It's late August, somehow--after a slow, cool start to spring and summer, things have become rather hot and dry in the past couple of...

It's been a long time since I did a post for Wildflower Wednesday, and it seemed like a good idea to pop up a post about one of my ...

I remember there was a time when I thought I didn't like the colour yellow. Maybe it was because of the awful lemon-yellow of painted...

It was hugely, bitterly ironic that last week was National Pollinator Week in the USA; the same week in which thousands of bees were kill...

It's no secret to regular readers of bloomingwriter that I am hopelessly addicted to coneflowers. They've been putting on a show ...

Mostly wordless, except to invite gardeners to join the discussions at bloominganswers.com And warm thanks to all who have already joined a...

Hard to believe we're into the latter part of October already, isn't it? The days are so much shorter now, and of course windy, ofte...

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...

I'm back! Amazingly, after the assorted cold, wet weather we had in May and June, I didn't expect we'd have three fantastic days...

It's been quite a while since I posted here, but I think the reasoning is pretty obvious to most fellow gardeners. June in Nova Scotia h...

Well, I'm baaaccckkk! Vast improvements in the weather coupled with a need for a bit of a break have kept me in the gardens and away fro...

One of the regular signs of spring in Nova Scotia is the annual Saltscapes East Coast Expo , a celebration of the best of Atlantic Canada. F...

Although much of North America has been revelling in bulbs for weeks now, we here in cool-spring Nova Scotia are just really getting going w...

It shouldn't be at all surprising that TS Eliot is one of this English major's favourite authors, and The Waste Land one of my favo...

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. ” Henry David Thoreau

As we stagger through the seemingly interminable ordeal that is winter in Nova Scotia, it’s sometimes hard to remember what our yards looke...

(Hepatica nobilis (liverwort) flowers in spring. Followup note, Wednesday: I think we'll be continuing the discussion on natives fo...