Wednesday in the Garden

Last year, R made a structure for some clematis to climb out of the framework for a gazebo tent. He calls the vine growing on it 'my clematis'.

We had a new concrete patio poured last summer and have been busy planting hosta and hydrangea around it as it's quite shady. The hydrangeas are loving their new home!

The clematis outside of our front door is lovely when it's in bloom, a very cheery greeting.

Another planting of Anabelle hydrangea, some sedum and daisies off of the patio. Oh how I love the way everything is coming along. But then as you tour your lovely garden you find things like this...

The bunnies in our neighbourhood like to have a nibble on the new plants just to test out whether or not they're yummy. Sigh.

On another note! Just to pass on a fascinating tidbit, did you realize that today's date is 07/08/09 and this morning the clock would have, at one point been 04:05:06. So in review, it would have been 04:05:06 on 07/08/09 - very cool! It won't happen again until 3009.

Rain Soaked Roses

I'm not far enough into Saplings yet to give any sort of a review other than it's really growing on me. So I thought that I would share a picture of our rambling rose bush, so full of rainwater it's almost touching the ground. R has just come in from walking Deacon and had me in stitches! Around here we have a 'junk pick-up', a couple of times a year the city will collect large items for the scrap heap. R told me that he had spied through some plastic wrap, a print featuring a mouse eyeing up a piece of fruit, sitting at the bottom of someones driveway. He thought to himself "Darlene loves mice, perhaps I could bring this home". R pulled back the plastic for a closer look and decided that the mouse had the look, not so much Beatrix Potter as Quentin Tarantino. The print stayed put. I thanked him for that.