Front Garden Makeover, Before

June 28, 2011
Front Entrance Garden

Graham and I have decided it’s time to make some changes to the front of our house. In particular, the stone stairs and garden need to be overhauled. There are two very overgrown hostas in the front of the garden, and a daylily is sprouting in the centre of one of them, the result of [...]

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Durham Integrated Growers Hosts Community Garden “Open Gate” Day

June 27, 2011
Community Garden

Durham Integrated Growers (“D.I.G.”) is hosting and promoting an open day for the community gardens in Durham Region! The self-guided open garden day will take place on Saturday, July 16 from 10:00 to 2:00. Participating gardens include: Maple Tree Garden in Cannington Valley Plentiful Garden in Pickering St. Andrew’s Park Garden in Ajax Whitby Ajax [...]

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What’s Blooming? Poppy

June 24, 2011
Unknown Pink and White Poppy in Bloom

One of my favourite flowering plants in our garden is this beautiful poppy. I don’t remember the name of it, and I really should dig through my unwieldy collection of plant tags to see if I kept the one for this beauty. The blooms are so short-lived…I watch the buds closely each morning as they [...]

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Vegetable Garden Project: Colourful Tomato Stakes

June 23, 2011
Coloured Tomato Stakes in the Vegetable Garden

I’ve already shared my love for the new-fangled, brightly-coloured tomato cages that I’ve seen in the garden centres around town. What I don’t love about them, however, is the price tag. I have ten tomato plants in the garden this year, not including volunteers. At $9.99 each, that would be about a hundred bucks in [...]

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Love at First Sight

June 22, 2011
Asiatic Lily 'Tiny Padhye'

Have you ever fallen in love at first sight…with a plant? I would normally completely agree that at first glance this is a silly question. However, it recently did happen to me when I fell in love at first sight with this Asiatic Lily, ‘Tiny Padhye.’ I saw her at Kingsway Greenhouse, where she was [...]

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