Well, I don’t know what YOU were doing last evening, but personally, I was having far too much fun. I was at the Kingstec Wine and Trees eve...

The first summer we were here at our new home, I dragged home a bellflower from some nursery. It was unnamed and not in flower—I don’t know ...

My socks are wet. I could take them off, and will in a few minutes, but mostly I’m reveling in the sense of wet socks and soggy sneakers (ev...

Okay, we're about five hours to the beginning of spring, when the sun crosses the line and we have Equinox. Woke up this morning to a ga...

Before I start rambling about plants, a little commentary on the weather this week. On Tuesday afternoon, I sat out on the back deck soaking...

Well, March is a week old, and we’ve had a whole year’s worth of weather in that time. After that lamblike entrance, we had admonitions from...

March has arrived, gamboling in like a spring lamb, first casting flurries around this morning like confetti, then bringing on a pristine bl...

"Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter; That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness"...

This is getting interesting. It’s been about three weeks now since winter rolled in, and it’s stayed cold; and with snow cover, at least up ...

I suppose it depends on where you live, whether the groundhog saw his shadow or not. Personally, I hope we have another six weeks of winter ...

(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...