Purple barberry (Berberis) showing its little red pal how to really do red in fall. In full sun, berberis gets […]
Wordless Almost-Over Wednesday: A leafy one
Yorkville on a Sunday afternoon
The rose window of the Toronto Heliconian Club, for women in arts and letters. A colleague of my husband’s invited […]
Casa Loma Stables: My excuse
Unless the real person happens to have been a multi-millionaire, real gardens by real people doesn’t apply in this case, […]
Frost? Time to rescue annuals & houseplants
Sarah’s plants Go To (Winter) Plant Jail, without passing Go and unfortunately without collecting $200 Is there frost in the […]
Goodness me, it’s Blooms Day, October ’09 in T.O.
The about-to-be-felled-by-frost ‘Paintbox’ nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus), still oh-so-orange and still going strong. Almost missed it with all the fuss and […]
Fall: From Leaside Bridge
No, we don’t want you to take a tumble. However, the view of the Don Valley from the Leaside Bridge […]
Frost warning: Allotment post mortem
Frost hit my community garden plot over Thanksgiving weekend. And there is a frost warning in the city for tonight, […]
Farewell, beloved Ile d’Orléans
Or, rather, Au revoir. Ile d’Orléans, the island in the St. Lawrence River just a few kilometres east of Québec […]