(Yellow ladyslippers on the peninsula. Photo courtesy of Mira McNeil, APWPS) Nigh on 30 years ago, when I was a student at the Nova Scotia A...

Every now and again, there’s a truly perfect winter day up here on the mountain. Surprisingly, we’ve actually been having winter for five da...

Gnomey, the garden blogger at Kingsbrae Gardens in St. Andrews, NB, made a good point the other day. How many new cultivars of hostas, heuc...

Talk about the weather vagaries. First, we had a snowstorm a few days ago; not a terrible one, just your average Nova Scotian winter snowfal...

It’s a new year… …and as Babe Ruth would say, it’s déjà vu all over again. One of the earliest entries to this blog (now celebrating its fir...

Tired of wrapping, cleaning, baking, shopping, decorating? Then it must be time for a game of internet tag! My friend Charmian Christie who...

Time now for something completely different. We live in Scotts Bay, a tiny community at the end of the North mountain in Nova Scotia's A...

We have our live, green balsam fir Christmas tree up and decorated, and while we don’t go overboard with the interior décor, the house look...

It’s that time of year again…when we’re rushing around, madly trying to decide what to give as Christmas gifts to those near and dear to our...

Be warned: this is a bit of a rant. I’ve seen it all, now. I thought my friend Alice was joking when she told me she had seen blue poinsetti...

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...