Halloweenie Terrarium

Inspired by some of my tweeps, I spent $1.25 on some modeling clay, dug up my backyard, and went to town.

There's also some activated charcoal between the bottom gravel layer and the potting soil top layer for odour control. That stuff's expensive! I had some cedar sawdust on hand from my cedar planter project this summer, and I sprinkled some in to smell nice (mmm ... cedar) and to hopefully keep the nasties at bay. All in all, a fun couple of hours!

20°C and sunny, four days before Hallowe'en

 Spent the afternoon in shorts, laying on my back on the balcony, soaking it all in. Life is beautiful.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Well after the first frost ...

Wordless Wednesday

Near the Home Depot

There's an empty lot about to become condos near the Beaubien Home Depot. I took a detour from plotting my indoor light garden to take a few pictures Tuesday.

Yellow Toadflax - Linaria vulgaris

Bladder Campion - Silene cucubalus 

Wild Chicory - Cichorium intybus

Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis

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New England Aster - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

Unknown Aster

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The big picture  

Wow.

Dianthus plumarius ssp. praecox

From this thread on a visit to the Tatra mountains in Poland at the Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum.

Trillium cuneatum

Holy stunning trilliums

Skeleton Flower

Thunbergia fragrans

via The Firefly Forest

Neighbourhood walk

Took a spontaneous walk through a neighbourhood Ruelle Vert on the way back home from the library last weekend and took some snapshots (The Ruelle Verte is a municipal initiative to green and make generally more attractive the many alleyways in the city).

Hello kitty!

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Asters 

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White Snakeroot - Ageratina altissima

Passionflower vine 

Nasturtium

Brugmansia 

Elephant Ear

An elephant ear of some kind. The plant sent out long runners all over the place. It also had what I am guessing are seed pods that gradually filled with some mucilaginous goo as they ripened. I touched one lightly and it fell right off the plant.

Helenium

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Leaving the Ruelle Verte

I also passed by Laloux, a French bistro with great food and some nice flower boxes.

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 Lantana

 Bacopa

Asters

The end