What a difference a day makes. Yesterday morning, there were beautiful frost flowers and ice crystals festooning the car, when I came out to...

(mist and ice on the tidal Habitant River, near Canning, NS) I just missed out on being a solstice baby, and came a bit too early for Christ...

Tis the season to be very busy, as we all know...here in beautiful upper Scotts Bay, we've been doing the usual pre-Christmas things, li...

(thanks to Kylee at Our Little Acre for cleaning up this image for me!) For those of you who read my column in the Halifax Herald, The Real...

Well, there aren't going to be to many blooms outdoors in my garden for this December issue of Garden Blogger's Bloom Day , created ...

Just over a month ago, I wrote a post about amaryllis , the same day I planted two new bulbs. I've long been besotted by these fabulous,...

Eight things that make me happy…Stuart of Gardening Tips n Ideas tagged me to play the ‘things I’m grateful for’ meme, so I’ve been mulling...

Tis the season to be really, really busy, both with deadlines and with other obligations leading up to Christmas. And wouldn't you know ...

Gardening is meant to be a pleasure, but sometimes, as with anything, we go overboard with it. We fall victim to the notion that we have to...

It's always dangerous for me to walk into local nurseries at this time of year. Not only am I highly susceptible to purchasing presents ...