Winter Aconite
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Category: Flowers
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Click title to see full photo. Lotus in Bloom
I made my first visit to the Montreal Botanical Gardens about nine years ago. It was early August and the lotus flowers in both the Japanese Garden and the Chinese Garden Seven Things (Plus some extra fun things at the end)
I've been tagged for a meme. I don't typically do memes and i know this makes me a terrible meme not doer, but I swear my reasons aren't bitchy, just awkward.
For example, this current meme requires that I list seven random things about myself. Dear god, the
‘Chocolate Cherry’ Sunflower: Full Coverage
My mad love for the 'Chocolate Cherry' sunflower has resulted in almost daily mini photo sessions, capturing it at every stage of development and possible angle. I've come to realize that if I continued posting updates Underground Organics
I've been meaning to tell you about Underground Organics since back in the spring when buckets of their beautiful flowers first started showing up at my local weekly market, the Dufferin Grove Farmers Market.
Wild Front Garden
Check out this wild front garden I came upon yesterday afternoon. On just a glance I can identify a couple of poppy varieties, calendula, bachelors buttons (aka cornflower), cosmos, and a host of attractive weeds.
I just can't Unique Container Idea: Planter Cart
I came upon this shopping cart planter the other day while riding my bike along College Street here in Toronto. The planter sits outside a restaurant located at the corner of College and Clinton, perched up high And Then I Went and Spent $3.99 on a Viola
So here's what I did. First, I shelled out $3.99 for a viola. We're not talking your typical 4-pack of cells for a buck here. No, we're talking one plant. One plant that cost $3.99. One An Edible Bouquet: Chive Blossoms
I came up with this idea while on assignment for Budget Living magazine. The idea was approved but sadly the magazine folded shortly thereafter and I was never able to see this concept to fruition.
The editor A Pleasing Combination
I came upon this colour palette yesterday and had an instantaneous response to it. The pink flowers are magnolia and the red and chartreuse bush on the right is 'Goldflame' spirea (Spiraea x bumalda). Of It Turns Out That While Not Fatal, This Particular Disease Can Not Be Cured
I bought another box of pansies yesterday. This new batch falls primarily within a blacks, dark purples and reds colour palette. Some are frilly.
In case you are interested they are as follows: 'Panola Fire,' 'Imperial Antique Shades,' 'Frizzle Sizzle Mix' Early Spring Planting: Pansies and Violas
The weather here in Toronto these past few days has been unreasonably beautiful prompting a flurry of gardening activity on my part. My gardens never seem large enough until I have to clean them up. Monster Impatiens: Leading the War Against Humanity
FYI: This is what passes for an impatiens in San Francisco. If you live in a warmer climate you will be unimpressed by my discovery. If you are from my neck of the woods your mind will have been blown wide open! ‘Chocolate Cherry’ Sunflowers
I've decided to take the plunge back into the world of sunflowers. Anyone gardening in public space knows that sunflowers have a time-sensitive contract out on their lives beginning the moment they bloom. Their big Seedy Saturday Haul 2008
Another Seedy Saturday Toronto has come and gone and like last year I managed, with great effort, to make it around to a few booths and pick up some seeds. The event was more packed than ever this Forcing and Growing Colchicums - Freaky Bulbs That Are Actually Corms
I spotted bags of Colchicums, a fall-blooming bulb plant that looks a lot like crocus, while perusing the bulb section of my local garden shop a few weeks back. I've long admired the delicate alien beauty of
