During a marathon garden cleanup over several of the few sunny days we’ve experienced in November, I’ve managed to get two beds more or less...

Confession is good for the gardener’s soul, and I’m never one to shy away from admitting my gardening mistakes—whoops, that’s supposed to re...

That’s an often-heard prognostication made by Maritime weather forecasters, trying to justify all the science and computer generated models ...

Well. After four days of gale force winds shaking the house and stripping most leaves from trees and shrubs, the wind finally exhausted itse...

Nice to know that I'm loved--or at least, that some folks enjoy reading my bloggy wanderings. I've had several emails in the last we...

Well, that’s about how I felt on Sunday morning, after getting into Windsor late Saturday night. Nice surprise at the Hilton when I got ther...

High on my list of places you gotta go is the Royal Botanical Gardens , located in Burlington/Hamilton. What a great time I had visiting thi...

I’m a trooper when it comes to visiting gardens. After rolling into Toronto at nearly 11 pm, where the highlight of the trip was being met b...

I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I arrived in Ottawa, en route to visiting Kingsmere, Willam Lyon Mackenzie King’s estate, located...

Montreal’s second masterpiece It’s a fairly long bus ride through the congestion of downtown Montreal, from the Midtown Holiday Inn (where I...

If you’re going to be in Montreal in the next couple of weeks, you gotta go see Flora. If you’re not going to be there in that time, wait t...

You know how so many plants at this time of year are in shades of russet, gold, orange, carmine, and so on? These are all splendid colours, ...

Whether I like it or not, we’re being dragged kicking and screaming into the autumn. No matter that technically, there are about three weeks...

One of the writing projects I’ve been doing for almost ten years is a tiny monthly community newspaper called The Canning Gazette. It was st...

This is a non-gardening blog entry, so if you’re not into the sea, come back next time… Went to a press conference yesterday at Bedford Inst...