In the last few days, an alarming number internet surfers have landed on my blog after searching for information on edible mushrooms in Southern Ontario. I would like to ease the troubled minds of these individuals right now. There are no edible mushrooms outside of… Read More
I’ve got a cold. Don’t worry though, gentle readers. I’ll try not to be grumpy about it.
Cotula potentillina is a perennial alpine groundcover. I added one plant to the garden, tucked in beside the new path. We’ll see how it does next year.
We have two varieties of Rudbeckias in the canoe garden. One is the Little Goldstar, which is supposed to be an improved perennial Black-Eyed Susans variety and looks like your basic Black-Eyed Susan. The other is the Prairie-Glow Brown-Eyed Susan. It is touted as a… Read More
AKA Himalayan Cobra Lily. Jack-in-the-pulpit late-spring blooms. Sun to part-shade. We put ours in the big front garden near the front. This can get 4 or 5 feet tall with umbrellas of leaflets. That sounds spectacular. Ours is small but then we just planted it.
We have one specimen of Phytolacca americana, from Lost Horizons. It’s in the front garden near the porch. This plant has a number of alias’, such as: Virginia poke, American nightshade, cancer jalap, coakum, garget, inkberry, pigeon berry, pocan, pokeroot, pokeweed, pokeberry, redweed, scoke, red… Read More
Robert Hughes, well known for his book and 1980 television series, The Shock of the New, has died. Hughes was 74.
I posted a short while ago about the canoe garden not being complete until we planted ornamental cabbage in the bow and stern. Well, Tuffy P just came home and did just that.
Pee Wee King was born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski in 1914 and lived until 2000. He was Polish-American from Milwaukee Wisconsin and he is best known as the co-writer of the Tennessee Waltz. His co-writer on that tune was Redd Steward. They wrote the tune… Read More
….when is he going to post pictures of that canoe garden…..I’m going to snap a bunch in the morning.
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