I asked for some contributions to what makes a good garden combination. Here's a really imaginative one from Barry Parker. He has a glorious garden in downtown Toronto. It's the kind you like to return to a couple of times a year to see how
Continue ReadingThe garden in winter seems to hold all the secrets of the world in its mysteriousness. Here's mine before I rushed out with a broom. It's glorious and picturesque: But this is a dangerous situation for trees and shrubs laden with snow as the sun
Continue ReadingI am thrilled about how good the garden looks right now. The Japanese maple in the centre looking like a piece of sculpture with the snow caught in its branches just so. The media frenzy: cancelled on Zoomer radio yesterday (Monday); bumped on Canada A. M.
Continue ReadingThe berberis I showed below is indeed spiny and will keep all cats and skunks away from any border. Another good quality. Catalogues: Oh my, the Thompson & Morgan catalogue has drifted in to lift the misery of the blizzard going on outside. It's
Continue ReadingWhat is going on this year? In all the lists of stuff for people, we gardeners are pretty much ignored. What a change from a few years ago when garden writers were swamped with requests to make up lists for magazines and newspapers. It’s symptomatic
Continue ReadingI feel like perennials are staring at me, just daring me to leave them alone for a few more days. But there will be frost tonight and what I had forgotten all about was turning off the water, draining the hoses and the copper pipes.
Continue ReadingOur electricity went out at 10 p.m. on Thursday and from that moment for 24 hours we were without electricity, heat, light. ?Scary? You?bet. At one point I was in bed with all my clothes on, plus long underwear, duvet, blankets and all the candles
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 ReadingGood friends make this time of year extra?special. And I am super lucky in having Alison Gordon in my life. She?s my opera buddy, hortbuddy and now a birding buddy. I know very little about birds. I can recognize the local red-tailed hawk when he?s
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