Miss Tia has a beautiful eclectic yard filled with interesting things. She not only rescues animals, she rescues plants too. She saved that amazing Wisteria from a condemned house in January! I can't believe you got that thing to survive, Tia. The others are a wild Rose and Golden Honeysuckle. I absolutely love white flowers because they show up so well at night. Those plants are show stoppers! I loved them.*
Tia has critters living happily in her yard too, including toads. We have toads here too, they eat bugs and are good for your garden, but, we don't have anything like that monster! OMG, Tia calls him Toadzilla...you can see why. That top pic is hilarious, he doesn't look the least bit afraid of you. He knows he's safe.
Tia has critters living happily in her yard too, including toads. We have toads here too, they eat bugs and are good for your garden, but, we don't have anything like that monster! OMG, Tia calls him Toadzilla...you can see why. That top pic is hilarious, he doesn't look the least bit afraid of you. He knows he's safe.
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yeah and toadzilla just sat there like that while pan was barking at him!!! pan was barking and looking like 'wtf is this??'....i had pan and poli come in and then took toadzilla's pix!
no wisteria pix is showing! that has taken 3 years though to bloom, but i am surprised it survived at all as i got very little of the roots and planted it in a frozen hole in jan. that year and just basically had to wish it well!!! i think the flowers are a thank you for saving it as it hadn't flowered for years next to the empty house!!! :)
and (not even coffee yet to type properly all in one post! :) i gotta say everything is flourishing this year.....i dunno why, but everything is doing fantastic and things that have never bloomed are blooming like mad!!!
hope my veggies are as productive as the flowers!!!! and soon i'll have a cherry crop from my cherry bushes and my golden raspberries are filled with baby berries!!!
:)
Oh, I didn't get the wisteria??? Is that the rose still in the middle? That thing is HUGE! You have a green thumb for sure.
Beautiful flowers. We don't have toads in this particular little niche of Oregon, though we used to have lots of them when we would camp in central Oregon. Just frogs up here. That guy looks massive.
I have been enjoying Miss Tia's Journal and love when she posts her toad pics. Enjoyed these.
sandy
no, no wisteria pix.....i'm pretty sure i emailed you one....in the middle is the wild rose....it's HUGE this year...over 10 feet tall and it is just covered in blooms.....
sandy--thanks....gotta get back to lj-ing every day....it's been so hot and after i putter in the yard i'm just drained!
DD---the wisteria is the pix ending in 276...checked just the email i sent ya and i did include the wisteria.....
Tia I love the pics. Your one exceptional gardener.
Your plants are gorgeous! And that toad is a hoot. Do Pan and Poli bark at it?
pan was barking up a storm at toadzilla and giving a wtf? look....i went over to see what she was barking at and saw him! i made them go in (poli just plods around and follows pan) and then took pix!
Beautiful flowers, girl, all I can take care of is the woods and that's because they're self contained, I just have to look at it...but give me a house plant and it's doomed....
Miss Tia -
I am totally amazed that you were able to save this gorgeous Wisteria!! And in NE Ohio in Jan!You definitely have a green thumb and then some. The Honeysuckle and Wild Rose are equally beautiful. Well, I love toads and Toadzilla rightly deserves the name! i really enjoy the pics of your doggies. The last one you sent to DD was at a lake -- I can't remeber which one -Portage maybe? Anyway, that pic made me very homesick for OH :)
i use to take pan to bow wow beach in stow.....i can't take her there anymore....last spring (2009) when i took her there she was showing aggression towards little dogs....i spoke with the lady at my vet who trains dogs and she surmised that during the past year pan got use to chasing the kitties in my house (which she does, but she does not hurt them) and chasing poli as a pup and she was viewing the little dogs as something to chase but i should not take her back there in case she tried to bite or attack a little dog....so sadly we don't go to the dog park anymore....
i really can't see her harming a little dog, but i don't want to take a chance.....she is mostly parson russell terrier and they like to herd and hunt though.....
and pan has never hurt any creature, not even toadzilla....but still....don't want to risk her being around little dogs....
i could take poli to the dog park but my friend said it's really going down hill with people having over aggressive dogs that they don't control.... :(
when i took poli last fall to get microchipped ($15 via the city!!!) and we were standing in line a big dog came up to poli and she just rolled over and showed her belly!!! she's totally submissive!!! pan has trained her well!
Tia...is a wild rose the same as a cherokee rose? I remember these blooming in abudance the day my son was born. On the ride to the hospital, it looked like they all came out just to see me go and knew it was time for the baby. I had never seen so many before or since. Probably just me imagination--but it was nice!!!
jane--i have never heard of a cherokee rose!
Miss Tia...that is what my mom called it. I never knew the botanical name for it. Cherokee rose just seemed to fit it so well.
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