In the last week I’ve managed to seriously catch up on my long neglected garden. One of my major projects was to expand my front flower bed, along the front of the amour stone, to give me a bit more space for perennials (that I’m perpetually over crowding) and to add some more bulbs. In…
Tag: tulips
Soon, drywall
Slowly but surely, our house renovation is moving along. Almost all our new windows have been installed. We weren’t planning on doing that upstairs one at the front of the house, until we saw how awful it looked next to the brand new ones, so that one has been ordered to. By the way I…
Desire…
We saw a large bed of these gorgeous tulips along the walkway in Berczy Park behind the flatiron building downtown Toronto a couple weeks ago. Tulips have to be one of the most diverse and beautiful flowers on the planet. They are also one that has shaped the history of our culture. If you have never…
Tulips, we hardly knew ye
We’ve had a wicked cold snap here in Ontario. This weekend Chris and I were at the cottage and it snowed! Lots! None of it really hung around but Saturday saw plenty of the white stuff falling. Thankfully I had avoided temptation and not yet put out any of my tomatoes, despite the wonderful early-summer-like…
My garden is convinced
There have been snowdrops going strong in my garden since last weekend, when we got that gorgeous warm sunny weather. This weekend has been a bit of write off weather-wise, and according to tonight’s forecast next weekend will be too although all week is supposed to be beautiful (what is with that? Seriously Mother Nature,…
April showers bring May flowers
Just trying to get through the work days… and one of the things that helps is coming home and enjoying the changes in my garden.