"Golden Dragon" on the tag

She caught me by surprise as I wasn't expecting her to bloom for me. I took her outside in the garden this summer and left her inside the gazebo for couple of weeks. I didn't know what to expect as I have never seen her provide me any blossom. Her petal has a darker yellow stripes on it and her leaves are at least 2 feet long. When I bought her about 2 or 3 years ago from Holes Green house she was only small and the lady, Stephanie told me it will take several years before she blooms. Stunning she started with one bud and gradually the rest opened up too.

Indian Rope Hoya

This year in the summer I have decided to take her for an excursion holiday outside under our pear tree. She was growing really well with occasional rain showers on her throughout the summer months. I was excited to see her bloom for the first time since I bought her about 2 yers ago. Frankly until a few days ago she rewarded me with beautiful breathtaking blooms!!!

Bird House #2

The picture on this one is a little blurred due to the fact that I took it from upstairs my bedroom window. Last year we had quite a few bird's eggs hatched from this one. Both male and female birds were attending to their young. Cheeko was waiting on the bottom of the bird house for them for a feathery feast

Bird House #1

In the attempt to have birds in our garden I bought this bird house from Home Sense. I had it sat on a pole of about a metre tall for don't remember how long. One day I saw my cat jumping at the bird house and lord and behold there they were chipping! Earlier I noticed the bottom seam swelled a little. I don't think it was probably constructed due to the material being used; the particle board started to decay, however this bird doesn't mind it. Hooray for me, will have little birds chipping again soon.

Bird House #3

An updated picture on this. I have finished spray painting and my husband cut up a base for me to put a pole on it. Two days ago I saw a bird sat by the window. She jumped in and investigated the main floor and jumped out through the other window. Honestly I think this has too many windows and I doubt it if the birds are going to make a home out of this one. The rain might be able to come in. So far no nest yet. Besides the ugly magpie might be able to get the little babies when they are hatched. We might have to improvised it and closed some windows with pieces of wood. Let wait and see what happen.

New Addition

My hubby bought this Amitabha for our garden. I don't know much about Amitabha or Buddha and I hope someone will clue me in. My guess his hand gesture represents blessing or meditation. All the same I am clueless but I just adore it. The color is perfect and it stands about a metre tall.

Mother's Day

When I saw this bouquet of flowers I couldn't resist. It was the day before Mother's Day I went with my two sisters to Costco. Since I love flowers and yellow and brown are one of my favourite colors. This one seems to call my name when I walked by it. Hmm..I just love it! Why not indulge and spoil myself. I have to love myself too right? :)

New Bird House

I bought it and decided to paint it. Ha ha I cheated. You want to know how I did it? Cheeky as usual I was scouting around and bought 2 cans of oil base paint; a white and a brown. I heard oil base is better for out door projects. I couldn't get anyone to help me at Rona until after waiting for about 15 minutes someone gave me a hand telling me the pros and cons. I sprayed it and it is surely a piece of cake. Ha ha I did it! You have to wait for my updated pic. Hey know what I saw a bird went into my new bird house inspecting the main floor and out the other window. Boy that is beautiful! I like to use a binocular to watch birds too if you must know eventhough I do feel a little dizzy after looking through the lens. Enough of my rambling for today so let get to see what I have to cook.

Red Tulip

I thought I got rid of these tulip but they came back. I didn't realized how beautiful they are when nothing else is blooming around now.

Blue Girl

She is one of my favourite tender rose that grew in my garden year after after, although we have a harsh winter of -30 C. We have her growing close to the back wall of our house and there wasn't any winter covering as long as you have the roses buried least 11/2 to 2 feet deep.

Edith Woldrof

A difficult plant to keep due to our Zone 3 area. I have purchased mature plants for the last two years and they flowered the same year but the next year they didn't come back. I went ahead and ordered 8 different rhizomes from BC's nursery and started them inside the house over the winter months. From my observation this particular one just grew about 2" while the others grew about a foot tall and have quite a few new growth. I am puzzled what is going on with this particular plant???

Peony

Peony is always a welcoming sight. Some will support its stems other I had to provide some sort of anchor. The color is breathtaking especially this one. It is more like neon and rain does not blemished their petals which is also a bigger advantage so it prolonged its beauty.

Mount Royal Plum Tree

I am quite pleased this year we had lots of fruits from this particular tree. When we started it was only the size of a pencil, a sucker from my italian neighbor's garden. It took approximately 4-5 years and perseverance before we managed to harvest quite a basketful of fruits.