Gardens
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Zone 4b Already established by the time we’d moved into our first house, May 29th, 2007, it includes a few scattered plants edging the driveway, deve...
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Back Border (Along Fence) garden
Zone 4b Already established by the time we’d moved into our first house, May 2007, it extends from a large rooted maple, follows a boundary fence, or...
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Zone 4b Already established by the time we’d moved into our first house, May 29th, 2007, it extends from the street to a large rooted maple about mid...
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Back Border (Far Corner) garden
Zone 4b Previously a slightly built-up area of bare earth, I am developing it into a woodland garden. In the fall of 2008, I planted 4 hostas (which surviv...
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Back Border (Maple Roots) garden
Zone 4b Tucked away midway along our back boundary, among the roots of a maple tree, it’s not quite a secret, but I do love to put interesting little...
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Zone 4b A nice little garden that came with the house we bought in 2007, I’ll be transforming it into a little wonderland that I, my husband, and our...
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Zone 4b While this year (2010) I’ve managed to get nearly all my plants in the ground in timely fashion, I’m still left with a few that will ha...
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Zone 4b After a youthful trauma with annuals in my garden, I’ve avoided them like the plague. However, in honour of my mother’s passing and her...
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From the long surviving (and long-suffering) dracaenas, a prolific variegated spider plant, to the misguided chia pet, and now some funeral plants,...
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Zone 4b Begun before we moved into the house in May 2007 as a foot-wide border that surrounded the deck. The only plants were 3 hostas flanking the two ste...
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Zone 4b Already established by the time we’d moved into our first house, May 29th, 2007, it includes 1 medium-large Mugo Pine at the northern house c...
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Zone 4b Already established by the time we’d moved into our first house, May 29th, 2007, it includes 2 medium-large Mugo Pines at either house corner...
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Frontyard (Red Maple bed) garden
Zone 4b Created over Fall/Winter 2008-09 through fallen leaf overlay, and dug up summer 2009. Enriched and mulched spring 2010. Planted by my dad for my bi...
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Frontyard (Street corner) garden
Zone 4b Created over Fall/Winter 2008-09 through fallen leaf overlay, and dug up (a little) summer 2009. Still to be enriched, planted and mulched spring 2...
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Frontyard (Top of Bank) garden
Zone 4b My property is on a hill, facing downslope (NNE), and about 15 feet back from the main street the ground slopes up to the house. At the top of this...
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Zone 4b A small way to honour the inhabitants of my garden. They contribute as much as any plant or flower, even though only two will be growing along with...
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Zone 4b I originally thought to call this “Interlopers in my” garden, because a weed is all in the eye of the beholder, and I don’t mind ...
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