It's not an earth-shattering secret to declare that I don't like garden gnomes.  I resisted the temptation, some years ago w...

Well, it's been six WEEKS since I've updated here, but in my defence, life has been crazily busy, mores than usual. Between adopting...

What a wonderful few days I had on the road, talking gardens with fellow enthusiasts, photographing plants, cheering on fellow gardeners...t...

Once again I am madly charging along trying to catch up with the rest of the blogosphere, and have been absent without leave. Or is that wit...

The past few days since author Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists have been somewhat surreal, at leas...

It's been busier than life as this bee the past couple of weeks. Figuring I have had only a couple of days off in the past four months, ...

What do you do when it's too muggy to work in the gardens, too sticky to work in the house, and definitely too rainy to do much of anyth...

Okay, gardening peeps, I know it's hotter than the hinges of hell in much of North America--even in Nova Scotia--but I want to have a we...

It all began with 'Limerock Ruby' coreopsis. Remember when we saw that little charmer, with its reddish-rose flowers, and read it wa...

We have had a blessed, blessed amount of rain in the past few days, including a truly impressive drenching last night with a spectacular thu...