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The Parkwood Estate
On the second day of the 2015 Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto we visited The Parkwood Estate: "an autobaron’s home of inspiration & innovation." An "autobaron"... really? Yes as it turns out......
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The Planthunter, do you read it?
The Planthunter is..."an online magazine devoted to celebrating plants and the varied ways humans interact with them"As with most of my obscure internet obsessions I'm not quite sure how I found them,...
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A visit to Blooming Junction
I recently stopped in for a visit at Blooming Junction in Cornelius, Oregon...It's a nursery and produce stand...And they've got a nice display garden between the parking lot and the retail area.If...
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A week ago I was...
At Bauman Farms...A week ago was my birthday, it was a nice relaxing day. I decided to take Lila with me and go on a little afternoon road trip down through bits of the Willamette Valley (nearly 3-1/2...
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The Ligularia Garden...
This garden was the last stop on Day Two of the Toronto Garden Bloggers Fling. Understandably many of the private garden owners didn't want to have their name, or address, shared on the internet, and...
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Gardeney Goings On...
This is my Melocactus matanzanus, those pink bits have been appearing (and disappearing) for weeks now. Some days there's nothing resting on top of that orange cap. Some days are like this...The orange...
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Looking to the front garden, for my favorites wrap-up of July 2015
This month I thought I would do something a little different, the focus is on plants from the front garden, favorites still - but ones that grow out there in the public realm.The front garden tends to...
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Stinky, but fascinating...
Stapelia are low-growing succulent perennials predominantly from South Africa, with a few coming from other parts of Africa. I picked my Stapelia up during the spring 50% off sale at Digs Inside &...
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All passion, no flower...
Boosted by last summer's easy success with Passiflora 'Sunburst' I dived in deep this year and decided I needed more (many more) passion flowers in my garden...Searching the interwebs for unusual, yet...
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Marion Jarvie’s Garden
This was the one private garden on the Toronto GB Fling for which we were given the go-ahead to name the owner, Marion Jarvie. It turns out she’s quite the advocate for gardening and is very active in...
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Allan Gardens Conservatory
En route to the Cabbagetown Gardens (post coming up next week) the Garden Bloggers Fling bus drove right past this scrumptious eyeful…There was an audible “sigh…” heard on the bus, what gardener...
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Sometimes pure silliness is exactly what's called for...
Sitting on the patio one afternoon, diligently working away on the laptop (thank god for a strong WiFi signal) I found myself glancing about the garden. That in itself isn't odd, after all that's the...
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Visiting a few gardens in Cabbagetown…
Let’s go back to June and the Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto...On Sunday morning we set off for a “pre-opening preview” of the annual "Hidden Gardens and Private Spaces of Cabbagetown" garden tour....
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A blessed exception in a sea of excess...
What is with that bizarre title? This was the second to last stop on the 2015 Garden Bloggers Fling, it was a private garden. As the bus worked its way through the neighborhood my feeling of dread grew...
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Bloomday for August 2015, a day early...
Wow, look at this...a Bloomday post an entire day early. Am I cheating or what!? Yes, yes I am. But tomorrow is the Green on Green Tour and I'll (hopefully) be up to my eyeballs in garden guests. No...
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Reflections on tour day...
The first guests arrived before the 11:00 opening hour Saturday for the Green on Green Tour. Being polite people they patiently waited in their car until I spotted them and invited them in. We walked...
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Getting my plant therapy at Garden Fever…
Knowing I’d want plenty of time to get the garden in tip top shape for Saturday's tour I’d cleared my calendar (as much as possible, which amounted to the better part of 3 days) last week. Focus: stay...
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Visiting Old Hurlburt School Gardens
I've not made good use of the Hardy Plant Society open gardens book this season. There are pages and pages of member gardens open virtually every weekend from April until October, I've only visited a...
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Correa backhouseana is my favorite plant in my garden (this week)
Why is this Australian fuchsia my favorite this week? Because of those great little buds, I think it might be fixing to bloom...Funny how the words “Frost hardy at least into the mid to upper teens”...
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In a vase on Monday, the kindness of gardeners edition
There was a gift bag left on my porch last week, in it was this vase. I have three very kind people to thank, but I have no way to get a hold of them, so I thought maybe an "In a vase on Monday" post...
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