All posts tagged “Anchovy World Headquarters”
Irises
When I created the perennial garden up front last year, my brother gave me a bunch of irises from his garden. They’re all in bloom now and they have become a June showpiece in the garden.
Garden Update
I plan to periodically post photos of our gardens so I can look back and see what they looked like at different times of the season. Here’s the big garden in the front yard. Later, Sunflowers will dominate the front of it. There are two… Read More
The Gardens at Anchovy World Headquarters
I put in the garden above last year. Everything seems to be coming back just fine + I’ve added a few annuals for colour until the perennials start to come into their own. There are two small saskatoon berry bushes in there and a dogwood… Read More
The Veggie Patch
This garden is built on a piece of land that once had a big apple tree on it. You can see the remains of the stump in the top left. I raised it up and added landscape cloth to create a veggie garden environment separate… Read More
Veggies this year
Back before the epic relocation of Anchovy World Headquarters, I worked a modest vegetable patch each season for several years. The new location is on a fabulous lot, with numerous mature trees. While beautiful and great for shade, the prospects of a veggie patch here… Read More
Something is very wrong with this picture
I started some prep work out in the back yard this morning for the new raised garden I’m creating. Suddenly the sky got all dark and it started snowing on me. That’s just not right. It’s stopped now and none of it is sticking, but… Read More
3 cats a-playin’
You should have no problem spotting the three cats at play in this photo. Can you name them too? In the foreground is an excellent early season example of Amanita chipbowlius, a toadstool indigenous to the Long Branch area of Southern Ontario.
Early Spring, Anchovy Town
Lake Anchovy
The accumulation of snow out behind Anchovy World Headquarters melted away quickly on Monday morning in the pouring rain, ponding in the yard. There is a layer of ice now on beautiful Lake Anchovy. Fortunately we know from experience that the water drains away from… Read More