The Plant Kingdom

It's Friday night and I'm feeling right, oh what a night! ))) OMG! Thank God it's Friday! Probably Toronto didn't sleep last night because of the euphoria brought on by the first final battle between Toronto Raptors vs. Golden Gate Warriors. First of 7 basketball Championship game and Raptors won its first. Looks like the whole Canada cheers with them and other people from other countries. Great! As I said before it's long time coming and they deserve to win. I don't know why it takes many years to realize that.


Here we are again admiring the freshly manicured lawn which takes an hour of lawnmowing. Keeping the yard nice and pretty to look at and it's time to sprinkle water to keep the bermuda grass healthy.

 More flowers bloom from the violet clematis.

 More healthy blooms from the burgundy/red petunia.

 Geraniums, heart-shaped fuschia petunia (hybrid) and dainty smaller pink petunia in a hanging planter.

 The sunflowers are just growing slowly but surely, maybe need fertilizer. The tallest sunflower is now 20 inches in height. I'm getting impatient waiting for the outcome and see the huge sunflower head which boast about 14 inches (flower head) in diameter. Wow! Ants, slugs and maybe worms are the pests to get rid of. The loganberry probably been shocked upon replanting. At least not bothered by ants. Why ants like the sunflower leaves? Don't tell me sunflower leaves are sweet?

 The young cabbages that were shocked from replanting are now growing happily and soon to have that round circular preparation to grow its heads.

 Another petunia planter.

 The violet clematis has its tendrils growing at least 4 inches per day. I can't wait for the tendrils to cross over the top of the fence. Or meet the pink clematis on the other side. However, the pink clematis hasn't climb yet to the strings provided for them. I watch their growth everyday since at the time of its pruning after winter time. The pink clematis plant was the first to grow its branches and leaves including the first to grow its buds and bloomed its flowers first. One flower first. The next flowers bloomed after 2 days. There is nothing happening with the violet clematis. After the pink clematis bloomed 12 flowers then suddenly about 52 buds came out like all at once from the violet clematis. It took a week before all those 52 clematis bloomed all at once. Then suddenly the pink clematis looked kind of sad after. I used to talk to my garden. OMG! It's like a chess game of attack. Yeah, even floral or plants have that natural sense of strategy. I was amazed of their style. Clematis species are very smart plants from the Plant Kingdom. I should have a book entitled THE PLANT KINGDOM written by E. Verna Turner.

I talked to my coconut palm tree too. I hope this tree survives. The palm tree survives in hot climate zone why not survive here. The weather is hot here too during summer.