Showing posts with label giant allium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giant allium. Show all posts

Monday, 19 June 2023

Where did the weekend go?

Goodbye to the old licence plate. We decided to go for a generic one. My name has been in the paper a couple of time. Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!


It's a beautiful time of year, aside from the bugs. We await the monarch butterflies. The milkweed plants in the front are just about to bloom. The smell will be incredible.

 

Clematis and allium. 


The Bartzella peony have set 4 blossoms. I've pink and white peonies, as well. Only the white have an aroma.

We cannot ignore the simple whites.

I cleaned out the pond pump. Percy is still alone in the pond. I've not decided what to do with Percy and his yummy friends. Normally, I get a break shutting down the indoor 60 gallon aquarium. 

I nearly stepped on the spider. It appears to have eggs on its back. This is just with the iPhone. 

Fred is obviously pregnant, the poor thing looks like how I felt when I was 9 months pregnant!



Fred yawns from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Thursday, 16 June 2016

Spring continues to unfold as it should

I'm overwhelmed with my lovely owl visitors, getting a little behind on photos! Momma grooming her chick was such a gift: Owl update: TWO CHICKS! Back to our regularly scheduled program!
The lady slippers are at the end.  The Dratted Red Squirrel is busy, cats are watching her. 



Lots of motorcycles about. See what he has in his backpack?! Isn't that cute? It was in Westport. We were eating at The Cove.


Poppies have popped!


Wild strawberries are out! Allium, new impatience plants, clematis. It is so pretty out there!

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Spring flowers!

Yellow Wood Poppy

After yesterday's bear encounter, I confined myself to the garden!

I love this time of year when the garden wakes up. My Orchid cactus was a gift from Nancy, and it likes being out in the sunshine.

 I have some plants that were new from last year. I'd forgotten about the jack-in-the-pulpit in that post. I hope it sprouts. They are from a native and rare plant nursery in southern Ontario. This Wood Poppy is one of the plants.
Marsh marigold - poisonous
Lilacs are ready
Orchid cactus
daffies
tulips
primrose
forget-me-nots
iris

Linda, AKA Crafty Gardener, has kindly ID'd the last flower as giant allium. I really don't remember buying them (there are two), let alone planting them!

The red trillium in the woods are still blooming. Nancy, my friend in Muskoka, writes about the difficulties of trillium spreading, as they depend upon critters, like ants!


The white trillium, in the garden, had a bit of a trim. This is a consistent story! At least they left me two blooms this year. Last year, Daisy guarded them for me!
May 2016

Daisy, fern, trillium, 2015


May 2014

Last year, I planted two apple trees, the last two that sat on the lot at our local nursery. Bambi has trimmed them, but they survived! I placed broken pine boughs around it to discourage them.



My horse chestnut has flowers this year. It didn't do well last year. It is heart-warming seeing everything come back after winter.