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Patience pays off and since I’ve never had any patience anyway, I’m glad this little Gardenia is doing so well and blooming so profusely! I babied it all winter – making sure it got as much available sun as possible and now payback time is here! I wish I could make this a “scratch and sniff” image for those who are not familiar with the Gardenia scent. Very sweet – and what falls into my category of “old fashioned” flowers.

And a little something to brighten the way to the weekend!

Only 6 more days until Spring!

I haven’t been able to post much lately. It seems that about 75% of the leaves have fallen so raking has become part of a nearly daily routine! But, there are quite a few left ON the trees as evidenced by this colorful example:

For once there is a bird feeder without a squirrel on it!!

As for the Paperwhites…

I came down this morning to see several of the bulb stems bent over – meaning the top-heavy buds are starting to form. Right on track for some Thanksgiving Day blooms this year…

Okay then – these are going to be posts with LONG images from now on!

Here are links to prior weeks in case you’d like to see the growth in just 5 weeks’ time:

4, 3, 2 and 1.

No signs of flower buds as yet, but I’m still hoping I will have flowering bulbs for Thanksgiving!

Well, if you’ve been keeping track of the 2013 Paperwhite bulbs, you’ll be amazed to see how much they’ve grown in the last week:

You can see the growth from Week One and Week Two

Tomorrow I’ll be revealing my 2013 Pumpkin Design. I doubt it will win any awards but it has been fun to work on – almost finished!!

I’ve been planting Paperwhites (Narcissus) each year for I can’t remember how many years. If I time it right I have a nice bowl of white flowers just in time for Thanksgiving. Looks like they might bloom a bit earlier this year:

I’ll try to get a image of them at least once a week to show how they are doing. For today’s photo, they’ve been in the bowl one week and there was no sign of life then so – think I have a good batch of bulbs this year!

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I’ll let these little low-maintenance plants speak for themselves…

Hosta – Patriot	Hosta – Flavocircinalis
Hosta – Minuteman	Hosta – Paradigm
Hosta – T-Rex	Hosta – T-Rex
Hosta – Albomarginata	Hosta – Big Daddy
Hosta – Francee	Hosta – Golden tiara
Hosta – Guacamole	Hosta – Liberty
Hosta – Patriot	Hosta – Revolution

Some cool blue tones for the TGIF photo this week…

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