In Two Gardens

An old bedroom lamp meets a broken solar light and we have a light in our sitting area at night. I saw this idea 'on Facebook' ;) ...

   We were well rewarded! Last September Miles took down two very large trees that were killing a smaller, much prettier, Hawt...

Tulips are having a rough time in my garden this spring. I'm not sure if it was the frost (and snow) we had after they started growing, ...

For the first few years I was gardening, I lamented in the spring that my tulips didn't bloom well. A lot of green but sparse blooms. Af...

I figure that if Danielle can have field fish , I can have snow sharks. You can't really tell in this photo but the tip of that fin...

The nursery always looks terrible and this year is no different. It is completely overgrown. I can never keep up with the weeds and rarely...

I am a big fan of Lily. Every time one opens in my garden I think, hmmmmmm, that might be a favourite. Then midway through lily season ...

This is Moe Moe. We took her in when she was in need of a home and I could tell you all kinds of wonderful things about Moe Moe but this p...

 Heliopsis Last year, Nyla asked me to dig a Heliopsis out of her yard. Not the kind of thing I would have bought for myself. The foli...

This year we got to pruning, trimming and cleaning up the centerpiece, vastly improving our view from the house. Before we did that, it lo...

I have a lot of roses but most of them struggle to get full size. Aside from the ever rampant 'Therese Bugnet', none of my roses h...

The daylily are finishing here. A lot can be said about 'Stella D'Oro', much of it not nice. I regularly talk about how reliab...

Every day is picture day in my garden. At least once a day I wander around with my camera in hand. Mostly the dogs ignore my efforts, some...

This Knautia was here when we moved in. The pincushion flowers are lovely and the first flush is gorgeous, reaching its peak when the plan...

This story starts with mosquitoes. In late spring, our yard was full of them. I think I went through a whole can of Deep Woods Off in one ...

When I first started gardening, pink was my colour. Everything I bought and planted was pink. Then I fell in love with something orange an...

I have several spades. Several shovels, hand diggers and rakes. Our yard is big. I don't want to have to walk a block to grab a spade ...

The Boardwalk Garden has always had its' challenges. When we moved in, it was totally shade from trees overhead. Slowly, we have opened ...

Karma Candies are my thing. I like to look for them, notice them, savour and enjoy them. Then I like to share them. A Karma Candy is when ...

This isn't all of my yellow daylilies, but it's some of my favourites... daylily So Lovely daylily Atlanta Full House ...

I learned something new about daylilies today. A couple of days ago I took this photo of one of our new daylilies. It's got big 7" ...

This is the third year for Loraine in my garden but it might as well be the first. For the first 2 years, she did not do very well. She w...

I love the long view in any garden. Places where I can look through and see everything beyond the garden. In some places in our yard, thi...