Rock Clematis Clematis columbiana var. tenuiloba

The Tiniest Clematis You Ever Did See

Big life changes are in motion. My friend Barry Parker has sold his house and is moving away from his garden of 27 odd years. He recently had a sale to raise funds for the move. Barry has gifted me several plants over the years, and my garden holds many reminders of our friendship and

Auricula ‘Pinstripe’

I bought this adorable little Primula aricula ‘Pinstripe’ the other day at the Ontario Rock Garden Society sale. It was the one plant purchased there that I didn’t really need, but couldn’t bear to leave behind. I’m currently keeping it in a little hypertuffa pot I made years back (molded around a plastic drinking cup),

Planting a Sempervivum Trough

Sempervivums or Hens and Chicks as they are commonly called, are an incredibly hardy, and drought tolerant succulent that can take a fair amount of abuse, yet when I was starting out on my roof, they were the last plant I wanted to grow. I’d come to associate them with the few that had been