Welcome To My Garden! (pic heavy)

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Beautiful Garden! You've worked so hard and it sure paid off! You have a great collection of plants. I love your Hostas and bleeding hearts, and you've chosen some really pretty annuals. You're very creative!

I have a sundial that is exactily like your birdbath! Plus I have some of the same pots (got them at Plant World!).

I'll have to look around for some Solar Kitties. They are so cute!

Nice work!
 

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Dude, I'm on a search for the solar kitties. They're awesome. I've found some other really cool solar lighting, but haven't found kitties yet.
 

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Originally Posted by mooficat

what a wonderful garden, lots of hidden treasures and places to chill


wonderful, just wonderful
Nice spot to stop for a drink, right Ann????


Great job Colleen!
 
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Thanks everyone! Sure - come on over! I have lots of wine and coolers........and I think DH has some beer (you know - the real stuff, Canadian beer)!
 

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Party at Colleens!


Wonderful job on the gardening!
I've been planting a bunch of things myself lately.

Ok Heather, send me a PM when you find those solar kitties!
 

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Um, would you mind sending me a PM so I don't forget to send you a PM??? I will forget for sure if it's not written down somewhere I see often...

Hey Colleen, if you come home one evening and you've found that your little solar kitties have been replaced with some garden fairies... think nothing of it, and remember that I live a very long way away...
 
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Originally Posted by CatsAreBetter

Um, would you mind sending me a PM so I don't forget to send you a PM??? I will forget for sure if it's not written down somewhere I see often...

Hey Colleen, if you come home one evening and you've found that your little solar kitties have been replaced with some garden fairies... think nothing of it, and remember that I live a very long way away...
Um - I don't live in Canada - no no!
 
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I tried Googling them - no luck! Sorry folks - don't think they're available anymore! But I could be wrong! I bought two of them and my Dad got me the third last year for my birthday (my Mom made me hide the other two and pretend I'd never seen them before).
They had dogs too, but I didn't get any of them! They still have the hanging lights but not cats or dogs. I'll have to go out once it's dark and take a pic of them - really make all of you drool! They're so pretty lit up!
 

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Wow, you've been busy. You do deserve the coffee cake after all!
I also thought the solar kitty's were cute.

My mom has many similar flowers including the wave petunias. She also had a few fuscia's (not sure of spelling, just cut and paste from your post) last year and they were huge once they grew in the hanging baskets.

I'd do all that planting, but I'd kill it and the plant police would be after me. I'm lucky that my hostas grow. I thought I would throw caution to the wind though and planted some President's Choice plants I picked up at Loblaws last week. Let's see if they will grow.
 

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I found a lot of gazing balls, and fairy solar lights too, and some frogs, lady bugs, dragonflys and butterflies..thought you might be interested in those. I did find puppy and kitty solar lights on ebay, as well as a ton of other lights. I even found a "tree" solar light. It was quite cute. Now I wish I had a real house with a real garden, but for the time being, I'll decorate my little wanna be garden that I didn't plant anything in (it came with bushes and a flowering shrub...) and put some fairy lights next to the regular fairies. I'll save my kitty lights for the back deck.

your garden looks so peaceful.
 

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Oh, man, I have got to get some solar lights. I'm on a mission. All, of course, inspired by your lovely, wonderful garden. Consider it all homage to the awesome job you have done!
 

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Originally Posted by LokisMum
omg are you in the u.s???? i have that EXACT kitty planter, the one on the right. I've bought a few of those tin kitties in different positions and shapes. spooky!
 

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Originally Posted by LokisMum

Well, that's the tour! Now you all know what I've been up to lately! I must admit I didn't plant the hanging baskets (too lazy) but I did plant everything else, including all the planters!
Now if we can just agree on some deck furniture (we got rid of our old stuff).
The hanging plants are one of my favorites! You have a very nice garden. Tons of flowers and decorations.
 

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wow! looking at your yard makes me feel kinda quilty and lazy. I have a lot less than you, and mine doesn't look near as nice. maybe I'll get brave and put on some pics.
 

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Colleen those pictures are really lovely!


I must get snapping in mine at the weekend, but there'll be plants that were already there when i moved into the house and i havent a clue what some of them are?
 
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