SPRING! 9 May 2012 | 04:19 pm

We now have a variety of colours and blooms, the Double Flowering Plum is putting on a decent display (though not as impressive as the spring after we threatened to cut them down...) Here are a few I...

Up next - The Daffodils. 28 Apr 2012 | 06:22 am

The daffodils seemed to arrive early this year, I think they are my favorite spring bloom. If I could only grow 1 variety, it would be Cool Flame, the salmon coloured trumpets are so incredibly pret....

I'm back! With crocuses (or is it crocii?) 14 Apr 2012 | 06:12 am

I'm back!! After a long winter/blogging break, there is finally new growth to report on! Hope everyone is doing well, thanks so much if you've left my blog in your sidebar and are reading this! Happy...

Still Blooming 1 Oct 2011 | 12:38 pm

It feels like the garden is done for the year, but there are still a few blooms hanging on! Heliopsis has started to wane, but still has plenty of yellow blooms on large plants. Perennial Sage has re...

Wordless: 'Sunflowers' & others... 1 Sep 2011 | 10:51 am

Hydrangeas in White 19 Aug 2011 | 05:23 am

I really have an obsession with white hydrangeas, if I lived in a zone where blue hydrangeas grew freely, they would hold the #1 spot, but I am happy with these cool beauties. I think of them as 'late...

New additions, aka The list is getting shorter. 14 Aug 2011 | 09:13 am

I have been wanting to add a water feature for quite a long time, I finally found not 1, but 2 that fit with my scheme. One for the sunroom... and one for the garden. This free astilbe is growing be...

Midsummer Wordless Wednesday. 28 Jul 2011 | 11:30 am

Of Bells & Bedfellows. 13 Jul 2011 | 08:04 am

The bellflowers opened this week! Here is a white Carpatica, And a Blue persicifolia, bowing down to greet the fleabane daisy. Shasta 'snowcap' has also bloomed. Peachleaf bellflowers add such grea...

A Peony by any other name... 5 Jul 2011 | 05:38 am

..is still a Peony? Even with a plant tag, the first bloom is always a surprise. I have a few of questionable identity, This was labelled as 'Bowl of Beauty', but most of the blooms look more like 'So...