Happy birthday to the best country in the world, Canada, my home and native land! To celebrate Canada Day, July 1st, here are a selecti...

 We all have plants that give us challenges. The dry-soil loving perennial that pouts at cold wet clay soils. The blue poppy that wants e...

It's been quite a while since I participated in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, and since I have a new plant obsession to talk about, migh...

For years I have been very fond of certain primulas, also known as primroses, and sometimes as cowslips, although those are a particular ...

It happens to the best of us, it really does. We dig up a plant that we think is dead, not realizing that it's just a slow starter. W...

 I'm back! It's been a busy, busy two months, what with Saltscapes Expo in late April, all the nurseries kicking into high gear, a...

Blue is the rarest of colours in the flower world, which is probably why true-blue flowers like gentians cause people like me to ga...

With spring slowly starting to makes its tentative arrival in Atlantic Canada, there are signs of life at many local nurseries. So what I...

 One of the many hats I wear (and my favourite one) is being part of the Saltscapes magazine family. Saltscapes is all about life in Atla...

Back when I was a student at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, my room in residence resembled a miniature jungle. At one point, I had...

 Depending on where you live in North America, yesterday's Groundhog Day prognosticator either saw his shadow or didn't (yeah, I k...

 Resolutions are meant to be broken, aren't they? So it seems, which is why I resolve never to make resolutions, even about something ...

Suddenly, it's 2014. A new year, a new month, an (almost new) season...of winter. In the past three weeks, we have had an amazing n...

 I'm back, did you miss me? Probably not, if you follow along on Facebook , on Twitter , on Instagram , on Pinterest ...or on the som...

 It's little more than an hour until Autumn arrives in Nova Scotia (local time for the autumnal equinox, 1744, or 5:44 pm if you only ...

 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...

I have a good excuse for why I haven't posted recently--I've been too busy planting containers, planting perennials, making a gar...