Spring really, truly is finally here and I’ve been taking every opportunity to capture it on film. This photo of a crocus cluster was taken in my garden using a homemade pinhole camera I constructed from a broken camera and a pie tin. Check out these planty pinhole photos taken in a greenhouse by Andreas …
The first signs of spring are slowly making their way to the surface in my garden.
Guest post by miss gard(e)ner Inhabit Hardiness Zones 5 through 8? Ready to start your growing season? The much anticipated moment has arrived. Planning Keep the following in mind when planning your garden: Climate: What grows well in your region? Space limitations: How extensive will your garden be? Domestic habits: What would you like to …
A few weeks ago I went for a “desperate to escape the misery of winter” excursion to the Allan Gardens Greenhouse here in Toronto. Click here to see a panoramic photo I shot in the glorious Arid Room. The thick trunk seen in front [right] is a GIANT pachypodium. They actually cut the spines down …
Last Saturday I attended the Seedy Saturday event here in Toronto. The turnout seemed to have grown since last year and of course so did my purchases. Where I will be gardening this year is up in the air so I have tried to hold back on making any plans, decisions or purchases. But who …
Guest post by Jeffery W. Petersen Relax. The rules of gardening were made to be broken. Yesterday, I had a cup of coffee with my neighbour who does not garden because she feels she doesn’t know enough. She mows. She weeds. She hides out from her garden when she doesn’t want to do these things. …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Winter is the malady, while flowers, blessed flowers, are the antidote.” I am suffering from late-season gardening. It’s a disease that I’m sure must be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) next to bipolar illness. It starts every year in mid-July and builds until by September I …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Hang on tight. Because it appears that foliage is the new flower.” It’s winter, and I’m hibernating like a big old bear in my cave (which, thankfully, comes equipped with a fireplace and a martini glass), but I’ve still been keeping one ear twitchng towards fads, and let me …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “You still grow annuals?” I was visiting a friend’s garden and I happened to mention that I’d forgotten to thin my annual poppies, so now I was in jeopardy of losing the entire dell, and my friend, he of the upscale collector garden on the nice side of town, …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Fine Gardening commissioned an article on poppies, and they wanted to fly up to Vancouver to photograph mine.” Joy and I started gardening with one proviso: We could garden our little hearts out, landscaping and tilling every inch of our 120 foot by 33 foot lot into beds and …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Doesn’t anyone just take it easy anywhere at any time anymore? Pass me a beer. I never studied Latin. I just want to grow plants.” I’m that frustrated, really. I’m climbing a braid of tangled clematis like it’s Rapunzel’s hair. This one’s a Clematis montana (what’s the story with …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “…we had plenty of expensive, susceptible, fragile exotica that needed winter protection.” It was August. And then it was September. We’d put in a whole lot of tropicals and sub-tropicals and still hadn’t solved our winter storage problem. Which was stupid, since 16 months before we’d bought a lotus, …