We are not big rose growers. We don’t know much about them and I confess we are inattentive to their specific needs. However, one rose bush came with the house. Tuffy P cut it right back this year, and it has responded with a small… Read More
This morning, Tuffy P took over this blog to post about garden tour in Oshawa and Whitby. There was a request on the Twitter machine for some shots of our garden here at 27th Street. You asked for it – you got it! Here’s a… Read More
In my mind, summer starts when the peonies burst into bloom. This began today. This morning, they were tight little balls – on her arrival home from work this afternoon, Tuffy P announced they had burst, and rushed out with the camera. Our peonies start… Read More
The other day I posted a picture of Imagination Station #2, which has been taken over by some kind of vine. Here is the first imagination station. With a little help from me, this one has a honeysuckle growing on it. The plant originates in… Read More
Back at our old place in the St. Clair and Caledonia neighbourhood, we had a small garden but because it was very sunny, I grew great tomatoes and hot chiles. Here at 27th Street we have many beautiful mature trees but we don’t have enough… Read More
Regular readers of this blog know about the Imagination Stations. These are lean-to or shelter-type structures – two of them – out in the back yard. I built them from materials from the garden and since I made them (I build the first one two… Read More
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