Mon jardin 2009

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The peonie are doing competition to the poppies (as the iris are on their last leg - for this year).

Here's the Gay Paree again.

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This picture is a coupl'a days old now. It's a sidewalk's view of the ligher shaded poenies on the south side of mon jardin. Of course there are more blooms open now and though it's not as eye-grabbing as the iris bed was, or the north-west corner still is, it's competition.

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I'll be away for a week and therefore will only be occasionally posting already photobucketed pics for the duration. Hope this lovely flip side of a minor Jimmy Rogers keeps you in good stead until my return.

(BTW, here in Toronto, in 1961, this song reached #6 staying on the air for 12 weeks on the CHUM AM)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTunBdFDqY[/youtube]

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Took this picture trying to underline just how large that royal blue iris is by showinganother (yellow) iris in the same picture.

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And again yesterday morning, before leaving town, I tried to highlight it's size by putting my massive masculine hand in the picture.

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For the first time evah, a roasebush survuved to it's second summer in mon jardin.

It's an old-fashioned yellow rose bush. (This photo was taken 4 days ago)

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And after just two more days, there were a lot more open blooms.

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Before I left on Wednesday I did the rounds & took pictures of most of the poenies.

Here's the Double Bloom Pink Poenie that I thinned out last fall (along with the Sarah Bernhardt).

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The first of two near white (pink?) poenies that'll get thinned out at the end of this summer.

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And the second near white poenie. All three (plus the Sarah Bernhardt) are on the south side of the front yard.

(The yellow iris at the bottom of the last picture is the same bloom as the iris at the top of this one.)