When was the last time you went out to the Island? This weekend, I was there for the Terry Fox […]
Toronto Island Girl
Here today and gone tomorrow, or Frost Happens
Oh, how I enjoyed my nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) yesterday. How lovely they were, so many flowers, so many peppery leaves. […]
Off you Deadheads! Best Garden Pruners: Fiskars Micro-Tip Pruners
Deadheading can be strangely satisfying. Unlike indoor chores, dishwashing, for instance, where you do the same thing over and over […]
‘Tis better to give
Plantaholism has a positive side effect. When it leads to a superfluity of plants (as we know it does), it […]
Love/Hate in Raccoon City
Toronto, once again standing in for some American city in the movie Resident Evil, was seen bearing the emblem “Raccoon […]
Gnomerology
I was led into the garden by gnomes. Not today’s horror movie refugees, but 1930s pixie-on-toadstool fantasies. I was eight, […]
Blood Sweat and Tears or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spring Chores
Gardening Instructions generally fall into two camps: the first goes into so much detail that you are tired and feeling […]
Love/Hate, maple-flavoured
Meet the bane of my existence right now: a forest of Norway maple seedlings. The conditions must have been so […]