Last evening, I was down the street admiring “my” pink poppies. These are the poppies I killed by trying to […]
Ingenuity grows in the garden
What’s growing in May & June: Irises!
The cornu is definitely copious when it comes to irises in June. Even my Microgarden tends to feature a good […]
Bragging Rights – or – How I Learned to Stop Being a Stupid Kid and Love Gardening
Helen and I say we come from “a long line of gardeners” and it’s true: our bragging rights. Our grandmother […]
Smell-o-vision
Too bad this invention doesn’t exist, as this post about garden plants whose smells I love would be a lot […]
Toronto Garden Tours
Now is the season for all good gardeners to come to the aid of their nosiness. I love garden tours. […]
Faves: ‘Carol Mackie’ Daphne
When you find a shrub that will grow in fairly consistent shade, and has interesting foliage, and will flower, and […]
It’s our little secret
We have a decent crop of gardeners on our street, from ingenious T. up at the top, with his backyard […]
Green blight: Dog-strangling Vine
For some years now, Toronto’s meadows, ravines, valleys and now, it seems, gardens have been increasingly blighted with a green […]