I had been worried about slugs and fungal diseases in everyone's garden until the horrendous storms of Thursday evening hit. We were lucky (but scared) to have only one huge branch of a city tree (a dying silver maple) down and no other damage. All
Continue ReadingThis is what the garden looks like this morning. ?It's just gorgeous and I am thrilled with how well it's survived a cold, wet miserable time. ? Who knew this was the long weekend. We are so used to the 24th of May being our day
Continue ReadingSpring perennials, spring ephemerals and anything to do with spring struggled to be know in the garden this week. I did not expect this flood on the left would make me stop, sit for hours in the middle of the garden on a bench, feet
Continue ReadingSpring really did arrive this week and the garden is growing at a remarkable clip. Can't keep up with it. The only disappointment is that the ephemerals so necessary to bumbles and other bees were drowned completely. The mud was just too daunting for them
Continue ReadingHERE'S MY GARDEN CREW: Ben (L) and Noah (R) are my neighbours and they are terrific workers. This weekend they learned how to take all the matted leaves off the garden with those big cloth gloves; to cut up stuff for the compost and use that
Continue ReadingI was at a really fabulous party last night, able to finally get out of the house after the endless cold subsided. The divine baked beans, great people and laughter. What a contrast with the past two weeks of ?lollygagging between bed and sheer exhaustion.?I
Continue ReadingNYE this year the garden looks like a skating rink. We had snow, then rain, then warmth and now snow again. It looks very beautiful but it's lethal for the plants. There is, however, nothing I can do about it, except to sit back and enjoy
Continue ReadingJust before we had a big dump of snow (and the garden now looks like its portrait), I toured the garden looking for flaws. It was perfect to my eye.? What a pleasure: there were still lingering scents from the artemisias, and other herbs. It
Continue ReadingFinally, I?ve got the winter e-letter ready and I sent it out by myself. This is a triumph of technology that I can be trained to do something on this computer, however long and painful it might be. If you haven?t received one by now,
Continue ReadingThe response to the closing of Gardening Life has been overwhelming. Who would have known that so many people cared about the magazine? We write in what, sometimes, seems to be a void only to find out that a lot of people are listening. So listen
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