Tuffy P posting today. I took a drive out to Oshawa this afternoon to take in the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens and the 13th Annual Oshawa Peony Festival. Indoors, the judges tables fill half a hockey rink with seemingly every variety of peony. Outdoors, the… Read More
At some point in late fall or early winter, storm winds damaged the fisherman whirligig we had out front. I have to make one new part and replace another and it will be fine again. Meanwhile, today we decided to give the carousel whirligig a… Read More
I love the look of the mosaic bear in the snow….shouldn’t he be hibernating by now?
Last night we finished up our little grizzly bear project. I’m going to attach some stakes to the back and a buttress for stability and install the bear out back at the edge of our little wooded bit. You know, out by the imagination station.… Read More
We haven’t messed with ornamental grasses much in the past, but this year, we’re establishing a new garden that is mostly made up of them. Hakonechloa macra “Aureola” This grass forms a low mound of stems that arch gracefully in cascading layers. This is a… Read More
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
27th Street 