Crafty Gardener
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I love crafting and I love gardening, hence my name was created - Crafty Gardener, who in real life is Linda. Now I'm retired I have more time to do all the things I love to do, and I often wonder how I had time to go to work. I've been sharing my love of gardening and crafting since my site was established in 2004. If you are looking for help in seed identification you have come to..
Crafty Gardener
4d ago
April has seen mixed weather, from those teasing days of being lovely and warm mixed in with rainy days when it feels really chilly. It is so lovely to listen to the birds chirping away, all singing their spring mating …
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Crafty Gardener
1w ago
Leucisim is a partial loss of colour/pigmentation in birds. It causes white spots or splotches. In birds it does not effect the colour of eyes therefore the birds are not considered albino. On the rainy days this month I have …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
Spring is getting closer. This year spring arrives in our area on March 19. That is a bit earlier than usual, perhaps that is what the groundhog meant by an early spring! We have already had some lovely weather, warm …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
Finding a tasty bread when you are gluten free can be a challenge. I’ve tried so many kinds, all of them small, all very expensive compared to regular bread, and frequently hard to find. One thing I learned is to …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
Bumbershoot is the old fashioned name for umbrella. I love unusual words. I decided to turn that umbrella upside down, add some spring things and make a bumbershoot display instead of the traditional wreath. I have several umbrellas but didn’t …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
Marsh marigolds, cowslips or caltha palustris are lovely yellow blooming perennial plants that grow in shallow water near marshy or swampy areas. A few years ago we ventured into the swampy, mucky area close to our house to dig a …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
A delicious recipe with naturally gluten free vegetables topped a gluten free white sauce (seasoned) and cheddar cheese slices. Ingredients: Dill, parsley and Italian seasoning were added to the white sauce. You can choose to add what you like or …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
The white trillium has been the provincial flower of Ontario since 1937. The name ‘trillium’ comes from the Latin for ‘three’. The plant has large, often white, three-petaled flowers above three broad bracts that look like leaves. They are members …
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Crafty Gardener
1M ago
Hawk is the common name for a medium sized bird of prey. We frequently see them flying overhead scanning the fields for food. There are times when they will swoop into the garden in hopes of capturing a small songbird. …
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Crafty Gardener
2M ago
A few weeks ago the hawk was sitting in the back tree. It was a snowy day, typical of the past winter, and it just sat there are observed the garden. He sat there for ages and all the small …
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