I’m sitting here just a little antsy to be off doing something different, something exciting perhaps, certainly something better than face booking my morning away. Yes I have seen some amazing “things” on-line – gorgeous trees houses, inventive coffee cups, creative videos of just about everything….etc…etc…. I love looking at what others have done, but […]
This does not mean a “patient life.” This means that the ubiquitous, shade loving plant known as Impatiens, (sounds like impatience) will be few and far between for the next few years, in Toronto anyway, because of a blight, downey mildew. I can’t imagine Toronto, without Impatiens. We have a lot of shade trees in
No I am not about to give up everything and just leave or change directions without some thought to the matter. Yesterday, I posted about challenges and skydiving – a challenge, I am not about to take. However, I am approaching a turning point. My husband will retire in a year and a half and
The weather forecast for today was SUN!!! So we went to Monet’s garden at Giverny. It was awesome. Here is what we saw. This is a view of a small part of the garden from the house. Another part of the garden shot closer to the ground. The small trees are rose trees, which were
Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay 🙂 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens. With all this genetic engineering going on, it’s a way of preserving heirloom varieties and keeping Monsanto’s laboratories out of the flower beds of the nation. I have never considered
How important is location to you? Real Estate salespeople will tell you that there are three things that sell a house – location, location, location!! Obviously for a lot of people where they live is very important. I have often thought that it was just an accident of birth. You happen to have been born
If ever a flower could be described as a free spirit, it would be Columbine. It isn’t really an invasive species that spreads out from it’s original planting, like Lily of the valley. Columbine, just “pops up” here and there, almost at will. It mutates, changing colour and one presumes personality, as it moves location.
Horticulturists know a lot about “branding.” Somehow a plant called Aurinia Saxatilis doesn’t have the same “fly off the shelf” quality as Basket of Gold does. Nor does “madwort,” an earlier name, which was fortunately changed. Even though the plant was believed to cure forms of mental illness, it deserved a better name. Basket of
We are all familiar with the positive adjectives that Real Estate people use to make homes appealing. “Cozy” bungalow means small and cramped. “Original” architect’s concept means needs a lot of work and “unique” features means that there are some weird configurations in the home, that may have to be changed to make it suit
Every year we plant Marigolds in the garden. They are bright showy flowers and if the aphids don’t get them in the first week or so, they will bloom until the frost. It suddenly occurred to me that I knew nothing about Marigolds, except that they are annuals here in Canada and are often used
