outcrops that abound and define the 'Canadian Shield'
Thought they'd be bigger around Timmins, but I was wrong - that's my sister in my little escort.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-10.jpg)
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Picture lookin south from the Arctic Watershed - which means, rainwater fallin in front a this spot will drain inta the Atlantic ocean (through the great lakes), and water fallin behind where I'm standin will drain towards the Arctic ocean (through Hudson Bay). Photo taken earlier on the trip, some 90 minutes outta Timmins.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-11.jpg)
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In the 60's, when we had a cottage near here, there was no electricity. Dad had bought a very loud generator than ran on gasoline and wired the cottage up, which allowed us ta not only have the best beach property of both lakes, but also gave us electricity (for peek hours only) and indoor plumbing. Towrds the end a the decade, after havin paid only 2 000$ fer the property, and having made improvements to the tune a 3 000$, Dad sold it to family friends fer cost! - It was worth at least 3 times as much. Visited the lot on this trip, took some shots ... the place is unrecognizable - really expensive house, landscaping, the works ... Prob'ly worth 250 000$ (The church in town - a large one just sold fer the same price!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-12.jpg)
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Dif'rent perspective a the same rock outcrops ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-14.jpg)
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Here's a really poor picture a me, taken by my sister :-\ showin the sign where, along this road, the waters divide - behind me, rainfall will flow north, in front a me the rivers flow south (then east).
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-15.jpg)
cool glasses though! 8)
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ok...why can I not see the pics?? some of them have little red xs ...and others are just blank!!
(aww, there is your little white Escort!! it was a two door! and so cute!)
dang... :(
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ok...why can I not see the pics?? some of them have little red xs ...and others are just blank!!
(aww, there is your little white Escort!! it was a two door! and so cute!)
dang... :(
I think, because of the size of the pictures, the speed of your server, and the number of pictures on each page, that amount of information takes a lot of time to show up. I believe the 'just blank' pics are not finished trying to upload, and the 'little red xs' have given up. After there are no more blanks, try left clicking a red x and click on 'show picture' just one picture at a time - might get the trick done... but I'm no Bryan (or Garry)
Here's my sister again, on a much larger rock outcrop with plenty a vegetation (mosses, grasses, lichen, even trees). And that little rock statuette was already there when we got there.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-16.jpg)
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Looks like Jeannine (my sister) can take good pictures - this one ain't bad ...
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I love the look of a grey agin windin road cuttin through a natural northland forest - shame 'bout the 'lectricity poles
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Awright - here we are back on Big Star Lake. The view is from the Rod 'n Gun Club, across the lake from where my family enjoyed cottage life in the 60's. Tamarrow's pic will give ya a close up a the lot and 'chateau' that now inhabits the property where I usta get up real early, before anyone else did, ta get wild blueberries fer my breakfast cereal. (I can still hear the loon call echoein over the lake...)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-23.jpg)
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(It's great ta have a good camera ...) Here's a close up a yesterday's photo, showing from across the lake, the lot on which we cottaged in the 60's. Of course, the property's been lanscaped and prettied up since then (even in town they don't do that kinda stuff!) - but this property was this special that it deserved ta be owned by people who could transform it ... more photos will follow ...
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OK - Here we are lookin at a very transformed lakefront property that we used ta know in the 60's. Picture's taken from the dock. Behind me's the boat house.
The thing that made this the best property on the lake was the long distance you could walk out and still be in waist deep water. The other properties I was aware of, (the neighbours, the Rod 'n Gun club [across the lake], even the parish owned camp site) you would sink to below your neck within a dozen (or two) yards.
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A while ago, I posted a picture of the lake from the Rod & Gun, looking towards the former family property (including a close up).
Well here now's the view from the property (still on the dock) lookin across the lake towards the Rod & Gun. (close up to follow)
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I don't know what I did (prob'ly adjusted the focus) but the Rod 'n Gun looks closer on this picture, taken a little further, along the house.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-32.jpg)
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Here's the close-up of the Rod 'n Gun from the last photo.
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Almost done with last summer's pics. this is the mansion, as seen from the dirt road. In the 60's the cottage, as I recall, was hardly visible though the natural vegetation (and the driveway was on the left side a the house)
Practically looks like a city house, don't it?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-34.jpg)
Can't believe they think of this as paradise - reminds me a Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi lyrics'"
'They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot'
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The dirt road forked up right in front of our entrance - straight ahead in this view, is the dead end (a few other cottages), left takes ya to where the two lakes are joined by the little creek (not very far away) where the first pictures of this thread were taken.
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Here's the last picture I took during that trip last summer - last picture from the Timmins area for a while. Might be posting some pics here from my garden, once it starts up again - take you through the various growing periods fer the different perennials Bryan's planned in my garden. Also, I'm still expecting to make the Alberta pigramage - so more pics from that will likely show up here later this summer.
Just a lovely picture I took from the road in the Star Lake area ... (musta been 8 pm or later by his time)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/Timmins/06-07-36.jpg)
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These are beautiful pictures, Roland! Thank you for sharing them with us. I especially love the lake pictures.
I've loved Canada the couple of times I visited. We drove up to Vancouver from Seattle one year to go to Whistler/Blackcomb for skiing four or five years ago.
And we drove up from Vermont to Montreal one April probably 10+ years ago when the weather turned too warm to ski and all the snow melted. I didn't think we were ever going to get there...flat flat farmland, but so green you're blinded. It was my birthday so we splurged on fancy restaurants and pastries and wandered the beautiful cobblestone streets. Everyone we met was welcoming and nice.
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Why - Thang Kew, Lynne
I've not travelled extensively west of Ontario (but I've been to just about every corner of Ontario & Québec) and about the prettiest area I've enjoyed is the Gaspé Penninsula. Even Québecois (I know, I have relatives) don't appear ta be aware a the beauty to be found on the south shores of the St-Laurent River and Gulf. Most people go through the park that cuts through the penninsula ta get ta the Maritimes or to Percé.
Oh, and of course, P.E.I. is truly precious. They say that Cape Breton Island is spectacular too, but it's always been outta reach, in my travels.
Seems like we're gonna be rediscoverin the Rockies together, come July!
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Seems like we're gonna be rediscoverin the Rockies together, come July!
Absolutely! I'm going to try to get one of those Lonely Planet travel books next week and get busy on planning my camping and other lodging.
My good friend Gary and his fiancee have explored Alberta, spent a lot of time in Banff, and also Newfoundland and PEI, I believe. I get postcards and am always jealous! I need to get after him to post some of his Alberta pictures here, or somehow share them with me so I can post them - generate some excitement! As a matter a fact, I'm sending him some email next!
Their wedding is in late September in Northhampton, MA - wouldn't miss it for the world, so I guess I'll fly into Boston, although I know Hartford would be a bit closer. I want to reconnect with some Boston friends then head west.
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Some practice run 'sunrise project' pics:
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huge dif'rence between the 6:15 picture & the 6:30 picture!
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man I REALLY like the colors in the clouds in that second picture, Roland...
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OK since it's finally gonna start bein spring like, I thought I'd start postin some a the growth happenin at this point.
Bryan hasn't been over in 10 days and I believe he'll find that there's been quite a lotta growth since last he saw the yard.
Fist, the early tulip bed...
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I remember tulips. Back before the deer moved into town they used to grow, now the deer bite the heads off like a lolly pop.
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Here are the paper whites, giant alliums, daffies and some later blooming tulips. (15 degrees outside taday - expecting 22C by Sunday)
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That second photo was on the south side of the front of the yard (lookin west) This is a south-eastern view of the north side of the front yard - again, mostly late bloomin near-black tulips - a new flowerbed,who's cement block border has yet ta settle into place - still needs fixin
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Now in the back yard, there are these double bloom daffies that I hope will be bloomin within a week (view north, near the house)
This was the impromptu flower bed Bryan 'created' 'bout 4 years ago, when we had too many plants still in pots, not knowin where we were gonna put em. - they took real nicely in spite a the real bad quality a the dirt!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-04-19-04.jpg)
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Course, the garlic's still multiplyin like wildfire discouraging squirrels from damaging plants in the area (this is real close to where the tomoto plants will go)
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Finally, the area that most needs cleaning up this year - so full a grasses, is the area near the sidewalk on the south side of the property, front yard. Iris have multiplied like crazy - they're growing outta the flower bed into the grass areas (the borders will sure help things seperated!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-04-19-06.jpg)
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Wow, I hope my Iris from Lightnin' Flatts will multiply like that. It is doing well, my neighbors have some blooing already.
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man, it is not gonna be long before you are gonna be covered up in flowers! that is cool I like seeing how things change.
Thank you! I don't do flowers it is nice to see yours!
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Jess insisted that there was no such thing as an ugly daffy - boy is she wrong!!!
Took these pictures moments ago!
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those are not UGLY>>they are unusual though...
I kinda like them!
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Another variety of daffy opened up this afternoon (two more ta go). Ain't exactly showin up the neighbourhood yet (that starts when the tulips arrive) however, here's a good picture a the two-toned (cream & yellow) variety a daffy. Got a half dozen hyacinth showin in the main tulip flower bed, and the first 'starbust' variery a daffies showin in here too. (the new flower bed I dug up taday is behind me in this photo.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-04-22-01.jpg)
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Things are growing! What with the rain, and in spite a the cool weather (below 50*F) things have been bloomin, and greenin up.
Here's a third variety a daffies ... double bloom daffodils, a follow up ta reply # 65 (this patch is in the back yard).
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OK back ta the front yard, view from the sidewalk - can see 4 of the 5 clusters a daffies in the front yard, and in the main tulip row, near a dozen hyacinths
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-04-28-02.jpg)
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This view is a bit of a update on reply #64. It shows the last (smaller) clump a daffies in the foreground. The tulips should start flowerin this week (if we get warm weather), although these in the foreground are later bloomin near-black tulips. Mixed in among em are upside-down tulips (frutenellas?) - they stink and keep the squirrels from diggin up the bulbs. Hope ta have the whole front yard's flowerbeds surrounded by the cement block borders by the end a the summer.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-04-28-03.jpg)
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Roland! Those double bloom daffies are glorious!!! I love all those bulb flowers. Bearded iris are my favourites but daffies are high on the list too. My ex husband once gave me 500 daffodil bulbs as a birthday present. The catch was I was the one who had to plant them! LOL
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Glad ya like em there Jocelyn. Like em double bloomers too!
This here's the last pic I took taday. It a view of how busy the main flower bed's gonna be with the early bloomin tulips (I think I have 4 or 5 early bloomers a tulips and a couple or 3 varieties a later bloomers)
Also, the view from that vantage point is my mornin view in the summertime, when I chose ta go outside ta read, have breakfast, and basically just watch the neighbourhoud walk by. (the new flowerber,bout 2 square meters, is just behind that tallish plant in the upper right corner)
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Almost fergot ta mention - the reason I took this picture was ta show off the hyaciths in full bloom.
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looks like a wonderful retreat Roland...
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looks like a wonderful retreat Roland...
Now you just wait until those poppies and such plants grow ta near 3 feet - then it'll look more like a retreat. Haven't even taken out the table & chairs yet. Cora - the dog, usta love lyin down on the cool/humid grass just beyond that bed & the second one (the one that looks like tall weeds 3 pictures ago). this 120 pound rothweiller, layin down less than 12 feet from the sidewalk, without a leash
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Now you just wait until those poppies and such plants grow ta near 3 feet - then it'll look more like a retreat. Haven't even taken out the table & chairs yet. Cora - the dog, usta love lyin down on the cool/humid grass just beyond that bed & the second one (the one that looks like tall weeds 3 pictures ago). this 120 pound rothweiller, layin down less than 12 feet from the sidewalk, without a leash
I bet that got a reaction from the commuters!
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I bet that got a reaction from the commuters!
Mostly - NO - neighbourhood knew a Cora's gentle ways. (and it kept other pet owners from allowin their dogs from pooin on my lawn!!)
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you should get another dog! especially since you are fixing to retire and gonna have all that time!
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Tulips are comin up fast & furious - the early varieties (the yellow & the reds) but they're not the only ones ...
This is my largest cluster a yellows (got 3 or 4 clusters) - near the house, south side, front a the house
You'll be seein singles here & there on other photos.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-04-01.jpg)
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Another yellow with a couple a pinks(?) in the main flowerbed
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Main flowerbed's reds (there'll be at least 3 other later bloomin tulips in this flowerbed) - Swear they were open earlier this afternoon.
Also happens ta be the biggest flash in the yard right now.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-04-04.jpg)
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Looks like the blueberry cream tulips have pretty well given up. Here's what I'm gettin this year - followed with what usta be, the first year we got em (think we got half a dozen or so that first year.) The unopened tulips are later bloomin blackies - had near a hunderd a em last year - in two seperate (thanks ta my transplantins kills) areas a the front yard.
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oh my GOD they are GORGEOUS!! love the pink and the two colored ones...and the yellow...
all of them are stunning, Roland!
Thank you for sharing...
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Hi Roland,
I can't believe how quickly your garden has been transformed. It seems like only yesterday it had just reappeared out from under all the snow. Those tulips are beautiful!!!
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Hi Roland,
I can't believe how quickly your garden has been transformed. It seems like only yesterday it had just reappeared out from under all the snow. Those tulips are beautiful!!!
Why Thang kew, miss Joce
I've been takin weekly snapshots of the garden (as per Jess's request) and I guess yer right, they do seem to progress rather quickly... and there's a lot more to come - The irises are still a couple a weeks away (and there are dif'rent varieties, as well as dif'rent colours), and the peonies, and the columbines, and the bleeding hearts and the poppies, and various other little surprises - Gosh I did even mention the main show - the lillies (my personal favourite) and the daylillies!
The show's just startin!
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My first of 4 (fer now) global views of the front yard, as of early May.
This one's from the front door's stoop of the house.
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its amazing how quickly things have changed....I suppose they get adapted to growing fast since your growing period is so short??
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The view from my retreat, well almost, during the mornin hours a the summer
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love the sunlight in that picture, Roland. Makes me feel I am there!
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This is the 4th of 4 pics taken Sunday. Sun was going down and I couldn't get that angle without my shadow in the picture (sorry).
There have already been two other varieties of tulips openin up since then, and those pretty yellow one from last week are already looking pretty raggedy. The mid 20's temperatures (apr. 75*F) are going to shorten the duration of the show.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-08-04.jpg)
This is the first time ya get to see the new hole-in-the-ground where I've now planted Jess, Thelma & Louise (bottom right hand corner.)
This is the best view so far of the steepness of the slope, which allows for such a great view from my place (specially when we get thunderstorms!)
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With the hot weather upon us, Toronto's indeed bloomin - so I'm midweekin my updates of the yard's progress (took 5 more pics this evenin)
This patch a tullips have been growing in the back yard, in the middle of nowhere since, I-don't-know-when, and just keep multiplyin. Bryan won't let me move em (but I think it's the last year fer em back there!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-09-01.jpg)
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those are gorgeous....the pink ones...are they red in the middle? cause on my screen they look like they might have a bit there... :laugh: :laugh:
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BTW....I am looking good out there in your yard!!
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those are gorgeous....the pink ones...are they red in the middle? cause on my screen they look like they might have a bit there... :laugh: :laugh:
The camera lightens up the colour some. To the naked eye, they're more purple. Inside they're white.
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BTW....I am looking good out there in your yard!!
Can't say I understand what that means :-\
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The camera lightens up the colour some. To the naked eye, they're more purple. Inside they're white.
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BTW....I am looking good out there in your yard!!
Can't say I understand what that means :-\
You posted a pic of JESS and Thelma and Louise!
I was makin a joke!
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You posted a pic of JESS and Thelma and Louise!
I was makin a joke!
Well you got that wrong - The three plants were indeed in the ground, but not when I took that picture. Those three plants are more mature than the 3 new plants (and when ya see em next to those, they look sickly - will need some time to aclimatize to the new surroundings.)
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This is the 4th of 4 pics taken Sunday. Sun was going down and I couldn't get that angle without my shadow in the picture (sorry).
There have already been two other varieties of tulips openin up since then, and those pretty yellow one from last week are already looking pretty raggedy. The mid 20's temperatures (apr. 75*F) are going to shorten the duration of the show.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-08-04.jpg)
This is the first time ya get to see the new hole-in-the-ground where I've now planted Jess, Thelma & Louise (bottom right hand corner.)
This is the best view so far of the steepness of the slope, which allows for such a great view from my place (specially when we get thunderstorms!)
gee how could I have made THAT mistake... ::) ::)
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Back to the front yard, and a bi-colour (if white is a colour) red/white tulip - in the main flowerbed again. They're rather small, really, and in the background, one of 3 patches of phlox ... more ta come on that
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a wider view of the main flower bed.
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Tried ta take both the phlox & the one surviving (the others have all gone red) bi-colour orage/red tulip
and got neither quite as clearly as I'd hoped!
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This is one of 5 diff'rent areas where these grape hyacinth are growing - best cluster though - & it's in the jungle bed, next to the stoop.Those fat stems behind and above the flowers are chives. Both the chives & the grape hyacinths have been in that same bed fer about a decade.
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When the gardner (usta have an italian ol man who wanted ta grow veggies in my back yard - long story) replaced my cherry tree with an apple tree, he placed an old tire in the ground around the trunk a that tree. A couple a years ago, I moved some violas into that mostly dry bit of dirt. Violas, being a hearty plant have now taken over that underused little space in a rather pleasant lookin way.
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Tried ta take both the flox& the one surviving (the others have all gone red) bi-colour orage/red tulip
and got neither quite as clearly as I'd hoped!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-09-04.jpg)
you mean they turn red as they age or that the others come out as red now?
(that flox looks so fragile!)
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It just amazes me how quickly things have bloomed there! It seems like last week it was snowing! LOL!
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you mean they turn red as they age or that the others come out as red now?
(that flox looks so fragile!)
I mean that they are not naturally dual toned and they revert to their natural (dominant?) colour after a few years. That's what happened to the white tulip I posted earlier - paid big bucks fer "blueberry-cream", and a few years later, they turn all white (these orange/red were pretty cheap though) I had 'bout 10 of em last year - the orange/red ones ... this year, just one ... and lotsa reds.
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I mean that they are not naturally dual toned and they revert to their natural (dominant?) colour after a few years. That's what happened to the white tulip I posted earlier - paid big bucks fer "blueberry-cream", and a few years later, they turn all white (these orange/red were pretty cheap though) I had 'bout 10 of em last year - the orange/red ones ... this year, just one ... and lotsa reds.
huh! learned something new this morning...
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Most of the other tulips are already passed their prime, but there are still a few pink ones openin up here & there. The main flowerbed's near-black tulips are really disappointing this year, and it seems there are lots a tulip plants in that bed that have not produced flowers this year :-\
Still, the new flowerbed (north side) are showing off their near-black tulips nicely - though I think the size of these flowerheads still has some growin left in em.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-12-02.jpg)
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When I posted a pic a this earlier, they were just startin out. Like I said I got these phlox growin in 3 parts of the front yard - two dif'rent colours (pink & sorta blue) but the camera doesn't seem ta differ. Here's another look at that first patch - from a dif'rent angle
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Here's a dif'rent patch of phlox on the north side of the yard (near my driveway). Bryan confirms that he sees a dif'rent colour, even in the photos, so here they are.
P.S., he thinks I'm doin a pretty decent job with these pics too! :D
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-12-04.jpg)
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OOO!! I LIKE the pink flox best!!!
(Hi Bryan!! :-* :-* )
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In my jungle (much shade, north side a the front stoop) got me a couple a pink bleedin hearts - May be a little too early ta take a pic a this one, and couda maybe taken a closer pic (like I did on the {yet to come} white bleeding heart) but I'm learnin!
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very nice! (I like the leaves in that picture)
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Better picture a the white bleeding hearts (then yesterday's pink one) - cause it's a close up. Plant's hardly at it's most explosive yet! Yet another one a the 'jungle bed' plant next to the stoop.
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Took a half dozen pics tryin ta get the camera ta focus on the foreground flowers ...
You may nor believe this, but this plant is called 'lung wart'. Isn't that the name a one a the plants used in "The Nightmare Before Christmas"?
Another plant growing in the non flower-bed behind the house.
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Ok LOOK...How big IS this yard!?? You got TONS of stuff in it!
each prettier or more interesting than the last!
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You've seen pics a my front yard:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-08-04.jpg)
Here's one I took a the back yard that same day, from off my property - it's quite a narrow yard, really.
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well you sure have done a great job with it...you and Bryan!
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Sherriff Roland tell me something. What up with this Victoria day you all having next Monday. Was it the ole' gals birthday? Do you all ever have Victor day?
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Who the Hell knows - It's like that mid summer holiday - don't celebrate Simcoe day in August either - to me it's just a civic holiday - I'm french!
In our traditions (and apparently, not a lot a my french coworkers/teachers know this) we celebrate Dollars des Ormeaux in french ontario.
Here's a quote from a history blurb of French Canadian history:
"Le 21 mai 1660 passe dans l'histoire comme le jour où Dollard des Ormeaux sauva la Nouvelle-France."
Against the attack by hundreds of Iroquois, Dollard and his handful of volunteers fought to the death.
"The Iroquois returned to their villages disturbed by the fact that they had lost more than eighty warriors against such a small number of defenders. The fear of suffering significant loss in an attack by the men of New-France discourages the Iroquois from attacking again." (loose translation)
However, I guess I haven't answered your question - There has never been a Victor quite as important in our (english) history, as Queen Victoria, and so she remains the subject of most Canadian's reason for a holiday next Monday.
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Sorry Shakes - The last post (my response) was needlessly cold - part a the anti anglo in me - a knee jerk reaction
This next pic is just an update of the lillies flowerbed - newly created last summer. Even Bryan is impressed by the production happenin in this part od the garden - Be a couple a weeks before this becomes a WOW! bed.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-12-08.jpg)
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No worries, I had not thought about the difference and all. I also never knew there was a French part of Ontario, thank you for the new wrinkle on my brain.
Love your garden, how is the pollen?
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No worries, I had not thought about the difference and all. I also never knew there was a French part of Ontario, thank you for the new wrinkle on my brain.
Love your garden, how is the pollen?
Thank you, glad you like it! But you'll notice they're mostly just close ups so far.
Since there's nothing much yet (except tulips, really) I haven't heard anyone complain about pollen problems (although, Bryan's having spring time allergies of some sort - for the first time). I suffer from fall allergies - thought to be 'goldenrod' related!
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I gave up on Tulips, the deer would not even let them bloom.
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Been rainin and cold of late - Didn't think I'd find anything worth sharing taday (cause I ran out yesterday ...) but here goes
Got a few irises shown up (that's tomorrow's picture) but fer now, a dwarf iris, almost lost in amonst the grass. I really love this little flower, with it's green-as-the-leaves petals. Problem is, while removing the grass around it, seems I broke one a the upper petals :-\
still worth sharin ...
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cool! see I knew there was something we hadn't seen already!
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First hint of what the Irises are gonna produce this year - mid hight, few blossoms per stem, but of a vivid colour
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took another picture of the bleeding hearts (pink) Think it's looking fuller!
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OK - went out & took 18 pics, reduced their size and photobucketed em.
Got 5 pics a this button (call em double buttercups) - small flowers (size a my pinky's fingernail) but they've mutiplied like crazy and can blanket the whole ground in that non flowerbed near the house in the back. Here's a picture a just one flower!
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Here's a larger group a em. Pretty, aren't they?!
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Got three more a those double buttercup pics, but here's a first (of 3) pics a the lilac. Ya can't see em from the ground - had ta use a ladder ta get these pics!
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Here's a larger group a em. Pretty, aren't they?!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-01.jpg)
these are pretty...remind me of antique roses
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Backing up ta show more double buttercup
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See - My house on the right, the neighbour's on the left, and me way up on the ladder! Lilacs found only at the top of this 9 feet tree (very odorous cuttings right here, next to the computer :) )
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LOL!
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Here's a picture of another bunch a Isis, same type as the first, but a little higher, closer to the house.
Was just out a moment ago, and found that the next height of Iris might be openin up in a day or two (cause it's gonna be real hot fer the next couple a days and) cause they're startin ta show a little colour through the head - first bunch a these higher Irises will likely be the same colour - a type a dark blue.
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Another pic a the double buttercups
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Here's a pretty view of the almost black tulips in a newer bed. This warmer than usual (shorter than usual?) winter may be the cause of a reduced production from all bulb plants this year - nonetheless, this looks like a good show:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-10.jpg)
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In the jungle by the house (north side of the stoop) there are a few lillies of the valley growing ...
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Bryan's been transplanting the tomatoes (grown from seed!) in that really hot (32*C) temperature this eveniing:
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Course, he can't take pics without muggin for the camara ...
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Hi Bryan!!!
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Another mug pic!
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Then he goes & plant begonias in that jungle I was talkin 'bout earlier!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/Bryan/07-05-24-07.jpg)
More pics ta come on THAT!
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am I the only one that notices that Bryan is doing all the work while Roland runs around playing with the camera and the computer??
??? ;D
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Then there's the OTHER little adventure
Bryan came across this baby bird in an empty garbage can. By the time I got outside it was in the garage. By the time I decided to get the camera, the bird was (not flying - jumping) in a corner of the garden, under a heavy folliage a daylillies:
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A little while later, it's on the ledge of a basement window:
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A little while after I took this pic, we noticed it's mama (a robin) feedin it
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aww! how CUTE!
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And the saga continues
another similar aged baby bird (sibbling) was then spotted a fw yards further west (from the tomato plants). Could get real close ta this one too ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/odds%20and%20ends/07-05-24-11.jpg)
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Figure with that chest - it's gotta be another baby robin (been noticin more robins in the back yard this year)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/odds%20and%20ends/07-05-24-12.jpg)
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OK, back to the flower beds. This is what the back yard's buttercup cover looked like 5 days ago.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-05.jpg)
Still not much, in spite of the number a flowers
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Another global image of, in this case, the newest flowerbed, taken 5 days ago - showin the progress a the lillies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-14.jpg)
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angain, the few lillies of the valley that are in the jungle by the stoop - photo taken 65 days ago (just discovered some more a em in the main flowerbed!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-16.jpg)
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Sheriff, I love all your flowers!
The bleeding hearts are beautiful.
All my Iris' are now gone as well as the hyicynth and the lillies of the valley.
My Day lillies,roses,daisies and magnolia's are blooming now.
It's getting so hot that they won't last long. We're in the middle of a drought and have major watering restrictions! I live less than a mile from the largest man-made lake in the Country (maybe just east of the Mississip, not sure) and can't water! :(
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Thanks Lee
re: reply #160
I'm proud of all the ground cover & how well it's spreadin. There were just growin wild in the back yard (& in the jungle) and look how well they've spread - on the left side a the picture, and along the driveway (both in that new flowerbed, & in the cracks along the driveway) - might even reduce the ugly grass growth!
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The frequently mentioned 'jungle' is going through a major bloomin phase right now. Here a photo 6 days old ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-20-18.jpg)
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Looks beautiful Sheriff!
Boy, the smoke from the forest fires is awful here today!
I sure am glad I did all my yardwork yesterday!
I'd be chokin and gagging if not! LOL
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Well Lee, don't be chockin 'n a gaggin ...
instead you could be gaukin and a appreciatin these photos - took a whole bunch more taday ... here's the first of a set a colombine (these are doin VERY well, mutiplyin from seeds and from maturity) - another view a the jungle
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-01.jpg)
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Those are gorgeous!
I don't think I've ever seen those type of flowers before!
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As expected, a lighter blue iris has showed up. Thinkin this might not be the greatest showing - cause a the odd winter we had ... I was certainly diappointed with the tulips
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-05.jpg)
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As expected, a lighter blue iris has showed up. Thinkin this might not be the greatest showing - cause a the odd winter we had ... I was certainly diappointed with the tulips
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-05.jpg)
You have quite the green thumb there Sheriff!
Very Pretty. I love Iris'. I have white, lavender and burgundy ones. Then, this year in the middle of my burgundy ones a yellow appeared? WTF, I don't know where it came from. It was really pretty though in the middle of all that deep burgundy it really stuck out!
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I just can't BELIEVE how fast stuff grows up there! It is like magic!
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You have quite the green thumb there Sheriff!
Very Pretty. I love Iris'. I have white, lavender and burgundy ones. Then, this year in the middle of my burgundy ones a yellow appeared? WTF, I don't know where it came from. It was really pretty though in the middle of all that deep burgundy it really stuck out!
Got news fer you Lee - all the really pretty ones (late bloomers) - multy coloured real tall iris, are 'temporarily' in the back yard - You ain't seen nothin yet - Got at least half a dozen other varieties left ta show!
Oh & I moved the mini dwarf iris today ... there were a dozen roots - should be a really fine show next year (only got two flowers a those this year!)
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Here's another cluster of those colombines, again from the jungle near the stoop
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-03.jpg)
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Took this yesterday as well. Bleedin hearts look fuller this weekend! (yet another picture from the jungle)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-04.jpg)
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These are 'sea thrift' - small plants (6 inches) and thumb nail size flowers - in the newer flowerbed
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-12.jpg)
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'nother view a those light blue iris
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-06.jpg)
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'nother closer pic a them there sea thrift flowers:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-13.jpg)
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if this is just the beginning, summer must be spectacular! Can't wait. Everything is more beautiful than the last.
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Let's just say that Bryan's planned it well so's there's always sumthin new bloomin out there, until mid July. But ours is really the only garden with this much variety within a mile.
Mimma's constantly wanting fer me ta share this plant or that one ... specially this year!
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that is what is so surprising...the variety! Seems there is something new every day!
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From the jungle again, a dif'rent variety(?) a comombine (all white)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-02.jpg)
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My first lupin of the season, from a pland moved from the back yard in the newest bed. Looks to have only one head this year, but the other plant (pink I think) is already promissing quite a show - at least six heads!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-26-08.jpg)
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same day lupin pic, followed by a similar view, 3 days later:
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-29-02.jpg)
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good lort...you got stuff I haven't ever heard of!
:)
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buttons buttons everywhere!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-29-05.jpg)
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panoramic view ;D
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-29-06.jpg)
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First a the yellow isis (taken 2 days ago)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-29-04.jpg)
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last a the pics taken two (three?) days ago - The jungle is Sooo busy. Been real warm last two days - Toronto's bloomin big time
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-29-01.jpg)
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Today's first new photo is that of the second plant of lupin (in the main flowerbed) got at least 6 heads in this one (the other one's got at least 3 now)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-31-01.jpg)
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The Iris are really making a show now! took these pics soon after a rain, so petals are a little droopy (sorry!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-31-02.jpg)
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Hey Sheriff!
I think I have figured out this picture thing.
Mine aren't as pretty as yours but here are a few from whats left of my garden.
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Here's one of my sweet girl holding some Iris' she picked to take to Church
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I wish I could do roses Lee, but they don't like my place. Never had a rosebush survive. And I don't think gardenias grow in these parts.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-31-03.jpg)
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These dark (red?) iris actually smell like Dr. Pepper!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-31-04.jpg)
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Yet another variery a Iris
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Iris must be one of the most adapable plants. They're regarded as virtually dought proof here and thrive in the hot arid inland. Yet they seem just as at home in the Canadian snow.
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Siberian Iris (narrower petals) rain is still on the leaves and stems
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-05-31-07.jpg)
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Back to the front yard again, for a sorta global view of the iris situation as of yesterday
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-01.jpg)
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Sarah Burnhart Peonies - can you smell em?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-13.jpg)
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Two days ago's view from the street of most of the front yard's iris
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-02.jpg)
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Here's one of my sweet girl holding some Iris' she picked to take to Church
she is gorgeous, Lee..just a sweetheart
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Sarah Burnhart Peonies - can you smell em?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-13.jpg)
almost!! they are (again) beautiful I want to come sit in your yard on a cool Canadian morning and sip a Coke while we watch the passerbys!
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Did you get your puppy? I want to see pictures of the two of you,, and watch you play with her. I know you are going to have a love of your life with her...Puppies are the best... share share
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Did you get your puppy? I want to see pictures of the two of you,, and watch you play with her. I know you are going to have a love of your life with her...Puppies are the best... share share
Most puppy news are found on the Tack & Feed thread or on the Bar & Grill Thread.
Latest news is that Pitou will not arrive until this coming Friday (the 8th). Jess has been posting pictures of Pitou almost every day in the Bar & Grill.
You can be sure that there will be lotsa puppy/Sheriff pics this summer.
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Counted 30 blossoms opened on that one bush(with probably as many still to come!) - each flower has a diamater of some 20 cm (8")
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-03-02.jpg)
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Close-up a just one a em Sarah Burnhart blooms
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-03-08.jpg)
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I may have found a new favorite flower! I wonder if they would grow down here??
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she is gorgeous, Lee..just a sweetheart
Thanks Jess! ;D
I sure think so!
Sheriff, Your flowers are just beautiful!
I love Peonies!
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Hey Jess
I googles about when to seperate peonies and look what I came accross:
Q: I live in southeast Texas. I dug up one of my mom's peonies in southwest Missouri. They are at least 80 yrs. old. The peonies in MO are dormant this time of year (of course). Is there anything special I should do? Should I plant them now or should I put them in the refrigerator until spring and plant them then? Will they grow in southeast Texas? When should I see blooms?
A: Yes, you can grow peonies there. You should plant them right away. Find a place where they will get lots of sun, but not totally fried. When you plant them, remove any of the old decayed roots and seperate them into smaller chunks if you still have them in the whole big bunch. They need to be planted with the eye where the stem is going to come out, just barely below the surface of the soil.
Add some bonemeal and compost in the bottom of the hole before your place your peony, then put the dirt in around it. Make sure you have packed the soil tightly so there are no air pockets left. Give it a good soaking, and there you are!
If you plant them too deep, they will not bloom. They may not bloom this first year, as they have been shocked, but will bloom after that.
Now here's my two cents ... buy them from a local plant distributor - the good ones usually have people who know and can give advice. I'm pretty certain the very scented ones you've seen here are indeed called Sarah Burnhart, but I'm not sure of the spelling.
Dependin on the maturity of the plant, expect ta pay anywhere from 10$ to 25$ for one pot. They only bloom for a few days per year (possibly extending to a couple a weeks), but they do come back larger than ever every year. (and they don't much like rain on the flowers) You gotta water them regularly!
Bill musta had 2 or 3 dozen varieties out on his farm... I've only got 7 plants.
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Took this one when the light was low outside - turned out much redder than it should have - but it's a right pretty colour nonetheless - part of the many iris I moved to the back yard while I was improving a front yard flowerbed last year - Don't know where or when I'm gonna put these 5 or 6 dozen plants! :-\
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-09.jpg)
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3 pics taken at 12 hour intervals :o
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-12.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-02-03.jpg)
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(and then I cut the lawn ... and the rains came, warshed away that large bloom in the front)
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Close-up of that special yellow peonie (2 days ago)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-03-07.jpg)
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Close up of the siberian iris I posted a few days ago - pretty, ain't it?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-10.jpg)
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The lupins have never grown so much so fast. Usually when the top part's in blossom, the bottom's gone to seed - not this time - not in the heat we'd been experiencin (until today)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-03-09.jpg)
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Five day old picture of the buttercups - was actually tryin to get the variety of unusual leaves in this little area in the back yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-01-11.jpg)
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My first ornamental poppy opened five days ago (got 4 of em open now.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-02-01.jpg)
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Second siberian iris - so pure & white, with a beautiful yellow accent - first of many, recently moved to the newest flowerbed
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-04-01.jpg)
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Beautiful flowers Roland. wow, they are so so lovely, did you know those poppys are heroin producers? I have some seeds too a friend gave me.
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Beautiful flowers Roland. wow, they are so so lovely, did you know those poppys are heroin producers? I have some seeds too a friend gave me.
Why thank you Janice. As far as those poppies are concerned, don't know what variety of poppies produce heroine, but I'm quite aware that heroine is made from some kinda poppy. These are referred to as ornamental poppies. Got two colours of em - the second one just opened up this afternoon. Also, a third colour that we bought at a respectable plant place did not survive the first winter.
Got yet another variety of poppies that self seed and grow back ev'ry year (they're much smaller, and haven't blossomed yet this year)
(http://www.greatwar.nl/poppies/mccrae.jpg)
In Flanders Fields by the Canadian army physician John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
for more information about this poem ... http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-poppies.html
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A 3rd (of 7 plants) peonie opened recently - similar to the first pink, but darker - camara doesn't pick up the shade the eye can see
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-04-02.jpg)
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Two years ago I temporarily moves a bunch a lillies while I was reworking a bed. Last year I returned most a em back to the front yard, and, again, temporarily moved a bunch (50 - 60) plants a Iris in the back yard - way too close together. Two varieties have started blossoming.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-04-04.jpg)
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Here's a dif'rent angle a that same iris jungle (photo taken 4 days ago)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-04-05.jpg)
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This mornin I'm invitin you ta take a walk up my street ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-01.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-02.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-06.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-07.jpg)
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Now wasn't that worth it? (photos taken 2 days ago)
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Your garden is absolutely beautiful Roland! I can't get over how different it looks from even a couple of months ago.
And that poem was beautiful. I remember it from English lessons at school.
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Thank you Jocelyn - how kind of you to visit & leave a comment.
Thid afternoon's pic is 2 days old, 4 days later than the previous 3rd peonie to show blossoms.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-11.jpg)
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I bet your neighbors just hate you! LOL
Not in a bad way mind you! They're just jealous of your beautiful yard.
As it is, My neoghbor is a landscaper. His house is beautiful.
His specialty is roses. I'll have to get you some pictures of his.
They are incredible. I tell him all the time to quit naking me look bad.
He just laughs at me! :-\
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I bet your neighbors just hate you! LOL
Not in a bad way mind you! They're just jealous of your beautiful yard.
As it is, My neoghbor is a landscaper. His house is beautiful.
His specialty is roses. I'll have to get you some pictures of his.
They are incredible. I tell him all the time to quit naking me look bad.
He just laughs at me! :-\
Truth is, on one side, the landloards only cut the turf-full-a-weeds once a month - good thing I got a barrier - very few weeds and I don't use pesticides - never have.
On the other side, I've got copycats. If I mow the lawn, they cut theirs, if I make flowerbeds in the middle of the lawn - 10 years later they copy me, if I use cement block borders, the next year, they got em too. They're really grass people, very meticulous, but they've used pesticides for years & now it's banned in Toronto. They have nothing on our variety though ...
Ok, tonight's posting ... photo taken a couple a days ago of the very impressive lupins. Cause a the heat, all the blooms are out at once instead a having the bottom turn ta seed before the top shows blossom. Plus I don't think I've ever had that many shoots from one plant!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-06-12.jpg)
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More poppies, the pale orange variety, has opened up
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-07-02.jpg)
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Roland, I really enjoyed taking a stroll up your street! You really do live at the top of the hill, don't you?
(took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at....now I have gone back three times...it is just fun!)
Thank you...that was a very creative thing to do!
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Roland, I really enjoyed taking a stroll up your street! You really do live at the top of the hill, don't you?
(took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at....now I have gone back three times...it is just fun!)
Thank you...that was a very creative thing to do!
Thank you
Yup in all directions ya go down, makes it pretty much the top a the hill
Bryan's ofter mentioned (over the years) how he liked how our garden always seemed to spring outta nowhere while walking from the corner tawards home.
More newness ta share this mornin - a 4th peonie - the other special one - the one Bill gave me that last summer before he died. Plant stayed in the pot outside (& survived the winter) before I put it in the ground last summer. A gift from gay Bill, from Paris Ontario
Plant's actually called 'gay paris'
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-07-03.jpg)
photo taken 2 days ago
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Next day ... (yesterday) same 'gay paris' peonie
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-08-01.jpg)
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Tries to take a close up picture of this flower, but the camera focussed on the leaf. Best I could do...
Also notice the 'ground cover' on the right? tiny little yellow flowers makes for a nice showin ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-07-01.jpg)
Edit note: took some real purdy pictures a both of these this mornin - be postin em in the next few days - The Sheriff
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Posted a single very white siberian iris earlier. A few more blooms have since shown up ... (sorry - seems the camera's focussed on the ground instead a the flowers)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-08-03.jpg)
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:) :) ;)
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time ta post an update ...
Did you get your puppy? I want to see pictures of the two of you,, and watch you play with her. I know you are going to have a love of your life with her...Puppies are the best... share share
Sorry Janice, it ain't gonna happen.
The airlines won't freight ship unaccompanied animals when it's this hot in Texas (well that's what one airline claimed) or their flights arrive too late here in Toronto; their receiving section closes a half hour after before the flight's arrival. A lot a effort (& money) was spent trying to make this happen, but it wasn't to be. I won't be raising a puppy at any other time of the year, so since I'm heading for retirement next March ('08), that would be the next window of opportunity for me to adopt a puppy.
I can live with the situation - I'm not devastated or anything ... it's just not something that was meant to happen at this time, is all.
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Oh dear me..so sad Roland...I was so hoping for you to have that happen...so sad........... :-\ :-\ :'(
sorry {{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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Thanks fer the good thoughts there Janice, but like I said, ain't no big deal.
Been out diggin - widenin the second row a flowerbed - ta install cement borders - didn't get as much done as I wanted - but with only 3 weeks left before summer break, it'll get done eventually ...
Awright, fer tonight's photo, yet another (5th?) peonie. and again, the colour ta the naked eye is much darker that what the camera shows
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-08-02.jpg)
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Today I'll be postin "virginia bluebells" - tiny flowers that border my driveway (see reply #231 - split a plant last year & it took) and some from the back yard
This first one is a little special, as I was able ta catch a bee workin the nectar ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-02.jpg)
and a close up (Bryan thinks it's my best virginia bluebell picture - I think they're all pretty much the same)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-03.jpg)
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Couple more pics a the virginia bluebell, fisr from the front yard, second from the back yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-04.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-05.jpg)
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Awright ... new feature of "My Great White North" - if ya wanna ...
Name that Plant
Here's the first picture ... this one's growin wild in my garden
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-13.jpg)
I'll be posting another view of it in the mornin.
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Name that Plant part one :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-14.jpg)
got until tomorrow ta try with yer answer
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Thistle?
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Thistle?
no, sorry - try again
Hint #1: it's a herb
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Today I'll be postin "virginia bluebells" - tiny flowers that border my driveway (see reply #231 - split a plant last year & it took) and some from the back yard
This first one is a little special, as I was able ta catch a bee workin the nectar ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-02.jpg)
and a close up (Bryan thinks it's my best virginia bluebell picture - I think they're all pretty much the same)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-03.jpg)
That first blue flower doesnt even look real...the one with the bee in there taking a nap....It is simply exquisit...
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Where are your guesses as to what is the name of that plant I posted yesterday & again this mornin? (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-14.jpg)
I've posted a profile closeup of the red poppy - here's an inside look at a peach coloured one ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-08.jpg)
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Where are your guesses as to what is the name of that plant I posted yesterday & again this mornin? (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-14.jpg)
I've posted a profile closeup of the red poppy - here's an inside look at a peach coloured one ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-08.jpg)
Dill???
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finally a second guess...
No. Dill's a tall plant. This one's barely 6 inches high (can grow ta near a foot high)
OK HINT #2: ya can make tea with it ... (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-13.jpg)
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Thyme??
oh wait...never heard of Thyme tea....
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You mean you guys don't have this little plant growin in yer yard? We had em growin everywhere back in Timmins. They grow in very dry hard dirt - or just about anywhere. If'n ya do - go pick one and rub/squish it - you'll recognise the odor.
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PEPPERMINT????
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PEPPERMINT????
Hum ... I guess peppermint tea does exist, but I got peppermint growin in my yard (nasty weed) and it looks right dif'rent - grows ta 2 feel easily, so no, this ain't peppermint, sorry.
Here's another one a those plants, also growin in the back yard:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-15.jpg)
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I saw some plants just like it today on my walk.
Dan D Lions
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Hum ... I guess peppermint tea does exist, but I got peppermint growin in my yard (nasty weed) and it looks right dif'rent - grows ta 2 feel easily, so no, this ain't peppermint, sorry.
dang it....
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I saw some plants just like it today on my walk.
Dan D Lions
Janice Nooooooo ... dandelions can be eaten in salads, and apparently make decent home wine, but it looks VERY dif'rent. Don't think it makes tea & I don't think anyone thinks of it as a herb. You'll recognise the herb when I reveal it's name!
Here's a picture I took of the net of flower, leaves and root of a dandelion: (http://www.kalyx.com/store/images/TaraxacumOfficinale20.jpg)
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they make dandelion wine why not tea.??
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I'm learnin somethin here ... I googles an image of the name a this plant, and I'm getting a dif'rent flower. Leaves(?) look very similar, but the flowers are more like a daisy, while my plant(s) only have the yellow center. One thing fer certain, Bryan has made tea with this & it did taste like .... (tomorrow's answer)
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they make dandelion wine why not tea.??
Dunno, just never heard a dandelion tea, is all.
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Ok ill play your game one more time...sassafras??
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Ok ill play your game one more time...sassafras??
I don't know sassafras ... again, I googled an image - seems to have broad leaves - and I think it's a tree, so no, not sassafras
Was gonna give a third hint, but I'm comin up with a blank - tea's without caffeine, but I guess that's true of all herbal teas
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You guys are being such good sports - hope I don't frustrate you to the point a not wantin ta participate again ...
In the meantime, the peach coloured poppies came out in great numbers this year (It pays ta move em) In the back yard, I must a gotten near a dozen, and in the front yard, there were nine a em bloomin all at once!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-09.jpg)
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Anise, hemlock...aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh ded
chamomile,
Cranberry Blood Orange Tea, Fair Trade Certified - 50 Tea Bags
BLOWOUT ITEMS
Tart-Sweet, fruitful blend of cranberries, black tea, and orange peels. Bountiful in flavornoids which help to maintain a healthy heart.
Dandelion Tea, NOW Foods Organic - 30 Tea Bags
Dandelion Tea has a long history of use. Dandelion tea is warm and soothing and may even bring back a little bit of the child in you!
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Anise, hemlock...aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh ded
I think Anice looks like celery, and helock, ain't that a tree
ded - is that a sign that you give up? you dead? or sumthin?
this part, "aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh" I undertood :)
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you can make tea out of almost anything organic. that isnt poison...as the chinese can testify/
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Anise, hemlock...aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh ded
chamomile,
Cranberry Blood Orange Tea, Fair Trade Certified - 50 Tea Bags
BLOWOUT ITEMS
Tart-Sweet, fruitful blend of cranberries, black tea, and orange peels. Bountiful in flavornoids which help to maintain a healthy heart.
Dandelion Tea, NOW Foods Organic - 30 Tea Bags
Dandelion Tea has a long history of use. Dandelion tea is warm and soothing and may even bring back a little bit of the child in you!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
One a these is the right answer - now which one?
Guess once I cross out that stuff, aint much left so
Yup it's chamomile - Well that's what Bryan claims - and the leaves do look like images of chamomile that I googled
Guess persistence pays, hunh Janice? It's almost time ta post the next 'What's this Plant' image ;D I expect it'll be easier ...
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Ok, here's a second puzzle in the
Name that Plant challenge, part two :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-16.jpg)
Question is about that curvin stem. Another picture will be posted tomorrow (unless y'all get it right away)
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Second picture in this second puzzle of
Name that Plant :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-17.jpg)
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Nodding onion?
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Nodding onion?
Nope, sorry. These are however indeed herbs (I think). Stronger than onions
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Nope, sorry. These are however indeed herbs (I think). Stronger than onions
Garlic???
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Ding-a-Ding Ding
Yes indeed! - Ain't you got garlic growin wild in your area? They aren't as large a bulb as the ones ya buy at the store, but they're stronger (& I got a ton a em). Ya can use the leaf while it's growin, the head (in the curb a the stem), and of course, once the plant dries up, the bulb is ready too.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-18.jpg)
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Hi Roland,
Garlic definitely doesn't grow wild down here. It's grown commercially so the climate must be OK for it.
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HUH? Hey you buncha cheaters...I didn't even get to guess!
Sneaking in in the middle of the night!
I gotta sleep SOMETIME!!
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HUH? Hey you buncha cheaters...I didn't even get to guess!
Sneaking in in the middle of the night!
I gotta sleep SOMETIME!!
Hey
You snooze, ya lose! :laugh:
Apparently the previous plant quiz was so hard, I had to resort ta somethin easier the second time around (with stronger hints) and besides, the correct answer came near 9 hours after the initial posting a the image.
Anyhoot, will be posting a new one later this evening (I think).
Good mornin Jess - bell's about to ring, won't be saying another howde-do until this evenin
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Bye!
Have a SUPER DEE DUPER day!!
;D ;D
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The last two peonies are virtually the same - mostly off white
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-10.jpg)
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Anyhoot, will be posting a new one later this evening (I think).
Okay, I'll be waiting!
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OK, time for theName that Plant puzzle du jour. :)
The whole picture (pretty much) is the same type a plant
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-19.jpg)
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Basil!!
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Basil!!
No, not basil, this one's more bushy than basil.
Do try again (BTW, I think this is gonna be a real tough one!)
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Name that Plant 2nd pic of the puzzle du jour. :)
Local plant store had a really small version a this plant listed as a ornamental herb, - really don't know any other purpose fer it that it's great look.
Wikipedia's got it listed as a perennial herbaceous plant
Here's a close-up of the flowers and leaves (photo taken on the same day)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-21.jpg)
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Rue!
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Thats a tough one!
Does it grow in the south?
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Rue!
Right
How'dya do that so easily?
Actually called meadow-rue. Did you google it or did you recognize it?
Gonna hafta find another plant fer tonight now...
In the meantime, here's the 3rd picture for the meadow-rue (which, since I've got 4 plants of it now, I'm hoping ta move em as a border in the back yard with the Sarah Burnhart peonies)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-20.jpg)
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I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years!
Never heard of it! :(
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Thats a tough one!
Does it grow in the south?
I thought it WAS a tough one ... but I'm told it grows pretty much everywhere in the northern hemisphere.
I think that Friend Lee's just a little too close to nature. Or it's growing out in her back yard too, or sumthin
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Never saw that before..Didnt think there were many plants i hadnt seen...If its herb. What does it
smell,,,,taste like.??
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Yup, I just saw it growing all over the place on my workout hike this weekend. It looks a lot like colombine, which is our state flower. Whenever I see rue, it reminds me of something I regret. Usually neglecting a friend. I have tried to grow it in my yard but it's a tough one to get started.
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Never saw that before..Didnt think there were many plants i hadnt seen...If its herb. What does it
smell,,,,taste like.??
Dunno why they call it a herb - no special smell/taste/use ... just ornamental (looks pretty). Ours are growing in relatively shady and dry areas a the back yard - though I do tend ta water em somewhat regularly...
Now fer a close-up a the last type a peonie ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-11.jpg)
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Right
How'dya do that so easily?
Actually called meadow-rue. Did you google it or did you recognize it?
Gonna hafta find another plant fer tonight now...
In the meantime, here's the 3rd picture for the meadow-rue (which, since I've got 4 plants of it now, I'm hoping ta move em as a border in the back yard with the Sarah Burnhart peonies)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-20.jpg)
RUE??
I thought that was what came out of a fish's belly!!!
>:( >:(
ya'll are pulling my leg aren't you!??
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Howdy Sheriff...your flowers are GORGEOUS and the pictures are AWESOME...I am working my way backward through your yard, neighborhood, and pictures. I think I told you I do not have a yard but I LOVE flowers, trees, etc . I guess my favorite wild flowers are Indian Paintbrush, Bluebonnets and BIG Sunflowers . I have made several trip to Glacier National Park MT and fell in love with Bear Grass in the Park. VERY interesting flowers :)
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Well Jess is on early tonight & I've got to give the poor girl a first crack at the next picture guess (should I post a daisy?)
Nice to hear from you doug - help yourself to a guess or two ...
Tonight quiz:
Name that Plant 3rd 4th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-01.jpg)
P.S. there are many, not just one - want you ta name the yellow flowerplant (location: in my jungle)
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Well Jess is on early tonight & I've got to give the poor girl a first crack at the next picture guess (should I post a daisy?)
Nice to hear from you doug - help yourself to a guess or two ...
Tonight quiz:
Name that Plant 3rd 4th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-01.jpg)
P.S. there are many, not just one - want you ta name the yellow flowerplant (location: in my jungle)
I see a fern, Bleeding heart, and the yellow looks like some type of Impatient.
Am I close? Oh are those hostas?
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Not impatients or hostas - am askin about those yellow flowers though
Guess I could always post the next picture now - close-up of the flower, cause the first one's not very clear.
Name that Plant 4th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-03.jpg)
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I'm stumped. It's really pretty though!!
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It's not a herb, not a perenial plant, just a pretty annual flower - and bright!
It reseeds itself ev'ry year, and not necessarily in the same spot. Seems to be more a em each year and I'm not even sure if we actually bought this plant originally ... seed might have been blown in by the wind, or bird droppings.
Helps ta get the name a this plant if yer British, I guess. (that's my hint fer this mornin.)
Name that Plant 4th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-02.jpg)
Now if someone doesn't get the name a this plant soon, I'm gonna hafta go out there & take more pictures of em - they're in at least 3 spots in the front yard (& NO Garry >:( these pics are not off the net - they're from my yard!!!)
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Roland, What is a hostas? You seem to have a lot of plants we don't have here. Which doesn't help when I'm trying to guess what yours are. :-\
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Hostas are shade loving, humididy loving leaffy plants. I've only got 3 varieties all of em really small (3 - 6 inches wide) but the really pretty ones are significantly larger. I often see em 2 or 3 feet across, and they do make flowers too. I'll go take a picture a my neighbour's - be back within 15 minutes ...
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This one's my neighbour's - the larger leaves are over a foot long (got the truck in the picture to help with dimensions)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-01.jpg)
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The neighbour's are yer average size - they can be larger... but mine are miniature in comparison (not sure if they're just young or a dif'rent variery, but here goes ...)
This first one's grown a lot since last year - at least 6 inches for the largest leaf:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-03.jpg)
The next has also grown from last year - maybe 4 or 5 inches (and we're still very early in the season, I think)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-04.jpg)
These last ones are only about 3 inches long (but I've got more'n 2 dozen a em)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-02.jpg)
I think the shape of the leaves, and the lines in the leaves are what defines em.
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I don't recognise them at all R olnd. Maybe they're a plant that needs a much cooler climate in winter than what we have here.
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Is it Freesia? I think thats how you spell it.
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Is it Freesia? I think thats how you spell it.
Don't recognise that name. Means you ain't got the right answer, I guess :-\
Do try again (remember - think british!)
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Freesias!!!!!!!! I know freesias! We have lots of those here but Roland's plant is definitely not a freesia.
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Freesias!!!!!!!! I know freesias! We have lots of those here but Roland's plant is definitely not a freesia.
Yeah, thats what i figured! Too tropical for Canada.
Well, I'm at a loss. :-\
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Are your lovely yellow flowers, Cinquefoil ? ;)
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Are your lovely yellow flowers, Cinquefoil ? ;)
Again Cinquefoil I'm not familiar with. I've been googlin my name of this plant and have not come across the exact image of my flower :-\ Maybe Bryan got this one wrong?
Edit: I googled cinqfoil - looks real pretty, but it appears to be a rock lovin plant -the sheriff
Anyways, I got lots a em in the yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-05.jpg)
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took some lovely pictures this morning - here's a fuller peonie bush - the 'gay paris' one
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-06.jpg)
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Roland your flowers are just breathtaking. It is clear that you love it and put a lot of love into tending your plants. Just beautiful. I love gardening too, I find it very relaxing work and being surround by the colors and the scents. That and there is something very satisfying in helping such beauty come to fruition
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Well Jess is on early tonight & I've got to give the poor girl a first crack at the next picture guess (should I post a daisy?)
Nice to hear from you doug - help yourself to a guess or two ...
Tonight quiz:
Name that Plant 3rd 4th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-01.jpg)
P.S. there are many, not just one - want you ta name the yellow flowerplant (location: in my jungle)
>:( >:( >:(
I just saw this!!
>:( >:( >:(
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English roses
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Hey ev'ryone, let's give Jess a chance ta name this plant all by herself ;D
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-09.jpg)
No it's not a daisy :laugh:
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English roses
somethin's missin in yer answer - but you are Sooo close
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Roland your flowers are just breathtaking. It is clear that you love it and put a lot of love into tending your plants. Just beautiful. I love gardening too, I find it very relaxing work and being surround by the colors and the scents. That and there is something very satisfying in helping such beauty come to fruition
Thanks dottie. And think, next year I'll be able to do things in the springtime, when it's needed, cause retirement arrives on March 31st 2008.
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>:( >:(
*pout!*
it is a white flower!!
:P
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>:( >:(
*pout!*
it is a white flower!!
:P
and it has a name ...
Now back to the yellow flower ... you are Sooo close - Do I have to PRIME you into gettin the right answer?
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It is a English PRIME!
;D ;D
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It is a English PRIME!
;D ;D
C'mon I can't give it to ya with THAT answer - Combine your TWO answers!!!
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English Rose Prime???
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English Rose Prime???
hahahahahaha - no!
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now you are just picking on me!! :(
:laugh:
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all kidding aside...it is an English primrose of course
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all kidding aside...it is an English primrose of course
ok ok
I didn't really guess it..I cheated...Janice guessed it in chat and I stole it!!
:( :(
Bad Jess Bad!!
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Now Jess - tell the truth -
how many people helped you out with finding that answer I see you posted the truth before I asked the question - good jess!
Yup - you're right!! congratulations
Here's the next picture quiz:
Name that Plant 5th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-05.jpg)
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BTW, nobody's tried ta name this plant yet either, any takers?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-09.jpg)
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BTW, nobody's tried ta name this plant yet either, any takers?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-09.jpg)
DAISY!
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No Jess (check out reply #310) it's not a daisy
Bryan keep wantin me to pull em out as weeds every year, but I don't fall for it. I let em blossom now.
They're prob'ly in the daisy family but they're not daisies (per say) - And though I had the name when I started writing this post, I don't remember it right now!
Oh well ...
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No Jess (check out reply #310) it's not a daisy
Bryan keep wantin me to pull em out as weeds every year, but I don't fall for it. I let em blossom now.
They're prob'ly in the daisy family but they're not daisies (per say) - And though I had the name when I started writing this post, I don't remember it right now!
Oh well ...
ok look...if we are gonna play this game...YOU have to know the answer!
::) ::)
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Awright, I'm still blank on the name a that faux - mini daisy, However Bryan'll be over later taday & I'll post it's name then ...
In the meantime, here's a second view of today's
Name that Plant 5th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-06.jpg)
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So glad you advised me of this thread, Sheriff. The flowers you are posting are SO vibrant and interesting and your photography is VERY excellent. Not sure we have any of these here in Houston on the Texas Gulf Coast. I see many AWESOME and usual ( new to me ) wildflowers when I visit Glacier National Park in Montana. :)
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Are you familiar with the wildflower....beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax- Lily Family) ???
I am a Beargrass Addict besides being a Glacier Addict :)
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No I heard ya talkin about once before, but I don't think I ever hear a it before.
Go ahead, post us a picture of it. S'awright
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Sorry...I don't know how to post pictures :laugh:
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Bryan ain't showin up this weekend - but I got him ta help me remember the name a this not-a-daisy plant:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-09.jpg)
It's feverfew
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While I'm here, might as well post another image a the last peonies the off white ones (flowers are coming to an end with both these and the iris)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-07.jpg)
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(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/ifyoucantfixit/BeargrassMtHood.jpg)er
Here you are Beargrass On Mt Hood
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Here you are Beargrass On Mt Hood
Thanks for sharing Janice
If'n nobody guesses on these picture puzzles, I'm gonna hafta discontinue em ... :-\
Last picture a this red flowered plant - I'll be back in the morning with the answer to
Name that Plant 5th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-04.jpg)
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are they a variety of lily??
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and I done told you that white one is a DAISY
D - A - I - S - Y !!!!!
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are they a variety of lily??
No nothing like a lilly
Strage thing ... last night, Janice said something about them looking a little like the crucifix (flowers) she usta see as a child - but of course it's not. What shocked me was that one a the words in the name a this plant is a synonym to crucifix :o
Guess that counts as a hint.
Plant's a perenial (hint #2)
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and I done told you that white one is a DAISY
D - A - I - S - Y !!!!!
T'ain't
Already said what it is - It's feverfew
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I dunno what that is, but here is a pic I took today of the local rue on my workout.
(http://www.divshare.com/img/972441-aac.jpg)
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T'ain't
Already said what it is - It's feverfew
oh now you are making UP names!!
feverfew!! Pfffft
I am gonna google that!!
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I dunno what that is, but here is a pic I took today of the local rue on my workout.
I'd need a closer lok at those leaves, but they look like colombine to me.
The meadow-rue I got is small bush size, bout 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall
They were tryin ta sell some real young rue at the local plant store, but the leaves looked like rue at least (it too was basically just ground height!)
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ok I googled that Feverfew, BUSTER!!
and you were right... :(
:laugh: :laugh:
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ok I googled that Feverfew, BUSTER!!
and you were right... :(
:laugh: :laugh:
Well ain't that sumthin ... and it is even a herb - I googled it too!
Who knew ... One thing fer sure - it ain't a weed - as Bryan would have me believe!
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Well ain't that sumthin ... and it is even a herb - I googled it too!
Who knew ... One thing fer sure - it ain't a weed - as Bryan would have me believe!
and not just a flavor herb...a medicinal herb!
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Name that Plant 5th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-04.jpg)
This is the maltese cross
Can hardly see it cause the flowers are small. They only stay in bloom for a couple a weeks (max) and the red/orange coloring are so subdued ... but they come back, year after year, not taking up much space, just being...
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Thanks Sheriff for your wise thought .... " not taking up much space, just being ..." ;)
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well Maltese Cross was gonna be my NEXT guess.... ;D
no REALLY! It was! >:(
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I'm calling you on that one!
You're such a liar!!
Anyways, no more guessing games - just posting pics now:
Here's a very lovely picture a the ground cover (a type a sedum - got like 5 dif'rent varieties) that's spread out real nicely along the driveway.
Photo was taken 7(!!) days ago.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-22.jpg)
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I'm calling you on that one!
You're such a liar!!
Anyways, no more guessing games - just posting pics now:
Here's a very lovely picture a the ground cover (a type a sedum - got like 5 dif'rent varieties) that's spread out real nicely along the driveway. Photowas taken 7(!!) days ago.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-22.jpg)
*GASP*
You have got some nerve calling me a liar!!
>:( >:(
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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'nother view of the border ta the driveway, a week old still ... (pretty flowers too)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-24.jpg)
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You are sure getting good with that camera, Roland. Getting great close ups.
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Took some more photos this evenin cause it appears the vaious daisies in my yard are about ta bloom. (specially the new (from last fall) yellow daisy-like plant)
This unusual 'painted daisy' (don't know the real name - will check it out tomorrow) I bought a couple a years ago - it's not multiplying much, but it's back for it's 3rd showing - from the main flower bed
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-08.jpg)
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This peonie is much darker in the eye's view (as opposed to the camera's). Last week we found a tag at the bottom of the plant naming it 'Catherine Woodburn' - thanks, Bill
picture taken 3 days ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-08.jpg)
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'nother close up a the near white peonies. Prob'y the last one ya see from my garden this year
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-09.jpg)
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These started bloomin 2 days ago, took this photo (and 2 more) yesterday, and already they're a bit outdated cause there are more blooms ev'ryday.
Int'resting bit ... plant was originally 11$, marked down to 7$ when I bought it. Seperated em into 4 plants in order to use em as boder and it looks like I bought 4 plants there are Sooo many blooms coming ;D You're just seeing half the border in the picture!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-17-02.jpg)
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Here's a closeup a some a those 'Maysville Daisies' I posted earlier this ev'nin (Just LOOK at how many unopened buds are yet ta come!! :o )
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-17-03.jpg)
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'nother close up a the near white peonies. Prob'y the last one ya see from my garden this year
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-15-09.jpg)
Roland the daisies are beautiful...
THIS picture though looks like a painting...your photography skills are just taking HUGE leaps...
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Roland the daisies are beautiful...
THIS picture though looks like a painting...your photography skills are just taking HUGE leaps...
Cause a the rain drops on the leaves? I wattered the garden just before taking the pictures - guess I got lucky on that score.
Here's a wider view of the same Maysville daisies, taken on the same day (two days ago now!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-17-01.jpg)
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Here's yesterday's niew of the same new daisies - more each day
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-01.jpg)
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Hey folks - got another puzzle fer y'all
Have any idea what this plant is? (hint: it's 'fruit' won't happen fer at least another month - and the 'fruit' is uneatable - I think)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-03.jpg)
This is yet another plant that's multiplying extensively.
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Jungle's lookin even fuller with the english primrose (and tomorrow, I'll post another area's primrose display)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-04.jpg)
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Here's the other 'english primrose' dominated area of the front yard. It's where the peonies meet the main flowerbed.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-05.jpg)
Yellow seems to be the dominant colour in the garden right now.
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Never did give an answer to the question about the 'fruit' produced by this plant:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-03.jpg)
in a couple a weeks I'll start seeing green growths which, in another month or two will turn into near empty orange shell - Plant's called 'chinese lantern'
Check back in late summer & I'll post the 'fruit'.
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Never did give an answer to the question about the 'fruit' produced by this plant:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-03.jpg)
in a couple a weeks I'll start seeing green growths which, in another month or two will turn into near empty orange shell - Plant's called 'chinese lantern'
Check back in late summer & I'll post the 'fruit'.
That looks really different than what I know as a CHinese lantern plant. I'll see if I can find a pic of what I call a chinese lantern.
I was thinking those were may pop's or may apples.
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Do they look like they are made out of paper?? We have a similar plant here....cool!
Roland...you have lights in your beds??
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Do they look like they are made out of paper?? We have a similar plant here....cool!
Roland...you have lights in your beds??
You mean this little mushroom plastic thingie in this flowerbed? It hardly produces any light, below the cap. On top, that's a solar panel.
Here's today's update (3 days in a row?) on the quick bloomin 'Maysville Daisy'
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-02.jpg)
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Took pictures of a couple a ground cover sedum that are blooming (that first one's finished producin flowers) Here's a second variety that just grw wild in the back yard, and now I'm using it to border beds
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-19-01.jpg)
You can see the remains (leaves) of the flox on the lower right, and in the extreme lower right, the leaves of the first type a sedum
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and an unsuccessful atemp at a close up a the blooms:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-19-02.jpg)
Actually too 6 pics and this one was the best one - I know, they're not always spretty pictures
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but you can get an idea of the shape of them...
I like your mushroom light!! adds a bit of whimsy!
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Look at what started popping up 3 days ago - not your stardard daisy (long stems) - these are short stemmed called shasta daisies:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-18-02.jpg)
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and again yesterday's view of the shasta daisies border I recreated a couple a years ago. Spread em out to twice it's lengh, but it does look thin in the main flowerbed
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-03.jpg)
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Do they look like they are made out of paper?? We have a similar plant here....cool!
Roland...you have lights in your beds??
Yes, the ones I know are like orange and purple and they look like little paper lanterns.
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Here's a third sedum. Less of a ground cover than the other two, this one's called 'donkey tail'. However the flower does resemble the other two types a sedum. Think we bought this one from Bill in Paris.
Photo taken two days ago.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-19-03.jpg)
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Here's a closeup of the flower from the 'Donkey Tail' sedum. Again, not the best a pictures - sorry.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-19-04.jpg)
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Hey Roland... Man, your yard is a WONDERFUL and HUGE bouquet of AWESOME flowers and your pictures you are so generous to share with us are prizewinners :
You should win a neighborhood or city prize for THE MOST BEAUTIFUL YARD !!!
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Hey Roland... Man, your yard is a WONDERFUL and HUGE bouquet of AWESOME flowers and your pictures you are so generous to share with us are prizewinners :
You should win a neighborhood or city prize for THE MOST BEAUTIFUL YARD !!!
Golly Gee - whadaya say ta that?
Thanks much
Blushin here! (http://bestsmileys.com/blushing/2.gif)
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It is after midnight!! what are you doing up!!??
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Aw drats! I missed you!
:( :(
bonsoir Roland!
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Was acting like school was out last night - went to bed near 12:30. And now it's past 5 and I have things to do!
However, there are a few pics in the can, so ...
My first anual poppy - from two days ago. these puppies, er I mean poppies pop up wherever they want ... never in great numbers. Last year I got one so full (as in a double) it looked like a rose, but there was a major storm that destroyed that plant and never got a second flower.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-01.jpg)
Maingy lookiing, I know. Last night, I tried to take a picture of a double bloom (not as full as last year's, but better than a single) but the light was wrong, and they only last a day ... Still I can hope more will pop up.
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Here's a more recent picture a that first feverfew plant pic - much fuller. There are more'n half a dozen a em in the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-04.jpg)
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Yesterday's one & only picture ... th first of the front yard's daylilly - a little less yellow, a little more golden,a dn smaller than the back yard daylillies that blossomed last week. (not a great picture - sorry)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-21-01-daylillygoldensmall.jpg)
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Ornamental sage in the newest flowerbed (leftovers from what was removed from the vacant flowerbed, and temporarily lodges behind the garage.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-05.jpg)
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Here's a more recent picture a that first feverfew plant pic - much fuller. There are more'n half a dozen a em in the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-20-04.jpg)
the feverfew is growing on me!
kinda LOOKS like a mini daisy...
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Are you done with that game of guess the green things Roland? ???
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the feverfew is growing on me!
kinda LOOKS like a mini daisy...
I know what you mean - I've see the double bloom variety a em in the neighbourhood. Would just love to have em in my yard, but I've not manages to get their seeds ta take.
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Are you done with that game of guess the green things Roland? ???
Janice, I stopped doing the 'Name that Plant' thing cause it was just not getting enough response.
You wanna
Name this Plant 6th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-07-peppermint.jpg)
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I know what you mean - I've see the double bloom variety a em in the neighbourhood. Would just love to have em in my yard, but I've not manages to get their seeds ta take.
simple fix:
wait til after dark...or early in the morning... ;)....and sneak down there and dig them up and transplant them into YOUR yard!!
ta da!!
(you're welcome)
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Janice, I stopped doing the 'Name that Plant' thing cause it was just not getting enough response.
You wanna
Name this Plant 6th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-07-peppermint.jpg)
!!
Marijuana!!
:-X :-X :-X
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Marijuana!!
:-X :-X :-X
NO!!!!!!
Is that always your first answer?
It's a weed herb - makes teas and a pretty popular *** flavour
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NO!!!!!!
Is that always your first answer?
It's a weed herb - makes teas and a pretty popular *** flavour
LOL!!
I get tickled cause someone once pmed me and asked me if I thought you were growing marijuana in your yard (they thought they saw some in one of the pictures you posted a LONG time ago) so everytime you post a pic of something with no flowers I think about that.... :laugh:
I mean come on...you live IN the city....and yes Canada is a bit more liberal than the US but really! ya'll don't grow weed in your FRONT yards, for God's sake!!!
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LOL!!
I get tickled cause someone once pmed me and asked me if I thought you were growing marijuana in your yard (they thought they saw some in one of the pictures you posted a LONG time ago) so everytime you post a pic of something with no flowers I think about that.... :laugh:
I mean come on...you live IN the city....and yes Canada is a bit more liberal than the US but really! ya'll don't grow weed in your FRONT yards, for God's sake!!!
You don't seem to realize just how much more liberal we are in this country when it comes to cannabis. For one thing it is less dependancy creating than legal tobacco, and a lot less damaging to the body (cause ya don't consume it in as great a quantity). The amount of attention this little plant gets is WAY out of proportion to it's true damage. (A little like the witch hunt that still exists in some parts concerning homosexuality!) Heck just a couple a years ago, the liberal government tried to delist possession a marijuana as a criminal offense, but of course, the good ol 'land a the free' put pressure on our politicians and it went on the back burner ... other problems brought about a change to a conservative (minority) governement.
My tenants, two years ago, did grow em in the front yard. I told em to take it to the back! And I'm pretty sure that Bryan has grown em in the back yard as well, at one point. Just a plant or two, mind you ...
And not all my photos are pictures a flowers in my FRONT yard ;D
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Here's yesterday's update on the only real impressive "Masysville Daisies" happenin in the yard. Photo taken near sunset.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-03-Maysvilledaisies.jpg)
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Still no guesses on the reply #387 herb picture?
Here's a picture I took yesterday. Plant's called 'shoe-fly' (according to Bill - you'll no doubt notice the fly sittin on the leaf on the right!). It's an annual, which means it grows from seed. Yer never sure a where they'll pop up. The flowers are little, but the plant will grow all summer long, and produce little flowers everyday. The seed pods (as shown near the flower) look pretty as well. Bush will grow to 4 - 4 & a half feet high.
Here's the flower.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-01-Shoefly.jpg)
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Still no guesses on the reply #387 herb picture?
Here's a picture I took yesterday. Plant's called 'shoe-fly' (according to Bill). It's an annual, which means it grows from seed. Yer never sure a where they'll pop up. The flowers are little, but the plant will grow all summer long, and produce little flowers everyday. The seed pods (as shown near the flower) look pretty as well. Bush will grow to 4 - 4 & a half feet high.
Here's the flower.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-01-Shoefly.jpg)
actually I DO know what it is...was gonna give someone ELSE a chance first...
is it
PEPPERMINT??
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actually I DO know what it is...was gonna give someone ELSE a chance first...
is it
PEPPERMINT??
Yup - it is Peppermint - congratulations Jess!
... thus the hint:
It's a weed herb - makes teas and a pretty popular *** flavour
Grows like a weed, makes tea and a pretty popular gum flavour.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-07-peppermint.jpg)
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WOOP WOOP!!
I AM the CHAMPION!!!!
YES!!
*Jess does the official Champion dance*
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Name this Plant 7th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-08-stingingnettle.jpg)
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peppermint???
???
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No!
This is a very dif'rent plant - Don't think it's a herb, but it's refered to as a 'herbacious flowering plant' in the description I found when I googled it.
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Nicotiania??
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Nicotiania??
Never heard a that ... So I googled it to make sure I wasn't wrong in saying ...
NO! Sorry, Try again ;)
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Here's another view of the shoe-fly (without the bonus fly, this time) showing a concentration (4 flowers - wow!) a flowers.
It's not a very showy plant, but it does well in dry dirt - house has an awning, and if I don't water that area, plants don't survive ... perfect for cactus &, apparently, shoe-fly
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-02-shoefly.jpg)
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Here's a picture of my delphiniums. Sits in the back yard in a shady spot between the hostas and a huge daylilly. Frequently needs to be tied up. Not yet the best picture of these, though I've taken em on at least 3 seperate occasions.
Joyeuse Saint Jean-Baptiste!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-06.jpg)
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Jess wanted to see the work in progress - well, a day late & a dollar short, but, I planted the iris in the refurbished bed tonight (ends up they were blue iris, not yellow - when ya look at the pics I took earlier.)
In this bed, making a return appearance are the bee baum, the ornamental sage and one variety of sedum. Added two other plants as well. Still room for some yellow iris, and some low annuals (I think).
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-02.jpg)
PS: plants really don't like being moved - the ones I moved yesterday look even worse taday!
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And here's the hole from which over 60 blue iris were removed. The other 50+ plants were also put in the ground this evening - in the back yard, against the fence. - Photo to follow!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-03.jpg)
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Cool! now in a while we can see the 'after' picture! Thanks for sharing even if you dont think they look good right now..
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And here's a view of the stretch a dirt Bryan prepared yesterday to welcome these many extra iris. Misjudged how much space there was. I was planting em in circular groups of 5 (like the magazine suggested) only to left with more than 10 for the last circle! Good thing they were (mostly) smaller roots.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-08.jpg)
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Each year, Bryan gives me a new lilly. This year it's a beaut! Real tall, it will, when mature, contain as many as 30 (!!!) blooms - usually 10 blooms is great! And look at it! I mean, just LOOK at it! - So elegant! - And wait till you see the detail in the close-up of this flower!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-04.jpg)
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very exotic
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Hello? where is the close up!!??
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Hello? where is the close up!!??
Sorry - I'll post it when I get home from work this afternoon. In the meantime, enjoy my new avatar ... ;D
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Sorry - I'll post it when I get home from work this afternoon. In the meantime, enjoy my new avatar ... ;D
OOO! Pretty!
but little...post the bigger pic ok??
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OOO! Pretty!
but little...post the bigger pic ok??
I can post this picture 4 times larger, if y'all like ... ;)
Also, any more guesses about "Name that plant" 7th edition? I'll be postin the answer later tonight with another puzzle.
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:D OK well it's a lily ... oo, ooo!! Tiger Lily?!?! :D
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This wasn't the one you were suppose to guess about. Yes it's a type of giant tiger lilly. The reason I dont't post the name of this one is that the name that Bryan gave me for it didn't get any results on Googles! He called it lilly regalium!
Anyways the "Name this plant" was about this picture:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-08-stingingnettle.jpg)
and it's "Stinging Nettle", a plant that tomato plants love! Creates a rash on human (and animal) skin - great as a border if you got problems with kids climbing your fence to get their lost ball!
I'll be posting an easier "Name that Plant" in a little while! ;D
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I knew that one too...but I didn't want to be a showoff or anything... :)
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I knew that one too...but I didn't want to be a showoff or anything... :)
Un hunh - everyone believes you Jess ...
Any hoo,
Here's the next (real easy)
Name this Plant 8th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-09-wildoregano.jpg)
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MARAJUANA!!!
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MARAJUANA!!!
YUP!!!!
Congratulations!!!
not!
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oh you are SO wrong!!
WRONG
first you are off teasing another woman...and now THIS!
>:( >:( >:(
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:D It's good with wild basghetti!!
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:D It's good with wild basghetti!!
it is a MEATBALL plant!! A WILD meatball plant!!
(thanks Wayne!!)
See Roland? I got smart friends to help me!
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Wayne just tell us the answer - get Jess outta her misery!
Such an easy one, too!
meatball plant - really!!
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No takers yet, hunh? Well in the meantime...
Here's the yucca plant (got 5 of em - 3 of em'll bloom) - the first one to flowers this year. Looks to be tropical or desert like, leaves being hard, pointy & mean while the blooms are fairly plain (coulda been taken with the same effect by a black & white camera)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-01.jpg)
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Wayne just tell us the answer - get Jess outta her misery!
Such an easy one, too!
meatball plant - really!!
mushroom plant!!
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mushroom plant!!
Do I have to answer?
Speaking of which ... did you add mushrooms to yer shish-kebobs yesterday?
And no - aint no such thing as mushroom plants. Muchrooms grow on worms!
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Do I have to answer?
Speaking of which ... did you add mushrooms to yer shish-kebobs yesterday?
And no - aint no such thing as mushroom plants. Muchrooms grow on worms!
Parmesan Plant? ???
what else is good on Pasghetti??
;)
Oregono!!
right?
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Parmesan Plant? ???
what else is good on Pasghetti??
;)
Oregono!!
right?
Yup it's parmasan er I mean oregano - but that was suppose ta be an easy one! (some farmer you are!!!)
Got one more - postin it later tonight!
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A WILD meatball plant!!
;D :laugh: :laugh:
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Just got home & I'm exhausted. Reached at leat 34*C today and in the house right now it's 31*C. Plus I'm just not usta gettin home at 7:00 pm - been away for 12 hours!
took this picture a couple a days ago. Looks like it's gonna be the best showin of this flower, seeing as many of the fist blooms are now beyond their best.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-05.jpg)
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For the last couple a years, I've had this plant growing in the crack between the paved driveway and the house. Last year I tried to uproot it - unsuccessfully. Never even got to see what kind a lilly it was.
Turns out it was an Easter Lilly :-\ Now how did an Easter lilly got to grow there?!?! I never let my lillies go to seed. And besides, I haven't had as Easter lilly in many years - Ah ... the mysteries of life. It's pretty though. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-06.jpg)
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Just got home & I'm exhausted. Reached at leat 34*C today and in the house right now it's 31*C. Plus I'm just not usta gettin home at 7:00 pm - been away for 12 hours!
took this picture a couple a days ago. Looks like it's gonna be the best showin of this flower, seeing as many of the fist blooms are now beyond their best.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-05.jpg)
This is a gaillardia or Indian Blanket. I just saw the first one of the season last nite on my run. I saw a bunch of flowers I wanted to photograph, but my daughter has stolen my camera and I hope I get it back soon.
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This is a gaillardia or Indian Blanket. I just saw the first one of the season last nite on my run. I saw a bunch of flowers I wanted to photograph, but my daughter has stolen my camera and I hope I get it back soon.
I still have the label that came with the plant "Maysville Daisy Coreopsis auriculata 'Nana'" right there on the label ... although the image doesn't show the black near the center - could conceivably have been mislabeled.
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Awright here's the 4th of 4
Name this Plant 9th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-10-sage.jpg)
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bluebells??
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bluebells??
No
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The shasta daisies are pretty much in full show pattern. There's just a lot less there than what I would have expected in this it's second year of 'replanting'
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-01.jpg)
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Roland,
You're going to have to grow some Aussie natives in that garden of yours. Even up the odds a bit. Most of the plants you're choosing for your quiz are ones I've never seen growing here (or even heard of :-\).
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Truth is, this current one's a herb (again). I'm pretty sure I've shown a picture of an ornamental variety of these (and named em too)
And here's another hint: this one's very much a (****) bush. ;D ---> think western movies
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Running so far behind ... Here's my first (wll actually got three or 4 plants with a bloom all at once) sunflower of the year!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-02.jpg)
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SAGE!!
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Yup it's a sage bush - and it actually looks like tumble weed when naked. Tried using in dishes but, I don't know ... don't much care for the taste of it.
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SAGE!!
Our wise one, jess, beat me to it.
So you don't even put sage in your turkey dressing, Roland? Mebbe they don't eat turkey in Canada.
On the Indian blanket, I will look at the foliage on mine when I get home tonite. That should provide the answer.
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Did I already say, even my italian parsley's producing flowers - must be in the second year of it's growth - should be producing seeds, if I'm lucky.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-07.jpg)
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I hate to rain on your parade but this one is a trumpet lily.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-06.jpg)
I hate to rain on your parade but this one is a trumpet lily.
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HEE HEE!!
Hi JT!!
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Ha - ha - got you to post 'Juice'! ;D
Easter lilly, or Trumpet lilly - still don't 'splain how it got there! - You KNOW we don't let em go to seed!
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Can't seem to get a good picture of this Yarrow. Maingy looking plant, but it's introduction in the main flowerbed a number of years ago was to contrast diff'rnt leaffy textures (lupin, lilly, poppies, tulips and yarrow). Got used to it and because of the (temporary) move of the poppies and other plants to the back yard 2 years ago (when I was reviving the main flowerbed), most of it got to be now growing in the back. Anyways, - it's a real tall plant that needs to be tied up.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-06.jpg)
Hey - check out the background of this photo ... you can see the newest temporary home of the blue iris!
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Now let's see ... So far I've posted both siberian iris, two varieties of daylillies (I think), 2 lillies ... Think the main show's about ta begin.
This daylilly main bunch grows in a shady area and has been growing to about 5 feet tall - and it's been spreading in the lawn so I transplanted a few of these near the house. Course the warmth of the house has caused this earlier bloom - main show of this type a plant hasn't really started yet, but this is what that bloom's gonna look like.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-05.jpg)
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WOW !!!! WOW !!!! WOW !!!!
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Now let's see ... So far I've posted both siberian iris, two varieties of daylillies (I think), 2 lillies ... Think the main show's about ta begin.
This daylilly main bunch grows in a shady area and has been growing to about 5 feet tall - and it's been spreading in the lawn so I transplanted a few of these near the house. Course the warmth of the house has caused this earlier bloom - main show of this type a plant hasn't really started yet, but this is what that bloom's gonna look like.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-05.jpg)
I thought it was already on!!
:o
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I thought it was already on!!
:o
How could I have missed this!
No this is where the main show's gonna happen:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-04.jpg)
and it's already begun ... Since I took this picture (2 days ago), two yellow lillies have opened up in here, plus 4 orange ones in the jungle ...
Then as an encore, I hope later this summer to catch some a the yellow birds that LOVE the sunflowers (didn't have digital last summer)
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Neighbou just finished spending more'n a half hour appreciating my plants. went ga-ga over the colour a this one (from the jungle). Mind you, this pic is 2 days old - got me 4 blooms on it now.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-03.jpg)
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Now let's see ... So far I've posted both siberian iris, two varieties of daylillies (I think), 2 lillies ... Think the main show's about ta begin.
Way back on May 6, I posted the following:
I've been takin weekly snapshots of the garden (as per Jess's request) and I guess yer right, they do seem to progress rather quickly... and there's a lot more to come - The irises are still a couple a weeks away (and there are dif'rent varieties, as well as dif'rent colours), and the peonies, and the columbines, and the bleeding hearts and the poppies, and various other little surprises - Gosh I did even mention the main show - the lillies (my personal favourite) and the daylillies!
The show's just startin!
So Jess, when I say the main show, I meant it - way back in early May and again this mornin!
I thought it was already on!!
:o
Hope I'm not over-hyping the lilies & the daylilies :-\ by saying the last 25 pages were just a warm up.
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In my garden, even onion (something like giant aliums) gets to shine
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-09.jpg)
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last night I posted a very lovely lily picture. Well I got two more a that one ta show you. First, same plant taken 2 days later:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-01.jpg)
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:o :o
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ok where is my picture??!!
although you are gonna be hardpressed to find a better pic than the one you are using in your avator...THAT one is gorgeous....
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Here it is Jess - the daylilie I got at Canada Blooms way back in April(?). At this point it looks like it's gonna be the only bloom from all three plants (Thelma, Louise & Jess). Plants look healthy but they're real short and I don't see any more buds (yet). Took two real good pictures though ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-29-03.jpg)
Lovely how the ornamental sage happenes ta be right next ta em ... and the water drops (watered the flowerbeds just before I took the picture this morning) add to the beauty a this pic! :)
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Oh my lort, Roland...that is amazing! I have NEVER seen a lily with colors like that!!
oh I am SO jealous!! what a beautiful plant...are all three the same? Will it multiply on its own like irises do?
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that is 'my' picture, right?? ;D
:) ;)
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Oh my lort, Roland...that is amazing! I have NEVER seen a lily with colors like that!!
oh I am SO jealous!! what a beautiful plant...are all three the same? Will it multiply on its own like irises do?
Thought you'd like that. Daylilies do multiply, and grow year by year, but it'll take time. Told ya it was a special picture. May not be a prettier flower than my in my avatar, but it's definitively a woozer!!!
And just wait, the main show's starting - now we'll be getting great numbers of the 'ordinary' lilies and daylilies (and a few - like half a dozen, at least, of really lovely varieties)
I got really 3 great flower periods ... the tulips, the iris/peonies and the lily/daylily season.
that is 'my' picture, right?? ;D
Yes Jess this is your namesake daylily!
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ok then! I am gonna steal it and save it to MY computer!! HA!!!!
mine mine mine!!
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Wait Jess - got an even better picture of the same flower ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-29-04.jpg)
Now if you want to put it as your desktop, you might want me to send you the original picture (near 4 times larger) - just ask
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Hey Sheriff...I've seen MANY daylillies in my 66+ years of life BUT N-E-V-E-R a daylilly the colour and beauty of that one !!! WOW !!! AWESOME !!! :)
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Hey Sheriff...I've seen MANY daylillies in my 66+ years of life BUT N-E-V-E-R a daylilly the colour and beauty of that one !!! WOW !!! AWESOME !!! :)
What can I say ... your compliments are more than I can know how to react ... I just bought em and took the picture ... I didn't create em
Yea, it is pretty isn't it
(http://bestsmileys.com/blushing/2.gif)
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Here are the delphiniums for one last look - don't think they'll look any better'n this.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-08.jpg)
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Name that Plant part one :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-14.jpg)
got until tomorrow ta try with yer answer
I'm sure this was answered long ago, but I just started at the beginning and have reached pge 17 - it's chamomile!
Roland, this is amazing. I adore peonies, and irises, and lupines. This is a gorgeous show!
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Ok ill play your game one more time...sassafras??
Sassafras it's just the root you dig for tea.
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Ok, here's a second puzzle in the
Name that Plant challenge, part two :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-16.jpg)
Question is about that curvin stem. Another picture will be posted tomorrow (unless y'all get it right away)
Garlic?
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OK, time for theName that Plant puzzle du jour. :)
The whole picture (pretty much) is the same type a plant
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-10-19.jpg)
Rue? But the leaves look a little too big. Did you know (if this IS rue) that you are never supposed to do anything but STEAL rue from someone else's garden? Not buy it, or be given it? I forget how that bit of folklore came about...
But the time I got some from a friend, we agreed she would turn her back while I "secretly" dug some up. :)
I wish I'd known this thread was about PLANTS! :) (I'm only on Page 19)
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BTW, nobody's tried ta name this plant yet either, any takers?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-14-09.jpg)
The other kind of chamomile? There's Roman and another kind (I forget the name, and I forget which is which).
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Janice, I stopped doing the 'Name that Plant' thing cause it was just not getting enough response.
You wanna
Name this Plant 6th edition. :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-07-peppermint.jpg)
A mint?
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Un hunh - everyone believes you Jess ...
Any hoo,
Here's the next (real easy)
Name this Plant 8th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-09-wildoregano.jpg)
Oregano?
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Looks like lemon; not the last one...the one with the yellow flowers
verbena?
Roland just want to say your garden is food for the soul. Thank you so much for sharing.
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This is a gaillardia or Indian Blanket. I just saw the first one of the season last nite on my run. I saw a bunch of flowers I wanted to photograph, but my daughter has stolen my camera and I hope I get it back soon.
Lee, it does look like Gaillardia (Blanket Flower), but it's smaller. I agree it looks like a kind of coreopsis (though not one I remember ever seeing.)
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Awright here's the 4th of 4
Name this Plant 9th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-10-sage.jpg)
A little hard to tell the size and texture. Sage? Lamb's ears?
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Elle is placing her guesses as she's reading along - all have been answered within 10 posts of the original posting a the question/plant.
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evening Roland...notice anything new??
;D
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Hi Roland, I've made it through all 32 pages now. If you want, I can delete all those guesses, since they were long answered already. Let me know.
I hope you do LOTS of NAME THAT PLANT. I would love that game. That was really fun. I haven't gardened in a few years, so it draws on recently unused parts of my brain.
What a gorgeous garden, and really good photographs, too.
I had no idea....
No wonder your sig line - I thought you were just referring to Le Petit Prince. (And do you know the Gil Bécaud song too?)
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Sure do - that's real nice, Jess
Oh by the way - will have a new bloom from the same plant in a day or two (that first one's already looking old - they're daylilies cause they only last a day - but a picture lasts longer ;) )
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Sure do - that's real nice, Jess
Oh by the way - will have a new bloom from the same plant in a day or two (that first one's already looking old - they're daylilies cause they only last a day - but a picture lasts longer ;) )
Thand you for posting it.. and letting me have it! I saw some flowers in the Dallas Morning news and thought of you...I may try to upload them this weekend..
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Hi Roland, I've made it through all 32 pages now. If you want, I can delete all those guesses, since they were long answered already. Let me know.
I hope you do LOTS of NAME THAT PLANT. I would love that game. That was really fun. I haven't gardened in a few years, so it draws on recently unused parts of my brain.
What a gorgeous garden, and really good photographs, too.
I had no idea....
No wonder your sig line - I thought you were just referring to Le Petit Prince. (And do you know the Gil Bécaud song too?)
Actually it was a reference to Le petit prince and the Gilbert Bécaud song (I had been listening to that very song on my i-pod that afternoon before I got home)
I don't grow roses - they don't survive in my hands. :-\
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Awright, just cause Elle asked, here's yet another
Name this Plant 10th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-02.jpg)
Don't think there are a lot a unusual plants left to post, but this one might be a bit of a challenge. I've actually talked about it before, just never posted a picture of it till now.
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Awright, just cause Elle asked, here's yet another
Name this Plant 10th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-02.jpg)
Don't think there are a lot a unusual plants left to post, but this one might be a bit of a challenge. I've actually talked about it before, just never posted a picture of it till now.
It's not a peony?
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Oh wait, tu veux dire le "Chinese Lantern!"
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It's not a peony?
No not a peonie - peonie season's finished now. Look at the stem and the tiny leaves.
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Oh wait, tu veux dire le "Chinese Lantern!"
Je ne comprends pas ce à quoi tu fais référence avec ce commentaire. Si c'est une autre réponse pour la plante mystère d'aujourd'hui - non! Les lanternes chinoises seront vertes et ensuite oranges et ne paraitront pas pour plusieures semaines encore.
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The little green thingies in the background? Not Chinese Lanterns?
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The little green thingies in the background? Not Chinese Lanterns?
No, those are (pretty) seed pods for the very pretty (but sparse) shoefly flowers/plant. Posted pictues of the plant before (June 24, reply #403, some 6 pages ago). Not sure if that's their real name - it's the name Bill, who gave us the plant, called it.
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Here's a recent (yesterday) view of the shoefly plant - notice the seed pods (wish the camera would focus on the flower instead a the leaves.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-28-04.jpg)
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Awright, just cause Elle asked, here's yet another
Name this Plant 10th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-02.jpg)
Don't think there are a lot a unusual plants left to post, but this one might be a bit of a challenge. I've actually talked about it before, just never posted a picture of it till now.
argh!!!
I remember the conversation....can't remember the name of the plant though....
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Took this 3rd picture of these orange lilies just yesterday morning. Meant to post it closer to the others but other posts happened!
Still - dang vivd colours coming through on these beauties.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-29-01.jpg)
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*Jess taps her foot, checks her watch*
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*Jess taps her foot, checks her watch*
Hunh?!?! ??? Whatchu waitin for - I posted the new picture - check the time the last one!
WHAT!!!!!!!
I posted one! I swear. With text & all - even added a hint to "name this plant"!!
Guess I gotta do it all over again
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Here's a 2 day ol picture a the feverfew and the faux (annual) black-eyed susan. Took a picture of those susans this mornin from an area (on the side a the garage) where the plant's done VERY well - but then I took 9 pictures this mornin!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-28-03.jpg)
Concerning the 'Name this Plant' 10th edition - it's an annual of which I also have 2 varieties of perenials. The seed pod a this plant is partially shown Waaaay up at the top a that picture.
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very pretty picture...I like the snowy white in with the rich yellow
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Been meanin to take a picture a this flower fer over a month, but they's just not opened just right when I'm out waterin in the mornin and they're done by the time I get back home in the afternoon (and who knows what happens on weekends) It's growing from seeds in the cracks of the driveway - have to pull out a hunderd a these plants ev'ry year. Last year, Bryan took some home to grow in his little 2 X 3 foot sandbox he calls 'garden' on his rooftop - and they took!
So here they are. this is prob'ly too easy, but - go ahead -
Name this Plant 11th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-01.jpg)
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MORNING GLORIES!!!!!
and I didn't even CHEAT this time!
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I love morning glory's! ;D
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they were talking about banning the sale of them around here a couple of years ago...apparently you can use the seeds to get high...
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MORNING GLORIES!!!!!
and I didn't even CHEAT this time!
and you beat Lee by a full 51 seconds - congrats!
I love morning glory's! ;D
Like I said - too dang easy! Now what about last night's plant, hunh? no takers (talkin about edition 10 here!)
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and you beat Lee by a full 51 seconds - congrats!
Like I said - too dang easy! Now what about last night's plant, hunh? no takers (talkin about edition 10 here!)
lupin!!
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lupin!!
Now that's just as silly a guess as marijuana! - you've seen the leaves (and blooms of lupin) - I think you're turnin luppy.
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I love morning glories too, but my husband sure doesn't. He used to live in a house where the yard was overrun with morning glories. I think they might be illegal here because of their invasive properties.
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Now that's just as silly a guess as marijuana! - you've seen the leaves (and blooms of lupin) - I think you're turnin luppy.
>:( >:(
;D
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I've posted some yellow daisies, some shasta daisies, some feverfew and will post some double-bloom daisies (no yellow centres) later, but I also got the regular daisies in the back yard. Only dif'rence I can see from the shasta daisies is, the stems are longer - these look a little more raggedy (from the back yard - way in the back, near the fence)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-28-06.jpg)
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they were talking about banning the sale of them around here a couple of years ago...apparently you can use the seeds to get high...
How?!?! :laugh:
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How?!?! :laugh:
Sumthin got yer attention there tru? hunh? ::) ;)
prob'ly grind em, snort em, smoke em or chew em ... or maybe ya heve to put em in yer eyes - ya ready ta try anything right?
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How?!?! :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
now now Truman!!
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I think they do grind them and smoke them....
Roland how do YOU know so much??? huh??
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Awright
been practically 24 hours and nobody's identified last night's puzzle:
Name this Plant 10th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-02.jpg)
It's a double bloom poppy, the anual variety ... sorry, I tried to look for a single bloom poppy to help compare, but the bloom's the only thing I got. Believe me, when the bloom's gone, it looks exactly like the single bloom variety.
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I think they do grind them and smoke them....
Roland how do YOU know so much??? huh??
Wisdom comes with age! ;D
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This evening's new photo is again Jess's lovely daylily, a wider view:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-29-07.jpg)
bad news - the second bloom I was expecting ... fell off. :-\
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'fell off'???
or PULLED OFF?? >:(
:laugh: :laugh:
poppy huh?? first the morning glories and now POPPIES!! What the heck is going on up there!!??
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Giving you a hard time's what happenin here up north
Here' a easy one just fer you Jess:
Name this Plant 12th edition :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-28-07.jpg)
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raspberries!!
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raspberries!!
But uv course, my leettle chikadee. What gave it away? the leaves? my hint? what??? ::)
And like most a the other pictures of the last 27 pages or so, this picture is also from my yard.
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But uv course, my leettle chikadee. What gave it away? the leaves? my hint? what??? ::)
And like most a the other pictures of the last 27 pages or so, this picture is also from my yard.
you got raspberries?? cool! I would pick some in the morning to have in my cereal!
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They're coming ... first, the tiger lily (very similar to the turks cap lily from last week)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-02.jpg)
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Next, the lovely yellow lily
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-03.jpg)
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Then there's the plain near red lily (without the tiger spots)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-04.jpg)
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This one only opened up this morning -
the first of a paler yellow lily with dark insides - oops this ain't it - they've not opened yet - this is more of a cream coloured newly aquired variety (didn't remember em, but I know they're not where I planted the previously described black centered pale yellow lilies.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-03.jpg)
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Been a while since I posted these yellow daylilies from the front yard - much smaller than the ones in the back - almost golden in look - thus the name 'Stella D'Or'
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-28-02.jpg)
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Here's today's view of the marvelous orange lilies in my jungle:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-05.jpg)
And why am I posting so much today ? Cause it's Canada day silly!
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HAPPY CANADA DAY, AND GARDEN Roland
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Thanks Janice
Has it been a whole hour since my last picture? ... then
Looks like the chinese lanterns are growing faster yhan I predicted - sure they're not orange yet, but they're recognizable already.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-08.jpg)
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Happy Canada Day, Sheriff!
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Thanks Jess - How you likin my flower fest so far today?
Don't know what type a flower this is - grown in the area behing the house where we put a bunch a plants 4 or 5 years ago. These grow quite tall, and, to the best of my recollection, they'll continue to bloom for at least a couple a weeks
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-07.jpg)
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Here's a 'cut flower' who's name I don't recall - got it a long time ago, and moved half of em last year from the back to the newly bordered area. Leaves look to be daisy related, so I refer ta em as my double bloom daisies.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-10.jpg)
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How about a dif'rent yucca plant (actually two - side by side). I had posted the one nearest the house before. These are right next to this year's new hole in the ground.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-12.jpg)
P.S. this my 10th posted picture today ... and I've only used two of the 9 I took this morning, so ... I'm not done yet!
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Goodness! we are having quite a flower show in honor of Canada Day....do you have any other plans for the day? How do ya'll normally celebrate?
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Goodness! we are having quite a flower show in honor of Canada Day....do you have any other plans for the day? How do ya'll normally celebrate?
Been working in the garden a little (ultimatum from Bryan)
I don't much celebrate much a any holidays. Canadians in genral? well there's always treating it like a Summer Sunday - picnicking, going to the cottage, receiving guessts fer supper (that's what Bryan's dion). Then there are fireworks, and what's become an all day Parliament Hill televised party with live bands (currently popular canadian bands from both french and english Canada) - Although I suspect there have been some changes on how that's done with the need for more security than in the 90's.
Anyhoot, the next picture... the afore-mentioned faux (or annual) black-eyed susan that are doing really well on the south side of the garage (where no flower has ever been planted).
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-09.jpg)
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ultamatum??? From Bryan??
and what is he gonna do if you don't work in the garden?? huh??
you are too big to get a whuppin!
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ultamatum??? From Bryan??
Yup.
"If I get there tomorrow and you ain't done what I asked, then I just turn around & don't do any work in the garden this week!"
Anyways, here's an early look at the red hot pokers. Used ta have em in the main flowerbed, but last year ... nothing. This year, a healthy plant's growing behind the house. Bryan don't remember moving it there, or planting it there (and neither do I), but ... there it is!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-05.jpg)
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Yup.
"If I get there tomorrow and you ain't done what I asked, then I just turn around & don't do any work in the garden this week!"
Anyways, here's an early look at the red hot pokers. Used ta have em in the main flowerbed, but last year ... nothing. This year, a healthy plant's growing behind the house. Bryan don't remember moving it there, or planting it there (and neither do I), but ... there it is!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-05.jpg)
dang!! he is being all tough with you! he is coming on a Monday? that is new isn't it?
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Here's another small flower that bloomed just this morning - continued to open up during the day so it actually looks better now than when I took the picture this morning (but I LIKE the way it looks right now too! ;D ) Not sure what it's called - maybe Bryan will know, & might tell me tomorrow.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-04.jpg)
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Computer connection problems are gone for the time being - so I'll post another picture ... Yesterday's view of the shasta daisies in the main flowerbed
14th picture today (wonder what I'll have left for the rest a the week ;) )
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-01.jpg)
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I figured you would be finished ten pages ago! Your yard doesn't seem like it is big enough to have such a variety of plants in it!!
:o :o
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I figured you would be finished ten pages ago! Your yard doesn't seem like it is big enough to have such a variety of plants in it!!
:o :o
Not to worry ... got more.
Gonna finish tonight with a global view of the lilies (as of today) just to show what I mean when I say the show's just about to start. Then I'll still have 4 more photos for tomorrow, including a not yet shown bloom. And who knows what the day after will bring! (got al least 4 varieties of lilies that have yet to open up! - the pinks, the blacks, the whites. and the light yellow - oh & then there are the minis & the starbusts & the very scented trumpet-like tall ones - oh & the giant yellow spotted. I'm no doubt forgettin some ... old age - the memory's the 3rd thing to go)
Oh & that doesn't include the dif'rent varieties of daylilies yet to come ;D
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black lillies??
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Awright - nearly 11 pm here. Will have posted some 15 pics taday, all taken in the last two days.
Finishin off with a view seen before as early as last April when the shoots were just barely showing. Some are blooming, most have yet to do so. Figure in the next 15 days all the garden's attention's gonna be directed t'wards this flowerbed as the main group a lilies do their stuff.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-06.jpg)
Humm that's not bad - Think I'll try the four-times-larger picture a this one as my dest top for a few days...
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It's just perfect as my desktop. Got a wide screen monitor and the picture gets stretched out beautifully - lotsa detail - bright colours and lotsa unopened blooms showing promise. I love this one!
If you would like any of the pictures posted, in a larger format, send me a pm with your e-mail address.
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Awright - nearly 11 pm here. Will have posted some 15 pics taday, all taken in the last two days.
Finishin off with a view seen before as early as lasy april when the shoots were just barely showing. Some are blooming, most have yet to do so. Figure in the next 15 days all the garden's attention's gonna be directed t'wards this flowerbed as the main group a lilies do their stuff.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-06.jpg)
Humm that's not bad - Think I'll try the four-times-larger picture a this one as my dest top for a few days...
WHOA!
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It's just perfect as my desktop. Got a wide screen monitor and the picture gets stretched out beautifully - lotsa detail - bright colours and lotsa unopened blooms showing promise. I love this one!
If you would like any of the pictures posted, in a larger format, send me a pm with your e-mail address.
look at the light! just wonderful....that is a really NICE pic Roland....
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WHOA!
Yea like fire works, I thought I'd finish off with a big bang, but I didn't realize that it would be this effective
I'm pleased! ;D
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Yea like fire works, I thought I'd finish off with a big bang, but I didn't realize that it would be this effective
I'm pleased! ;D
crap....that picture looks crystal clear and stunning on this old computer...I am turning my new computer (with the better graphics card) to take another look! (send me this one too...LOL!) please?
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Good morning
If you're visiting for the very first time, you might wanna start about on the 12th page, when things started happening at a more colourful rate (such as Elle has directed from the banner.) For a quick view a what's what NOW, go back a couple a pages - went crazy yesterday & posted more'n a dozen pics. Course if you got the time (an hour or two) start around page 5 (the first 60 posts are pictures of my trip in Northern Ontario, last summer)
Awright ... today's first pic ...
a close-up of the double bloom daisie I introduced ya to yesterday:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-11.jpg)
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One last look at Jess's daylily - seems like there ain't gonna be another bloom this year! :-\
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-29-06.jpg)
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WOW! I loved tuning in to Bettermost today and seeing the new banner. Beautiful! Can we get a panoramic view of the garden? It must be a playground for the senses around there!
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WOW! I loved tuning in to Bettermost today and seeing the new banner. Beautiful! Can we get a panoramic view of the garden? It must be a playground for the senses around there!
You won't believe this, but that's exactly what I've been doing while you posted this! A couple a months ago I took 4 shots of the front yard...
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,8507.458.html
and just now I've taken the same shots (hey there ain't no new flowers so I gotta post sumthin, right?)
Anyways, I still have to download em on the computer, re-size em, photobucket em then I'll post one an hour - how does that sound?
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LOL--I just returned to modify and saw your new post. I went back to page 12 and when I got to page 15, I saw that you had already posted a panorama on June 8. But--today it will have changed in some ways, so I will look forward to seeing it. Thanks! (I have just a few flowers and I like to look at them every day--and I often drive around my little town just to look at my neighbor's flowers. Your neighbors must love coming by your house!)
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first a 4 - from my stoop looking straight down onto the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-01.jpg)
Grass is looking a little worn down. I don't take care of the grass, except to remove weeds, I water the flowers only.
You'll also note, if you compare these pics to the ones I took May 4th, that the neighbour's house across the street has gone throught a face lift.
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Sheriff Roland, you have a beautiful garden! :)
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Roland, your garden is awesome! It must be the talk of your neighborhood.
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Bryan showed up - wanted to defrag the computer - just getting back to BetterMost this minute...
Second image, from the sanctuary
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-02.jpg)
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FRAN!! PASSIONSCOWBOYS!!!
Nice a the both a you ta visit
3rd a 4 pics of the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-03.jpg)
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Roland, I see that, just like Ennis, you reside at No. 17!!!
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Roland, I see that, just like Ennis, you reside at No. 17!!!
Yup been my favourite number fer a very long time - one a the things that attracted me to this place ... 17 years ago!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-04.jpg)
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Got a request to make ...
The pale yellow lily with dark centre came out yesterday. Since Bryan was here we both took a picture of the flower's bloom. Now you get to pick which of the two, mine or Bryan's you like the best. Not saying if the first of two view is mine or Bryan's ...
Here's the first:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-06.jpg)
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Good morning friend. i just came by to see the latest in your blooming world..I love to see your pictures...I just wanted to tell you how much I love your beautiful yucca.. Being from California I have had Yucca all my life, and I know its a special thing when it blooms...just gorgeous.
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Thanks Janice - You're gonna LOVE the picture of the two yucca plants in bloom that Bryan took yesterday - Gonna post it later on today, but for now ...
The second view of the same yellow lily. Let me know which you like the best, the other one (photo #1) or this one (photo #2)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-05.jpg)
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oh no! are you gonna be mad if we pick Bryans?? :laugh:
I personally like the FIRST one... :)
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I ain't gonna be mad ... I may stop talking to ya, but I ain't gonna be mad!
Here's an early picture of the pink fluff (Bryan calls it pink flox - but it's 4 -5 feet tall!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-06.jpg)
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I ain't gonna be mad ... I may stop talking to ya, but I ain't gonna be mad!
Here's an early picture of the pins fluff (Bryan calls it pink flox - but it's 4 -5 feet tall!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-06.jpg)
LOL! well I will find out later this afternoon then if you are still talking to me or not!!
;)
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That's so cool that your house number is 17! I like that number too, since that was the age when I was a junior in high school, and I condsidered that my favorite grade!!
Both of the dark-centered lily pictures are pretty, but I like the "pose" in the SECOND picture better. (I hope that's Roland's) ;D
::) I didn't get any help from Jess!
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I like Photo #2. I like the slight angle of the lily (where you can see the curve of the bottom petals).
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Yucca, phlox,, la la lala yucca, la la, not seeing no lilys la la la, yucca pretty....
not getting in the middle of that..... :-*
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Thanks Fran and Shasta fer taking the plunge . Janice - don't be 'fraid a the water - ain't no sharks in these parts! ;)
Here's another view of the really tall yellow flowers. The leaves have nothing in common with daisies (Photo taken from above). Seems ta me threre were some doupbe bllom amongt em last year, but all a these look to be simple daisy-like petals
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-07.jpg)
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By the looks of the leaves, and the shape of the petals. Those appear to be some kind of single layer chrysanthemum.
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FRAN!! PASSIONSCOWBOYS!!!
Nice a the both a you ta visit
3rd a 4 pics of the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-03.jpg)
such a tidy and pretty garden, I wish mine was so nice looking!
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such a tidy and pretty garden, I wish mine was so nice looking!
That's an illusion perpetrated by the flower bed borders. I got major weeds growing in the driveway and that first flowerbed's mostly unwanted grasses. Actually Bryan was here yesterday and tore down that bed. Moved the daylilies to the back yard, so it looks right empty now. Two down, one to go (the one on the right, along the neighbour's driveway's gonna get refurbished this summer too).
Kelda - you didn't vote - on which of the two pictures of the pale yellow lily you like the best! (posted earlier today)
As promised earlier, here's Bryan's very lovely photo of the yucca plants (on the left of the last picture).
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-07.jpg)
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Oh my goodness Roland that is one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen...you have
given us such feasts for the eyes and heart. But that Yucca is something else. Its a shower of
natures beauty. I never get tired of looking at your flowers
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Yucca, phlox,, la la lala yucca, la la, not seeing no lilys la la la, yucca pretty....
not getting in the middle of that..... :-*
chicken!!! bak bak bak!!
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That's an illusion perpetrated by the flower bed borders. I got major weeds growing in the driveway and that first flowerbed's mostly unwanted grasses. Actually Bryan was here yesterday and tore down that bed. Moved the daylilies to the back yard, so it looks right empty now. Two down, one to go (the one on the right, along the neighbour's driveway's gonna get refurbished this summer too).
Kelda - you didn't vote - on which of the two pictures of the pale yellow lily you like the best! (posted earlier today)
As promised earlier, here's Bryan's very lovely photo of the yucca plants (on the left of the last picture).
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-07.jpg)
I can'r see them at work now but i remember thinking the second one - close up - was gorgeous!
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I musta taken 4 pics a these - but they always look fuller than the previous attempt at capturin em
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-08.jpg)
A combination a the regular garden variety daylilies and the delphiniums in the mornin sunlight.
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Got a few new plants to feature today, and some lovely new close-ups a old plants
Nothing special about this one (except I've not posted em til now) - they're colombines cosmos. (Thanks Elle)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-02.jpg)
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You tryin' ta pull the wool over our eyes, Sheriff? Them's cosmos. :)
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You tryin' ta pull the wool over our eyes, Sheriff? Them's cosmos. :)
Oops - yup gonna go change it right away. Wrong word came out!
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he, he I always think of Donald O'Connor when I see those flowers. He played Cosmo in Singing in the Rain. What a great comic actor!
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Shasta changed her vote (not allowed), so if I keep to the original votes so far it's 2 to 2 and Janice refusing to express an opinion. Anymore takers?
Here are the two options (in reduced image form),
first, photo #1 (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-06.jpg) then photo #2 (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-05.jpg)
For larger images, go back about 24 hours. Final results and the truth about who took which picture will be revealed tonight.
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okay...see in the big picture I like the first...but in the small I like the second....
no really! I am NOT trying to be diplomatic!
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Ok I will cast my vote. But if I say the wrong thing you gonna hate me ??
i have two reasons for not wanting to choose. I like them both for
different reasons. But if you make me choose... door #2
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Ok I will cast my vote. But if I say the wrong thing you gonna hate me ??
Naw I ain't gonna hate ya - I may stop talkin ta ya, but I ain't gonna hate ya!! ;D
Here's today's new daylily - a kinda pink/peach colour. Small plant, gonna produce just a few blooms. Hum ..., maybe I should move it in the first (newly torn down) flowerbed - will be needin some short plants there and daylilies are perfect for a slope.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-03.jpg)
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I love daylilies. When I moved to Mississippi from New York, I took some daylily tubers from my mom's yard in new York, and they did great there too. I have often wondered why there aren't lots of them here in Seattle. They seem to be an easy-going flower that does well in a variety of conditions.
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last of the new flowers/herb/plant fer today
It's a bee balm (removed/returned from/to the 2nd row, but this bunch is happily growing behind the garage) It has a citrusy fragrance.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-09.jpg)
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Same Yarrow I posted a little over a week ago, but they're looking fuller (and the close-up picture I took - posting it tomorrow - actually goves some detail).
you have only one hour left to put in your vote for your favourite pic a the pale yellow lilly
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-06.jpg)
Not to worry, Jocelyn - I'm pretty sure this is a native weed plant.
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The final tally of the votes after 40 hours (or so), 3 votes for photo #2, and 2 for photo #1
the winning photo and photagrapher is
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-05.jpg)
me/mine
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Oh good I guessed right!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
of course we only have your WORD that that is YOUR picture...where is Bryan?? I want some verification!!
;) ;)
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Oh good I guessed right!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
of course we only have your WORD that that is YOUR picture...where is Bryan?? I want some verification!!
;) ;)
Whatcha talkin 'bout? You & Shasta voted for #1 (Bryan's). He usually takes better photos than me, but I was proud a my photo this time.
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Nope....I am pretty sure I voted for number 2.... :)
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oh no! are you gonna be mad if we pick Bryans?? :laugh:
I personally like the FIRST one... :)
looks to me like ya voted for Bryan's
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looks to me like ya voted for Bryan's
nope....I am pretty sure I didn't....you musta altered it....I NEVER use that size print..
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ok ok!! I did vote for Bryan's I admit it...
(since Roland wont bite at my teasing tonight!!)
:laugh: :laugh:
:-*
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Hmmmm......too bad Jess. I really think I voted for Roland's. Don't ya'll recall me voting for the second one??
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You two are such worriers. I'm thankful for every participant no matter which photo you prefered.
today we check out the progress on previously posted pics
remember this flox? (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-04.jpg)
well 3 days later it looked like this:(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-04.jpg)
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Hmmmm......too bad Jess. I really think I voted for Roland's. Don't ya'll recall me voting for the second one??
I remember that! Yes!!
:laugh: :laugh:
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This is the best detail I can muster for the yarrow
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-07.jpg)
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Roland,
I envy your "garden variety" daylilies. We have a summer house in Michigan and a few years ago had most of the front yard planted with daylilies. The first summer it was awesome -- daylilies everywhere. Then word apparently got out among the deer population.... We've since learned that daylilies are "candy" to deer.
We spent the 4th in Michigan, and I'm sad to report that no more than six of the daylilies have blooms. But that's six more than last year (when we had zero).
Obviously, deer are not a problem in your neighborhood. :)
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Living near the centre of the largest city in Canada, surrounded by (subburbs, really) at least 3 of the next 20 largest cities of the country, ... no we don't see ANY deer or bears walking these streets - We have wild skunks and raccoons and a plethora of squirrels (and mice and cats), but nothing larger.
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Same Yarrow I posted a little over a week ago, but they're looking fuller (and the close-up picture I took - posting it tomorrow - actually goves some detail).
Not to worry, Jocelyn - I'm pretty sure this is a native weed plant.
I think you're right Roland. I've heard of yarrow but never seen it growing here.
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posted this pink flox one earlier (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-06.jpg)
here's an update, 5 days later:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-05.jpg)
I think there's one growin in the front yard too! :o
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Bryan an I have been doin some
escavating rejuvenating of some of the flowerbeds. - Here's the work in progress.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-11.jpg)
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This was posted earlier this morning in the Studs 'n Spurs Bar & Grill, but I suspect not all ya go there.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-10.jpg)
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Photos were taken last evening
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-12.jpg)
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There may be soemnew lilies or daylilies out soon, but right now I'm down to just a couple a 'revisit' images.
The bee balm, close up
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-08.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-10.jpg)
One question, Roland: are the trenches next to the border for purposes of better irrigation? Or maybe just to hold the border in place once the rocks (gravel?) go in? Or are the black rocks purely decorative? Just wondering....
Well, I guess I have another question: what maintenance is involved with the daylilies once they've bloomed? Do you pull off the dead flowerhead? Also, do you remove the center stem once it's turned brown or do you have to wait for it to fall off by itself?
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One question, Roland: are the trenches next to the border for purposes of better irrigation? Or maybe just to hold the border in place once the rocks (gravel?) go in? Or are the black rocks purely decorative? Just wondering....
Well, I guess I have another question: what maintenance is involved with the daylilies once they've bloomed? Do you pull off the dead flowerhead? Also, do you remove the center stem once it's turned brown or do you have to wait for it to fall off by itself?
The trenches, in my opinion, are both decorative and useful in that they (hopefully) keep grass out of the flowerbeds - we'll just have to see ...
Yes I deadhead the flowers from the iris, the tulips, the lilies and the daylilies, but I usually (not necesarily always) wait until the stems are dry before pulling em out.
Speaking of daylilies, a couple a very lovely new variety a daylilies blossomed today. They're of the same quality as the peach daylily from earlier this week, with the exception that they've blossomed in previous years & these will produce weeks of blossoms.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-01.jpg)
Both this and the next daylilly pictures are shown (unblossomed) at the end of the unfinished flowerbed in the previous picture! :)
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Thanks, Roland, for the gardening advice. :)
The yellow lilies are beautiful.
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and now for the second 'new' daylily du jour:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-02.jpg)
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took this lily area picture when it was cloudy a couple a days ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-04-01.jpg)
----------------------------- tiger lilies -------------------yellow ones ------------------------red ones -----------------------pale yellow ones ------
the peach lilies & the orange lilies are elsewhere in the front yard
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and now for the second 'new' daylily du jour:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-02.jpg)
OOOooooooo! :)
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Yesterday's view of the cream or peach(?) lilies. See, they're just outa the picture a the main lily display:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-05.jpg)
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Pretty soon this is all that's gonna be adoenin my yard, but I'm impressed by the size a this one this early. Whereas most a my sunflower blooms are 6 to 8 inches across, this one's near a foot wide AND at over 5 foot high (last year some greo over 7 feet high!)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-03.jpg)
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now THAT says good morning!
:) :)
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oh....WOW !!!! :) Roland. Love those BIG sunflowers :)
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You are for sure gonna be the sunny side of the street now.
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See you still managed to show the Yucca in there...yeehaw
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Thanks y'all fer the lov'ly comments
Got a question a my own now ... These faux 'black-eyed susans' are annuals (they reseed themselved year after year -3 years running).
My question is ... if they're all the same annual 'black-eyed susans', why are the flowers closer to the house (on the left) pretty well clear of the black markings whereas the further we get from the house (the further to the right), the more black markings there are on the petals? Hunh? ..... Drainage? Shading? Luck a the draw, seeding wise?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-04.jpg)
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is there a botanist citizen in Bettermost ? :)
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They only last a day (the daylilies). Yesterday I had two of each, today they're intertwined.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-08.jpg)
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So Roland dear? Are you gonna mention that I tipped the vote into your box. Made you the winner...? No thanks are necessary. ::)
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So Roland dear? Are you gonna mention that I tipped the vote into your box. Made you the winner...? No thanks are necessary. ::)
I think it was Kelda who voted sight unseen from work who was the 3rd to vote and therefore 'tipped the scale in my favour'.
Went back ta check & you're right - you did vote last & tipped it all in my favour. But whomever voted first or last, or whichever picture y'all voted for, doesn't matter ... I'm just glad y'all expressed an opinion, is all.
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-09.jpg)
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Most recent show of the orange lilies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-06-06.jpg)
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Co-worker gave me some shasta daisies (cause I gave her another plant or two) even though I already had em. Planted em in the black tulip/new lily flowerbed & they're comin out real large (compared ta mine - from the main flowerbed) Not many of em, but I put my hand under em to show the size
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-12.jpg)
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:) (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/fl19.gif)
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Ahh - Shasta found me a daisie - thanks!
Been delaying posting this new white lily, thinking that the black one would be opening up at the same time - still waiting on em ... took a picture a this (first) white lily yesterday
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-05.jpg)
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'nother view of the pink flox
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-11.jpg)
Looking more'n more like candy floss - or pink clouds
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I wanna see the BLACK LILY!!
BLACK LILY!! BLACK LILY!! BLACK LILY!! BLACK LILY!!
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Jess, they ain't opened up yet! - took this 'in progress' picture this mornin ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-08-01.jpg)
I'm hopin fer at least one a em ta open by tomorrow. I'm pretty sure there'll be more whites soon, and the real 'Black-Eyed Susans' are gettin ready ta open up soon too ...
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wanna see the black lily....
:( :(
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the white one is pretty but it will be GONE before the black one opens up! >:(
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Ah c'mon Jess
You've seen the tiger lilies ----- the bright yellow lilies ----- the red lilies ----- the peach lilies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-02.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-03.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-30-04.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-01-03.jpg)
the pale yellow lilies ----- the orange lilies ----- the white lilies ----- the turks cap tiger lilies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-02-05.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-27-01.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-05.jpg) (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-22-avatar.jpg)
Heck I've even posted the trumpet lily (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-24-06.jpg) and at least 5 varieties a daylilies!
WHADAYAWANT?!?!!!!
I know, I know ... ya want the black lily ...
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or more of mine!
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the white one is pretty but it will be GONE before the black one opens up! >:(
Lilies last 3 or 4 days (unlike the daylilies) and besides - look at the picture - there's more a the white ones just about ready ta bloom!
Problem is (and I didn't expect this) the black ones are much taller plants than the white lilies. :-\
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Hey! Even if I do say so myself (and it took me the better part a half an hour ta do it) but that display a 9 dif'rent lilies (3 or 4 posts ago) is pretty impressive, ain't it?!
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Hey! Even if I do say so myself (and it took me the better part a half an hour ta do it) but that display a 9 dif'rent lilies (3 or 4 posts ago) is pretty impressive, ain't it?!
indeed! I am gonna try to figure out how you put them side by side like that!
and when you put them all together you can really see how good your pics are...they are better than the ones in the catalogue you have!
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I'm runnin outta new stuff - postin em 5 (or more) times a day ...
Here's a promise of a flower that should be bloomin today (took this picture yesterday)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-08-02.jpg)
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I've been out there this mornin and I got nothin (much) fer ya ... just more a the same
except, been workin on that bed yesterday - startin ta shape up!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-01.jpg)
Still needs some ajustin, but ya can see where I'm goin with it, don'tcha?
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yes I do! I like these pics like this....so we can see the progress..
I like those leaves at the 'front' of the bed...with the stripes!
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yes I do! I like these pics like this....so we can see the progress..
I like those leaves at the 'front' of the bed...with the stripes!
I'm not sure THOSE stripes are a sign a health on that plant ...
So it's stripes ya wanna see - Well
Don't think I've featured the variegated grass before. Bryan was suppose ta spend some time trimmin em yesterday, so I guess it's a good idea ta snap a shot (or two) of them before Bryan turns em into a pretty little box.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-02.jpg)
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Close-up
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-03.jpg)
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You are not only giving us a lesson in how to garden, but in how to
post pictures as well.. Multi talented sir.
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You are not only giving us a lesson in how to garden, but in how to
post pictures as well.. Multi talented sir.
(http://www.smilie-harvester.de/smilies/Alltag/schaukelstuhl.gif) Thank you Janice.
I AM proud a the little collage on reply #634 :D
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This bloom was taken from a dif'rent plant on the other side a the front yard, but I think it's the same 'variety' as the one near the yellow daylilies!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-06.jpg)
Again, the camera's putting red there that the eye doesn't see :-\
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Scraping the barrel here ... took some pictures this morning and again this evening, but I'm gonna try again tomorrow, see if the lighting's better.
Here's a picture I took a couple a days ago ... a close up of a tiny plant (int'restin leaves) and really small flowers ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-10.jpg)
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Scraping the barrel here ... took some pictures this morning and again this evening, but I'm gonna try again tomorrow, see if the lighting's better.
Here's a picture I took a couple a days ago ... a close up of a tiny plant (int'restin leaves) and really small flowers ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-07-10.jpg)
:) :)
you are so sweet.
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The peach coloured lilies are in full show mode:
Took this picture yesterday mornin ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-04.jpg)
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I know, I know! It looks more like wine red than black, but I've been complaining about the effect of the camera for months - everything always seems to come off more red than what the eye can see. but this is it - my (supposedly) black lilies!
Sorry to disappoint ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-01.jpg)
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Now this the same selection a lilies as the last picture. I ask you, does it still look like red wine colour or black? Hunh?
Well to me they're black lilies!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-02.jpg)
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looking like a field of lilies (the red ones)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-03.jpg)
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I know, I know! It looks more like wine red than black, but I've been complaining about the effect of the camera for months - everything always seems to come off more red than what the eye can see. but this is it - my (supposedly) black lilies!
Sorry to disappoint ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-01.jpg)
this picture makes me want to touch the petals...looks so smooth and cool..
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lilies of the fields (part deux - the tiger variety)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-04.jpg)
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A couple a days ago, I took some 'bad-lighting' shots the first one I wanna share is a followup a this one: (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-08-02.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-05.jpg)
(so you can place yourself in the garden, on the left are the soon-to-bloom Black Lilies, and on the right, the seed pods of the Maltese Cross)
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Seems that was not such a bad picture after all ... here's yesterday's shot a those (unnamed) blue flowers
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-07.jpg)
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Took a couple more pics a the bee balm 2 days ago, cause they're lookin fuller than a week ago:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-06.jpg)
They remind me a that glasses-wearin-intellectual chicken in "ChickenRun" - the movie.
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Here's a pretty little flower growing on a very weedy plant. Believe it's called wandering jew
Flower's only half the size a the pinky's fingernail (you shoulda seen me laying down on the ground trying ta get just the right picture!)
I let this plant grow wherever it wants to, however, after a month or so, it's quite an ugly plant, but there's always another one growin somewhere else.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-08.jpg)
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Seems that was not such a bad picture after all ... here's yesterday's shot a those (unnamed) blue flowers
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-07.jpg)
Very pretty. I have one plant that looks exactly like that and here it's called a balloon flower (platycodon grandiflorus). It looks interesting before it blooms, too.
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Meant to post the new lily du jour earlier, but got busy with other pics ... It's a pink tiger lily, sort of.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-01.jpg)
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oooo!!!
purty purty PUUUURRRRTYY!
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Yep, Jess. :) Gorgeous color, Sheriff.
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How about some double bloom daisy type cut flowers ta start our day off?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-10-05.jpg)
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for Jess, another view of the 'black' lilies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-03.jpg)
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Before the bulk of the peak a the blossoms were gone, I thought I's take a global view of my garden (once again).
Ths was taken yesterday morning ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-04.jpg)
Seems to be a good assortment a blooms still out there.
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part deux
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-05.jpg)
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Time to peek at the neighbour's front yard (again)
First the Jones (who always do as their neighbours) grass lovers (former pesticide lovers)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-06.jpg)
A few years ago they started putting flowers in the middle of their grass (been living there 16 years) and the cement border, behind the flowers - new this year!
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On the south side, there's tho opposite kinda person. The owner cuts the 'grass' maybe 4 times all summer. She takes care of the little area beside the stoop, and there are very common daylilies, sage and holly hocks, but mostly there are weeds in the grass, including the worse kinda weed I fight in my back yard daily - the creaping charlies - little white flowers are their manifestation, but mostly their underground networking is virtually indestructible!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-07.jpg)
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I think you just intimidated her....she knows she can't do as good as you so why try!!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
you are posting like crazy today! Thanks for the pics of 'my' lilies!
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Managed to 'post a lot' today without showing a single 'new' plant - well ...
I'm keepin some back ;D
This yellow trumpet lily (photo taken last evening) is growing in among the variegated grass on the south side a the steps. They'll have to be moved for next year, cause I believe the grass is suffocatin this plant (at the root level)
It's a little stained ... waited too long to tie it up and photograph it, but still looks nice.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-11-08.jpg)
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Close up of the bee balm
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-09-07.jpg)
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that bee balm DOES look like an alien plant! :laugh:
is pretty though!
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Lilies are great - each bloom can stay for 3 to 5 days before withering, depending on how hot it is, and you can get some 13 to 15 blooms, though most a the time, 5 is normal.
daylilies can last longer in that there are more blooms. The more common varieties produce petals that are nearly as narrow as lilies, but I've found that most a the daylilies I've gotted from Bill have been larger than the average lily. Now today's golden daylily was HUGE. Gotta have been twice the size a the larger daylilies I've posted so far. We're talking 7 to 8 inches across - think sunflower size.
and there are a dozen blooms yet to open on this plant! (photo was taken during evening - cloudy light)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-12-01.jpg)
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It may look to be considerably larger than the other yellow daylily, but, I compared the two today, and the other one seems exactly the same as this massively large daylily. Here's another view of the gigantic daylily, taken from a diff'rent angle. The sky was quite amazing last night too!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-12-02.jpg)
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Are they SUPPOSED to be that big or are they just putting on a show this year?
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Are they SUPPOSED to be that big or are they just putting on a show this year?
Bill's plants have always been amazingly large, but THAT daylily caught me off guard!
Here's another daylily that's probably from Bill. Garden variety in looks, with the added Bill size largeness + it's showing extra petals (making it a double bloom dailily). Nothing's gonna amaze me as much as the yellow daylily I posted yesterday, but it's still quite noticeable:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-12-04.jpg)
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I like the colors in that one! very cool. I have never seen a daylily like that..
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I like the colors in that one! very cool. I have never seen a daylily like that..
Well this one's so common, I pulled them out of the front yard (besides, one a my neighbours have em too). There are so many in my yard, I must have near 200 blooms of it (the one inthe front were meved to 3 areas in the back, plus, the main back area had new shoots coming through the grass - transplanted em too)
Still, Bryan doesn't consider THESE to the the most common daylilies (will be posting those later today). Here's a repost, dated July 13 (better picture, I think) of this common daylily.
this is the previous post (June 26) a this daylily: (http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-06-26-05.jpg) - humm, mabe that first picture was better ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-13-03.jpg)
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Here's the other supposedly common daylily that just started bloomon yesterday:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-13-02.jpg)
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Showing 3 varieties of daylilies: at the bottom of the picture, you can identify a red variety and a burgundy(?) variery, and at the top, a very large yellow variety.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-04.jpg)
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Nice!
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Bryan had me take some pictures a him today ... some a em were good (like this one), some were bad (recycling bin'ed em), and some were funny! (one two Bryan objects to my posting) - too bad for him,cause i'm sharing .
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-05.jpg)
See - It's a big daylily - almost as big as Bryan's head.
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goodness! that is a BIG ol lily!! and a cute fellow!
Hi Bryan!!!
*Jess blows kisses*
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now .... a desktop type a picture a Bryan (he wanted me to trashcan this one)
"You hate me", said Bryan as I posted this picture ... Just wait & see the other ones ta come (he he he)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-02.jpg)
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aw..it is not so bad!! :laugh:
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Of course it's not so bad - THIS is the bad one (well one a em! - he he he)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-01.jpg)
Blame it on the photographer!
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:-X :-X ;) :laugh:
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Now this one Bryan approved of - He likes it, calls it his grass skirt picture
but wait there's more than meets the eye to this picture
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-06.jpg)
explanation: Bryan removed another bunch a iris plants from the front yard (about 40 this time) So far, over 150 have been removed from the front yard. They were all clumped together!
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Bryan isn't wearing no britches!! and that 'grass skirt' don't look like it goes all the way around!!! :o :o
ps...
(that's a lotta irises!!)
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Here's a close up of the funny part a that last picture. I call it 'Bryan's chin'
He says he's gonna be posting some unflattering pics a me in retaliation!!!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-14-07.jpg)
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I was fixin to say "How? he canceled his account" then I remembered he came back...but don't worry! if he DOES post anything ....you can DELETE it!! ;D ;)
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A while back I posted sme tall yellow flowers that Janice identified as a variety a chrisatimum ... was saying that I thought I had two varieties a em ... well
It's the other yellow faux - or annual black-eyed susan that has two varieties. In this picture you'll find the simple variety at the top and a double bloom variery at the bottom a the picture.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-12-03.jpg)
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I used to hve Green eyed Susans, but the deer ate them. The deer are as bad as the dog and my 7th grade homework.
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I like ALL the double flowers...and I like those 'daisies' that have the red in the middle!
(and the deer ate up ALL my peas...and they are trying to break open my melons!!!)
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two daylilies growing in each other's bush
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-13-01.jpg)
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Close up a one a those two daylilies
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-13-05.jpg)
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are the petals smooth or fuzzy? some of the pictures look one way to me and others look the other way!
(either way I wouldn't be able to resist stroking them!
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I don't know :-\ I went out there to find out & ... both and neither. They're a little more fuzzy than regular petals, but still feel like petals - maybe a little bit a cardboard feel to em too.
The other one:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-13-06.jpg)
You can see on this picture that there are a lot more blooms to come.
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you have a TON still coming! that is just amazing. your yard doesn't look big enough to have this many flowers in it ....let alone so many DIFFERENT ones..
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'you've got a TON still coming' Many of the iris plants did not produce blooms this year - mostly, I think, because they were too close together. That's one a the reasons that Bryan FINALLY agreed that they needed to be removed (garden magazine says they should be seperated every 4 years - these haven't been moved in 7 or 8 years!) Got a few more varieties a lilies & daylilies to bloom, but, like I said a few days ago, the garden's gonna get into a slow comf'table 'yellow' period, where black-eyed susans, sunflowers and assorted annuals are gonna be practically the only thing happening. That and the tomatoes and cucumbers ;D
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I mean there are still a LOT of buds. They don't each have to be different varieties...they are beautiful!
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This dry area is doing relatively well this year (again) since I put in the shoefly (last year) and the sunflowers (this year). Will continue to grow and produce some colour throughout the summer.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-01.jpg)
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Oops ... meant to post (yet another) close-up of the shoefly yesterday ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-02.jpg)
Best one yet, I think!
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OH! Look at the colors....so pretty with the dark in the middle!
what a nice pic to start the morning off!
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Mentioned a while back about the wasp nest in the lilac tree. Took this picture a couple a days ago. When Bryan was here on Saturday, he was the first one to notice it ... he tried to take it down, thinking that, in the rain, it was possibly a good time to do so ... came back in looking a little frazelled, advising me that the wasps were in a bad mood! ----- ya think?!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-05.jpg)
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Nother yellow daylily opened up a couple a days ago - here are the first blooms a this rather ordinary yellow (but pretty) daylily
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-04.jpg)
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Mentioned a while back about the wasp nest in the lilac tree. Took this picture a couple a days ago. When Bryan was here on Saturday, he was the first one to notice it ... he tried to take it down, thinking that, in the rain, it was possibly a good time to do so ... came back in looking a little frazelled, advising me that the wasps were in a bad mood! ----- ya think?!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-05.jpg)
oh my lort night a living!!!
:o :o
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HA! The chrysanthemum WERE a mixture a simple & double bloom - both on the same bush! - heck they coexist on the same stem!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-06.jpg)
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Seems like the best of the season's passed already - here's a picture a the daylilies + taken 3 days ago. There was nothing new to photograph today, but I still have a few in reserve - like this one.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-03.jpg)
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Weeds have been producing flowers too. Never seen this little one before:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-06.jpg)
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dang, even your WEEDS are pretty... :P
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You think So? - Here's another ... (I really don't remember where I took this picture ...)
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Weeds have been producing flowers too. Never seen this little one before:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-06.jpg)
That almost looks like a blue bonnet.
It's pretty.
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Got two more 'weed' pics on file ... might as well make it 'Weed Thursday'
This one's actually got a name - and a pretty one at that. It's called Queen Ann's Lace - looks like a doillie
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-07.jpg)
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Man, you have BEAUTIFUL weeds and flowers , Sheriff :) ...keep them weed pictures coming :)
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Last weed from the garden - Actually this is some kinda ground cover. Hadn't noticed it in the back yard before - it covers a little more'n a square foot in a mostly shady area (and of course, this is an extreme close-up)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-19-02.jpg)
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Don't know if there's anything new to photograph out there, but I've only got 2 o 3 pics left in reserve ... like this one, a giant (well at the time we gor em, we had never had tall lilies like that) pale yellow spotted lilies (they're a little like turks caps in that they produce pods along the stem and face downwards and tjhe petals do curve back some.) Photo was taken 3 days ago.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-01.jpg)
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Got a lovely (though small) surprise 3 days ago - my hostas are flowering!!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-03.jpg)
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Same hostas. yesterday - (they're openin up)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-19-03.jpg)
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The back yard's been a pretty good show lately, even though there's a lotta yellow. with the chrisanthemum and this group a daylily. (photo taken 4 days ago)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-02.jpg)
Actually the front's putting up a decent show too, with daililies dominating (and providing a more varied array of colours.)
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Here's another lily that made an appearance just before I left Toronto for Alberta. A starburst lily
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-19-01.jpg)
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Hey neighbor, it is so nice to remember what they look like. I have them at home but the deer never let me see them.
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AWESOME Starburst Lily...Sheriff :) I have never seen one growing in a flower bed in a person's yard. Hope you are having a WONDERFUL time with the other Brokies in Alberta :)
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A while back I posted some garlic pics - well they're turning ta seed, and this it what they look like these days:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-05.jpg)
Awright - that's the last a my garden pics taken before my departure. Unless there's somethin unusual happenin in the yard, this thread's about ta become a retrospective a my Pilgramage - pics & all.
See y'all when I get back to TO.
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;D
flowers or retrospective....either way....I look forward to it!
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Got back after midnight this mornin - Fell asleep only after 3:30 AM !!
Went out about an hour ago ta see what the garden's produced in the past 10 days (a few small cucumbers, no red tomatoes! :( )
And took just 4 pics. Here's the first a these ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-31-01.jpg)
They're our (giant) yellow turks caps
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Good to see you made it back safe and sound. Good to see the garden is still doing great, even in your absence. Look forward to those photos from the trip...Welcome home friend.
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A while back I posted some garlic pics - well they're turning ta seed, and this it what they look like these days:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-17-05.jpg)
Awright - that's the last a my garden pics taken before my departure. Unless there's somethin unusual happenin in the yard, this thread's about ta become a retrospective a my Pilgramage - pics & all.
See y'all when I get back to TO.
You learn somerthing new every day - I never knew that was how garlic grew... I guess I though it was a root of some sort.
Didi you have a great time in Alberta?
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Said earlier that Yellow was dominating the yard - specially the back yard - here' a picture taken this mornin of the chrysanthemum
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-31-02.jpg)
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One 'new' flower opened up while I was gone - this white starburst lily
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-31-03.jpg)
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Awright - this is the last a the 'new' pics I took yesterday. The morning glory are now reaching the main floor's bathroom window - Sweet!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-31-04.jpg)
Next up, my Alberta photos - (well why not - they's a part a my great white north too!)
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love the morning glories!
Looking forward to all the Alberta pics!
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You learn somerthing new every day - I never knew that was how garlic grew... I guess I though it was a root of some sort.
Didi you have a great time in Alberta?
Sorry about this Kelda. I was just out watering the plants & I thought a the fact that I'd yet to comment on yours ...
People eat mostly garlic cloves - the root, but when the plant is growing the leaves are quite stong tasting and there are certain 'fine dining' recipes that call for garlic seeds. New plants grown from seed take a few years before their root (cloves) are large (numerous?) enough for eating in the way that most folks are use to. My wild cloves never grow very large anyways! - but I do have hunderds of em.
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OK - took about 20 pics on day 1 from in front a our first lodging. We were surrounded by mountains on virtually all sides (though I didn't take any a the ones behind the condo). Got up early, wanting to get the sunlight reaching the mountains - was surprised to find that clouds would block some light in a horizontal fashion.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-02.jpg)
Headlights still turned on on the passing vehicle.
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Howdy Sherriff! Glad to see you made it home okay, it was such a pleasure meeting you and hearing your thought on things. You are a great guy. If you ever decide to cross the line, let me know.
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Sure enough Tru - It was great meeting you, that's for sure!
Now let's look at the 'Three Sisters' - again, early in the mornin.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-03.jpg)
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You know I never did hear what their names were.
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You know I never did hear what their names were.
Don't think each peak has an individual name - the three together are simply called the 'Three Sisters'
This pic, a little further to the right (maybe with a bit more of a close up) shows some int'restin detail.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-05.jpg)
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Looking south, to the left of the Three Sisters ... the sun's begining to hit the top of the peaks
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-06.jpg)
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You take GREAT photos, Roland. Sorry about your camera. :-\
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Thanks Elle - had only taken close ups until then, having purchased the camera only 6 months earlier. (the Northern Ontario shots had been taken with Bryan's camera.)
A closer look at the same view as the previous shot shows horizontal light.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-07.jpg)
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Seems like the best of the season's passed already - here's a picture a the daylilies + taken 3 days ago. There was nothing new to photograph today, but I still have a few in reserve - like this one.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-07-15-03.jpg)
I love this color mix. Flower photography is among my favorite!
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Thanks Elle - had only taken close ups until then, having purchased the camera only 6 months earlier. (the Northern Ontario shots had been taken with Bryan's camera.)
A closer look at the same view as the previous shot shows horizontal light.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-07.jpg)
I like the clouds in this one Roland. nice colors!
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Tried for a close up - west end.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-08.jpg)
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Hadn't posted an image in mor'n 24 hours, so ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-09.jpg)
Yea, my reaction was 'Ooo, Ahhh' too.
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it makes me go OOO and AWWW!! too. but it also makes me feel like I am there. You have a good way of capturing atmosphere, Roland. I don't know how to explain it....I just get a lot of feeling from some of your pictures.
This one makes me feel...alone? Wanting? anticipatory...like I am waiting for something or waiting to go somewhere...what is over the next ridge? the next curve..
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Gorgeous!!!!!
I think you need to come help me cultivate my garden!!!
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Thanks Jess
Kelda, I ain't goin across the pond to do no gardenin ;D
last a the uploaded pics from that first mornin in Canmore - lots more to come ... zooming in on the Three Sisters
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-10.jpg)
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As the light started piercing between the clouds, the show got more vivid!
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-11.jpg)
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that last photo looks so perfect youd think it was doctored.
:-*
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Believe that this is one a the Three Sisters
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-12.jpg)
I have been postin em in the order that they were photographed.
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-14.jpg)
this is cool...
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-15.jpg)
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Is that one of the places you stayed at? It looks nice!
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Is that one of the places you stayed at? It looks nice!
Yup. That's the main office a the condo wher we spent the first 5 or 6 days.
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it looks cool and fresh out there....I can almost smell the pine trees..oh wait that may be the ones outside here.. :P :laugh: ;)
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I think this was the view from our stoop
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-19.jpg)
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Ah tha brings back some memories, like that cheese cake mess I mised up in your kitchen and we never touched. (Probably a good thing).
:P
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-20.jpg)
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Thanks Jess
Kelda, I ain't goin across the pond to do no gardenin ;D
last a the uploaded pics from that first mornin in Canmore - lots more to come ... zooming in on the Three Sisters
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-10.jpg)
What a spectacular picture Roland. simply breathtaking.
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OMG!!!
Sheriff, you as good with the camera as you are with the garden!
Those pictures are breathtakingly beautiful!
Man,I bet in real life it was hard to process alllt hat beauty.
For me, things like this are proof that God loves us. He could have made the world flat and grey! LOL
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Wow Roland! Your photos are awesome (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/photosmile.gif)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-30.jpg)
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I want to go to Alberta....
maybe next year.
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Here are some flowers from my Garden!
1) Magnolia
2) Oleander
3 and 4) Crepe Myrtle
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don't have any a those growing 'round here, I think, Lee.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-34.jpg)
Last of the pics I set up in photobucket before I set out on this trip up north.
Be posting more (of the first full day in Alberta) after the 14th - When I get back home.
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last of my pics from outside the lodge/condo
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-37.jpg)
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Hey, you French Canadian guy!! Where are you??
I haven't seen you in two days!!
I am having Roland withdrawal here!
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Woooooooooowwwww, Those are awesome Roland, I wish I'd got up and gone with you.
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Hey Tru, these 30 odd pics were taken on that first morning, all a em outside our lodge, between 6 and 8 am (as I recall).
Next bunch a pictures will reflect a diff'rent seting, and a diff'rent day.
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But before that - here's a couple a pictures a my view during the brunch we all had that first day
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-38.jpg)
First the view of the outdoors, from inside
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Same view, diff'rent lighting, taken moments later
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-22-39.jpg)
From left to right ... Truman, Mouk, Meryl and Rayn
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oh cool!! this way we see both the outside view and the people!! Hi GUYS!!
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Actually, on DAY 2 I did take a few pics from in front of the lodge before moving on:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-01.jpg)
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I remember you taking those pictures, for the inside exposure and the outside. Man, I look like a deer in the headlights.
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I remember you taking those pictures, for the inside exposure and the outside. Man, I look like a deer in the headlights.
Looks pretty natural ta me. I thought you looked good in that picture
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-02.jpg)
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merci! I liked this one of you:
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Oh yea. my 'yoddle picture'!! ;D
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-03.jpg)
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OK - here's my forst off site (away from the lodge) scenic picture. Lee took me to the area the closet postcard was taken.
First of a dozen
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I remember you taking those pictures, for the inside exposure and the outside. Man, I look like a deer in the headlights.
Oh no you don't!
You look good! ;D
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It got to a point when we thought (I think it was John who articulated it) that there was just too much sameness in all this grandure
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It was an incredible sight to wake up to every morning, no other place we stayed was quite as dramatic.
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A Meal at the Monastery
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Not really, we was just lookin at the menu (and thought no one said anything, those were rather expensive brunch prices!)
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Hey! There's Lee!
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Experimenting with light
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Three diff'rent exposures a the same scene taday ...
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second of 3
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third a 3
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Hey Roland, have you ever loked on Google Earth at some of the places we visited? I was checking it out last night and may contribute some of my photos to the sites. They also link up with wikipedia to give an overview of the towns, Ft. Macleod is mentioned as one of the filming sites for Brokeback--and also the birthplace of Joni Mitchell!
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Hey Roland, have you ever loked on Google Earth at some of the places we visited? I was checking it out last night and may contribute some of my photos to the sites. They also link up with wikipedia to give an overview of the towns, Ft. Macleod is mentioned as one of the filming sites for Brokeback--and also the birthplace of Joni Mitchell!
To the best a my knowledge, Joni's a product a Saskatchewan, not Alberta. Somebody got somethin wrong!
Not sure WHAT google earth's all about ... :-\
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Well wikipedia is not the most reliable source of information in the world.
Here is google earth, it offers satilite images of the globe, some areas better resolution than others.
http://earth4download.com/g/us/?gclid=CNvd-aG0h44CFTyKOAodwlf8EA
If you can get the google earth with out the google pack you'd be better off. Most of that crap I don;t use. :o
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Wonderful cloud formation - only available in mountainous regions (Lee tells me they're common in Colorado)
Photo taken from inside Starbuck's in Canmore
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Three diff'rent exposures a the same scene taday ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-14.jpg)
I love this pic. very cool.
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Fist picture taken on the way to the 'Ennis-pouting-on-the-hill' scene (still on day 2)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-20.jpg)
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"Ennis pouting on a hill"?? Haven't heard it described quite that way before!
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"Ennis pouting on a hill"?? Haven't heard it described quite that way before!
Couldn't remember the common way of calling it so I named it diff'rently
Got my point accross, though, didn't I?
Second picture a two. Couldn't fit in one - too wide ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-21.jpg)
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Okay Sherriff I am told today that Joni Mitchell was raise in Saskatchewan, but was born in Ft. MacLeod, Alberta. You think maybe?
"I could drink a case of you, darling,
and still be on my feet..."
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Couldn't remember the common way of calling it so I named it diff'rently
Got my point accross, though, didn't I?
Second picture a two. Couldn't fit in one - too wide ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-21.jpg)
I thought it was cute!
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Okay Sherriff I am told today that Joni Mitchell was raise in Saskatchewan, but was born in Ft. MacLeod, Alberta. You think maybe?
"I could drink a case of you, darling,
and still be on my feet..."
Looks like you were right - Some internet sites say she was born in Saskatchewan, but the post office, who released a stamp with her image at the same time as Gordon Lightfoot's (and Anne Murrray and Paul Anka), states that she was bornin Fort Mcleod (yep, that's how they spelled it on that site), but her childhood recollections are (and she is usually reffered to as a product) of the rolling hills of Saskatchewan, thus the confussion.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-22.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-24.jpg)
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I seem to have been neglecting this thread lately ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-25.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-26.jpg)
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Awright - here we are at my first film site, the 'happy tustle' hill, wereEnnis gets his blood on both shirts in order to create the tallisman
Now if only we could figure out the right spot ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-27.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-28.jpg)
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HEY!
*Jess looks around*
Where is our Aug 27 pics???? or al LEAST pic!!
HUNH?????
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-29.jpg)
Is this really the spot?
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that looks like the hill where they got in the fight and got blood on the shirts!!
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Phillip & John ain't so big in THIS picture, hunh?
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-30.jpg)
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Ok
Been more'n a week since my last post.
Time to reload - still on day 2, still on from 'Ennis poutting hill'
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-31.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-32.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-33.jpg)
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Now, finally (but still from day 2) pictures from the second tent location/FSIT/naked warshing a clothes by the stream.
Had a hell of a time 'seeing' the tent location, but the stream seemed obvious
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-34.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-35.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-36.jpg)
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Looking for the tent location ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-37.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-38.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-39.jpg)
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Then I went across the creek to see if I could get THE shot. Came close, I thought
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-40.jpg)
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Then I went across the creek to see if I could get THE shot. Came close, I thought
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-40.jpg)
yep I can almost see the tent...love that angle..thank you.
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Bit more of a close up, and without the pilgrims. Again, from the other side a the creek.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-41.jpg)
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Alberta/07-07-23-42.jpg)
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Friend, you have a wonderful day, I know you got your stuff cut out for you.
;) ;D
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yep, he just quit. didn't finish posting his Alberta pictures...didn't even post the little yellow birds pictures...
just quit on us...
:( :(
;)
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Hey Roland, Lynne thought you might like to have this detailed shot of my pajamas:
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Hummmm, BetterMost Buns?
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Hummmm, BetterMost Buns?
Qui, baby!
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Hey Roland, Lynne thought you might like to have this detailed shot of my pajamas:
Notice here the photographer creating an aesthectic masterpiece using only a simple digital camera - the slightly cocky angle, the perspective, spot-on perfect, capture the subject's anonymous model's quirky personality. ::) ;)
Just think what somebody could do with a zoom lens or some filters and more than a one-shot deal!! :o :o ::) ::) :D
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All the beautiful pics of the mountains and location shots are simply awesome. Way cool. Oh and the butt pic is cute too. :D
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the slightly cocky angle,
Wouldn't that angle have been in the front! :laugh: :laugh:
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Wouldn't that angle have been in the front! :laugh: :laugh:
Boy have you changed over the last few months...LOL You used to be a shy one,,,,,
At least on the surface... ;D
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Awright - took me some major break fromposting on this thread ... but Bryan wanted to take some 'fall pictures' of the back yard, and that got me takin a few pictures (including yet another desktop worthy image - you' recognise it when you see it!)
Also took a few pics a Bryan & he took some fun ones a me - Will post those in the "Talsty pics a Roland" in the Anything Goes Forum! ;D
Awright he's today's pic - 'bout 7 + feet tall and not too large sunflowers.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-01.jpg)
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Awright - took me some major break fromposting on this thread ... but Bryan wanted to take some 'fall pictures' of the back yard, and that got me takin a few pictures (including yet another desktop worthy image - you' recognise it when you see it!)
Also took a few pics a Bryan & he took some fun ones a me - Will post those in the "Talsty pics a Roland" in the Anything Goes Forum! ;D
Awright he's today's pic - 'bout 7 + feet tall and not too large sunflowers.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-01.jpg)
very nice sunflowers! especially this close to freezing weather.
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Fall front yard - needs mowing ....
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-05.jpg)
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no punkins??
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no punkins??
NO! I didn't try to grow any pumpkins - and if it is put out, it'll be just for the one night. Vandalism of innocent pumpkins have been a part of my past experiences (mostly on THE night)
Anywho... here's the left side of the front yard - looking as expected for late October, unkemp and near frozen over (it's suppose to freeze out there tonight.)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-03.jpg)
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jeez....even your dead and dying plants have a bit of color...
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jeez....even your dead and dying plants have a bit of color...
You just wait until I post tomorrow's pic - I tell you it's desktop worthy!
In the meantime here's the right side of the front yard
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-04.jpg)
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So ... Here it is .... an autumn picture taken from my front yard (next to the stoop) that I think is Desktop worthy. Been on my desktop since Saturday
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-02.jpg)
The red leaves are from the english primrose (yellow flowers, way back in July),and the green ones in the foreground are from lillies of the valley.
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What?!?! no comment about that lovely picture I posted yesterday?!!?
Anyways - now for the critter picture I was talking about - my resident racoon - seems like he's refusing to leave the garage.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-06.jpg)
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What?!?! no comment about that lovely picture I posted yesterday?!!?
Anyways - now for the critter picture I was talking about - my resident racoon - seems like he's refusing to leave the garage.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-06.jpg)
Awww Roland, he's so sweet!!!! Do racoons like to make their home in your roof like our possums do? (By the way, our possums are nothing like your possums - ours are very cute and pretty.)
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So ... Here it is .... an autumn picture taken from my front yard (next to the stoop) that I think is Desktop worthy. Been on my desktop since Saturday
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-02.jpg)
The red leaves are from the english primrose (yellow flowers, way back in July),and the green ones in the foreground are from lillies of the valley.
OOOOOOO!! Roland Are you gonna send me this so I can use it?? how pretty and autumny!
You remember you sent me those two pics last summer?
Please?
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Here's a shameless bump for this thread, posting a picture taked back in early December
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/07-12-02-01.jpg)
reminiscent of another picture I posted last spring
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Here's a shameless bump for this thread, posting a picture taked back in early December
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/07-12-02-01.jpg)
reminiscent of another picture I posted last spring
I love that pic Sheriff!
What a great view you have from your front door.
Also love your garage visitor. Be careful, they can get a might onery! LOL
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I love that pic Sheriff!
What a great view you have from your front door.
Also love your garage visitor. Be careful, they can get a might onery! LOL
Had you not seen that view before? I'm sure I've posted a similar picture on this thread during the summer. & in the bar & grill, I posted (a long time ago) a similar picture showing one of the last blasts of the 2006-2007 winter. I'll be digging it out of photobucket later this evening.
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Here's the picture I took on March 17the of last year (last blast of winter)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-03-17.jpg)
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and then, again a week later (March 24th)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-03-24.jpg)
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So ... Here it is .... an autumn picture taken from my front yard (next to the stoop) that I think is Desktop worthy. Been on my desktop since Saturday
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/odds%20and%20ends/memine/toronto/07-10-27-02.jpg)
The red leaves are from the english primrose (yellow flowers, way back in July),and the green ones in the foreground are from lillies of the valley.
I still have this as my screensaver!
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I still have this as my screensaver!
Me too ... lazy I guess, but for next year I'll have a few other options - for the Christmas season anyways.
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well as it gets closer to spring I am gonna load up the other one you sent me!!
;D ;D
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Had you not seen that view before? I'm sure I've posted a similar picture on this thread during the summer. & in the bar & grill, I posted (a long time ago) a similar picture showing one of the last blasts of the 2006-2007 winter. I'll be digging it out of photobucket later this evening.
All the ones I recall seeing have been facing the house and all your pretty plants!
The last blast of 2008 will behere before we know it!
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All the ones I recall seeing have been facing the house and all your pretty plants!
The last blast of 2008 will behere before we know it!
Hey Richard
If you want, I can send you a full sized version of just about any picture I took on this thread - for YOUR screen saver.
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Here's a pretty picture of Downtown Timmins - last picture I took before I left town for the big city couple a weeks ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/Noel07/07-12-28-01.jpg)
It was near 9 am and the street lights were still turned on. Think that'll make a nice screen saver next december...
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Sure will...looks like a greeting card
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Sure will...looks like a greeting card
Just what I was going to say....that is beautiful Roland...
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Just what I was going to say....that is beautiful Roland...
Ain't photoshop wonderful?
kidding
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I like it...I am sure I would like it better if I knew more about how to use the
more technical stuff...
I would love to learn how to do the stuff Milli does...that would be great...
or maybe make me Jake or Heaths gf..........hehhe
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Anything blooming up there yet? Spring is just around the corner!!
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Your kidding right?
This picture was taken just 5 days ago ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/08-03-08-02.jpg)
Seems like we are gonna break a all time record for snowfall in one winter! and very little melt in between each snow storm.
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And, 4 days ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/08-03-09-02.jpg)
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And, 4 days ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/08-03-09-02.jpg)
ok well that is like 72 hours ago....you still not ready??
It is in the high 70s here! Woooooo it's pretty!!
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And, 4 days ago
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/08-03-09-02.jpg)
WOW! Now thats some snow!!
We would be shut down for weeks!!
Hey, having a cute guy to shovel it is a bonus!! ;D
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More like 96 hours ago
And no! Today it snowed again - just a powdering. 2 days ago most of the snow melted off the roof of my garage, and I did (finally) clear a path to the sidewalk, but I don't see this snow disappearing for at least another 2 weeks. - which'll take us nearly to the end of the month. Easter's in just 10 days!
I've been living in Toronto for 28 years and have never seen this much snow in this city. ( in Timmins, yea, but not in Toronto).
Crocusus MIGHT start appearing in April - this year.
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WOW! Now thats some snow!!
We would be shut down for weeks!!
Hey, having a cute guy to shovel it is a bonus!! ;D
Yea - he is a rugged hansome man (and he wears denim as they should be worn!!). Got his wife to see BbM and she also borrowed articles on BbM and the book, but she didn't get him to see the movie with her. She lent me a season's DVD from 'Queer as Folks' (or whatever it's called).
He likes my flowers though - considers himself something of a decent photographer of wildlife and he's enjoyed takin a few snapshots of my flowers last summer.
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WOW! Now thats some snow!!
We would be shut down for weeks!!
Hey, having a cute guy to shovel it is a bonus!! ;D
Roland!!
you got a confirmation of your verdict!!
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Sheriff, are you still buried in snow??
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Oh it's finally melting
The back yard's still covered 80% in snow, the front year, 50%. It was suppost to reach 10C (50F) today and it was suppose to rain - it barely drizzled ...
They're still saying it'll reach 14C (57F) tomorrow so I should be seeing a lot more of the 'lawn' soon. Specially since I'll be home 24/7 ;D
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Oh it's finally melting
The back yard's still covered 80% in snow, the front year, 50%. It was suppost to reach 10C (50F) today and it was suppose to rain - it barely drizzled ...
They're still saying it'll reach 14C (57F) tomorrow so I should be seeing a lot more of the 'lawn' soon. Specially since I'll be home 24/7 ;D
oh lort...brag brag brag...
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10 days ago, it looked like sping would never come. We'd just had ourselves YET another snowfall covering everything. Even the streets weren't yet cleared come morning ...
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/08-03-24-01.jpg)
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I'm pleased to report that spring has finally arrived. Just a few days ago I was complaining that snow still covered 40% or the front yard and 80% of the back yard. Well there's still some snow in the back yard but there's nothing left in the front ....
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2008/08-04-03-01.jpg)
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Even the crocuses think it's spring :)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2008/08-04-03-02.jpg)
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hey!!! there was a yard under that snow!!
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so you ahve plenty of gardening to keep you going now you're retired!!! :-*
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I want to go to Alberta....
maybe next year.
How are those plans coming along there Jess? Hunh? ;D
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How are those plans coming along there Jess? Hunh? ;D
Hey Sheriff!
Can't wait to see the place in full bloom!!
Hope you are enjoying your Spring!! ;D
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Been cool!! >:(
Flowers are blooming about 2 or 3 weeks behind last year's schedule. But that's about to change - even though tomorrow's high is just 18C (64F), it's expected to rise by Friday to 32C (90F)!!
Good on the tomatoes, I guess.
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Been cool!! >:(
Flowers are blooming about 2 or 3 weeks behind last year's schedule. But that's about to change - even though tomorrow's high is just 18C (64F), it's expected to rise by Friday to 32C (90F)!!
Good on the tomatoes, I guess.
Wow! Thats hot for you guys hunh?
It's been flirting with 90 here for a few weeks. We should hit 90 or above this week. :-\
I hate the heat and humidity. We rarely have one without the other.
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Wow! Thats hot for you guys hunh?
It's been flirting with 90 here for a few weeks. We should hit 90 or above this week. :-\
I hate the heat and humidity. We rarely have one without the other.
Above 30C temperatures do happen here - usually less than a dozen times in a year. Last year I think we reached 30C something like 6 times before the end of May - and nearly 20 times by fall. This'll be our first this year (I think). We've mostly had furnace-turned-on weather this spring ...
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How are those plans coming along there Jess? Hunh? ;D
you be quiet!
;) ;)
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Got a phone call from my niece this morning. They're not saying that she's on her dying bed, but my Mom's taken a turn for the worse. Time to visit her one last time (apparently), so I've made plans to take my sister (coming in from Niagara Falls either tonight or early tomorrow) and my brother (from Toronto - who hasn't been up to Timmins since my dad's funeral 2 years ago) up with me in a rented car tomorrow.
Daniel & Claudette (siblings that live in Timmins) are thinking Mom might not last much longer than a couple a days - maybe a week.
Will no doubt be keeping y'all informed of progress through this thread.
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{{{Roland}}}
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Got a phone call from my niece this morning. They're not saying that she's on her dying bed, but my Mom's taken a turn for the worse. Time to visit her one last time (apparently), so I've made plans to take my sister (coming in from Niagara Falls either tonight or early tomorrow) and my brother (from Toronto - who hasn't been up to Timmins since my dad's funeral 2 years ago) up with me in a rented car tomorrow.
Daniel & Claudette (siblings that live in Timmins) are thinking Mom might not last much longer than a couple a days - maybe a week.
Will no doubt be keeping y'all informed of progress through this thread.
Aww Sheriff!
I'm so sorry to hear this.
Sending long distance hugs to you and lifting up prayers for you and your family!
{{{{{SHERIFF}}}}}} :-*
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Well mom's over the worse this time
She'll be weeker everythime she goes through another episode and her living will doesn't allow for 'extreme measures' to be used - next time. Even this time, had it been her regular doctor and not the weekend doctor on call making the descisions, she would not have received the antibiotics she got - won't be getting em next time - cause Daniel and Claudette, the people responsible for the decision making will be consulted next time. They've talked about it with mom and all the sibblings and all agree (even the one discenting voice has been convinced - by mom herself) that mom's ready to let nature take it's course.
As for now, she's still got diabetes problems, which causes her water restrictions (quality of life issues). She's (thankfully) lost a lot of excessive water in the past 3 days and she's now beginning to get back to eating soft food.
Her kidneys are only working on the last stage (3.5 of 4) before becoming disfuctional, and she's awfully week - doesn't feed herself.
She's talking more - able to request water (I even made her smile yesterday) and her current crissis problem (pneumonia) has decreased - her breathing is less noisy, coughing less extensive after each (every 4 hours) ventilum treatment.
Basically, what we were told is pretty accurate. This was likely a last chance to see her before she passes away. Could be in days, weeks or months, but she will have another episode and it's likely to be her last. After all, each 'episode' leaves her weaker than before, and the quality of life is already not reasonable. She's ready.
I'll be heading back home (to Toronto) on Sunday. One of my sisters - the outatowner will be staying indefinetely, thus alleviating the burden by the local sibblings (Daniel & Claudette) as they return back to their regular jobs. Also Andre will be coming in on Monday for his 'last' visit. Only Gilbert won't be making the trip up.
And that brings you up to date on events.
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{{{Roland}}}
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I'm so sorry Sheriff!
Wish I could say or do more.
{{{{{Sheriff}}}}}
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Hey, Roland.
thinking about you tonight. :-\
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{{{{{{ROLAND}}}}}}
I'm so sorry!! Send me a PM if you want to "chat". I've been through this, and I know what you are going through. I hardly ever see you anymore, but I think about you a lot. You were one of the first people to welcome me to Bettermost. In fact, I think you welcomed me in French! It meant a lot to me.
I will keep you and your family in my prayers and thoughts. :-* :-*
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I'm missin my Sheriff!! :(
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I'm missin my Sheriff!! :(
Well you can usually catch me at the other forum ...
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Well you can usually catch me at the other forum ...
Hey!!
I was just about to head that way! ;D
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I went through the flower thread from last year recently and, if my memory's correct, that was a fabulous year. This one's a dud in comparison. Seems last year, I posted something like 15 dif'rent pictures - most of em new flowers I hadn't posted before. This year ... two of the commonest lilies made a first appearance this morning.
I'm simply not motivated to post. And the other Canadians on BetterMost (other than Artiste) don't appear to be online today - for Canada's day. - Disappointing, really.
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I went through the flower thread from last year recently and, if my memory's correct, that was a fabulous year. This one's a dud in comparison. Seems last year, I posted something like 15 dif'rent pictures - most of em new flowers I hadn't posted before. This year ... two of the commonest lilies made a first appearance this morning.
I'm simply not motivated to post. And the other Canadians on BetterMost (other than Artiste) don't appear to be online today - for Canada's day. - Disappointing, really.
I know, seems like this year is turning out to be a dud all around in many ways! :-\
Well, hope you had a happy Canada Day!
I'm sure you'll be in full bloom soone enough!! :-*
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I know, seems like this year is turning out to be a dud all around in many ways! :-\
Well, hope you had a happy Canada Day!
I'm sure you'll be in full bloom soone enough!! :-*
oh he is full of something!
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oh he is full of something!
Jess! :o
I swear! LOL :laugh: :laugh:
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Jess! :o
I swear! LOL :laugh: :laugh:
what?
*Jess >>>(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/ifyoucantfixit/angel.gif)*
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A few pics from tonight's decorations.
We received less than 60 kids this year.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2008/08-10-31-03.jpg)
Tried to get it all in one picture, but the light wasn't great.
Bryan made the ghost and cut the pumpkin.
All decorations are new this year. (I've been putting up the same old year after year. Was time for a change.)
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Bryan tried for a scary face, but instead gor a scared faced pumpkin head.
The skeleton body/stand is new.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2008/08-10-31-02.jpg)
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Cheap, but cute. I half buried the skeleton in the grass and pulled out some vines and draped em on the tombstone.
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/Home%20Pics/2008/08-10-31-01.jpg)
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Hey Sheriff!
Looks great to me!
I love the Skelekton!
Sounds like you still had a good turn out.
Our neighborhood was full! We gave out alomost 5lbs of candy. Course the more beer I drank the more candy I handed out! LOL
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Hey Sheriff!
Looks great to me!
I love the Skelekton!
Sounds like you still had a good turn out.
Our neighborhood was full! We gave out alomost 5lbs of candy. Course the more beer I drank the more candy I handed out! LOL
last night we came to a house where they had been drinking....they kept putting HANDFULS in my nieces sack..."Here is one for your pretty costume" here is one for being so sweet" "here is one because you are beautiful!"
::) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
she could barely carry it and we quit pretty soon afterwards...
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last night we came to a house where they had been drinking....they kept putting HANDFULS in my nieces sack..."Here is one for your pretty costume" here is one for being so sweet" "here is one because you are beautiful!"
::) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
she could barely carry it and we quit pretty soon afterwards...
Goota love drunks handin out candy! LOL
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You ever try to grow roses?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html)
Japan unveils the first blue rose.
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I'm not good at growing roses.
But I tried it again this year and so far, it's still flowering (i.e., it hasn't died yet).
Simple (as in 'old style') yellow rose bush. There were still some buds on the plant just last week but I haven't taken a picture of it. It's raining today so I doubt I'll be able to post a picture today.
Or were you asking Richard? :D
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Those blue roses looke fake.
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I'm not good at growing roses.
But I tried it again this year and so far, it's still flowering (i.e., it hasn't died yet).
Simple (as in 'old style') yellow rose bush. There were still some buds on the plant just last week but I haven't taken a picture of it. It's raining today so I doubt I'll be able to post a picture today.
Or were you asking Richard? :D
nope I was asking you! didn't know if roses grew well there with your short growing season.
and yes they do look fake dont' they? Not sure I like them..but they are interesting
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I'm not good at growing roses.
But I tried it again this year and so far, it's still flowering (i.e., it hasn't died yet).
Simple (as in 'old style') yellow rose bush. There were still some buds on the plant just last week but I haven't taken a picture of it. It's raining today so I doubt I'll be able to post a picture today.
Or were you asking Richard? :D
and if I was asking Richard, I'd go post in HIS blog!
::) ::)
:P
^
sticking my tongue out at you!
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You ever try to grow roses?
Took a couple a pictures this evening
Go check out 'Tiptoe through my tulips'
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Merry Christmas, Roland! :-*
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Happy Holidays Roland!
Just wanted to take a moment
to wish you a very happy and
healthy holiday season!!!!
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Bonnes Fêtes
et
Joyeux Noel
et
Bonne Année
However it's said, the sentiment is the same - I hope the holiday season and coming year bring you and yours joy, happiness, good health, and love! Thank you for all you do around here, Sheriff Roland!
Here's some wintry Banff goodness for you ... quite a bit different from seeing it in July, eh? ;)
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-Lynne
:-*
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, Roland!
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I think this will be my official "good-bye" post for the blogs when I leave for a trip.
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Hiya Roland!
Happy Independence Day
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Hiya Roland,
Dropping by everyone's blogs to say "Hi". Hope all is well!
Have a beer!
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Hello Roland!
Happy Halloween!
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Merry Christmas Roland!!!!
Hope you have had a happy holiday season,
and that the past year has been a great one for you!
May 2011 bring you more great things!
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Happy New Year Roland!
I hope that 2011 brings you
great things and happy memories!