The irises in our front garden come from my brother Salvelinas’ garden. They’re really beautiful this year, especially the purple ones.
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In the Garden
Regular visitors will have figured out by now that I like gardening, and I usually have some garden project or another under way. Today I’m going to post some shots of the back gardens. The garden on the left in the photo above doesn’t look… Read More
Sore
I worked in the garden most of today. Our house-guest Toni helped out and made a new little garden for us in the front. I planted and weeded and worked on extending a mulch path. I’ll snap some photos tomorrow. I’d say it’s coming along… Read More
The Roselands Plant Sale
I was teaching this morning, so I missed the Roselands Horticultural Society’s annual plant sale, but Tuffy P and our friend Toni went and brought home all kinds of excellent plants. The photo shows Toni along with another friend, Keith, who was helping out with… Read More
Greens
I’ve been enjoying salads all week made with greens picked from my little veggie garden out back. Right now it’s mesclun mix and baby spinach, and today some scallions too. There is something unspeakably delightful about fresh greens from the garden. As we enjoy the… Read More
Garden Updates
I thought the lean-to needed more substance, and so I fortified it some today. I also planted a flowering currant shrub. That’s the plant with the yellow flowers on the right side of the photo. The veggie garden is coming along fine. We’ll be… Read More
Dandelion Wine
In Toronto, some time back, we made a choice. We chose dandelions over poison when we outlawed the nasty crap that kills the dandelions. And so, our parks and lawns are filled with lovely yellow flowers and the wind blows all the seeds around the… Read More
The Shovel Garden
At the back of our house, there is a wooded area. It wasn’t always that way. Apparently an earlier resident of the house did a lot of tree planting on the property. Just in front of the wooded area, we have a little woodland garden,… Read More
Gardens
Tuffy P cleaned up the back perennial garden today, taking out weeds and old dead plant matter. This garden will start looking really good in about a month. Some of you may be wondering about the red and white item in the foreground. That’s an… Read More
Sprouting
I’m happy to report that various seeds are germinating in the veggie patch out back. Spinach, beets, lettuce, and carrots…everything very very tiny, but still a promise of the bounty to come.
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