Winter to Fall again Like most of us in the Okanagan BC I was most surprised to see snow arrive in early November. (Nov 2nd to be exact). As in my last post I thankfully did manage to move the bulk of the tender plants into the garage. I have two remaining tomato plants in the […]
I had planned on doing a few more garden maintenance jobs outside but the early snowfall beat me to it. I was aware that the snow was coming but didn’t expect the full extent of the snowfall. My husband and I just managed to get the tender** plants moved from the greenhouse to the garage. […]
October has been an exceptional month. It has been a month of beautiful sunrises and sunsets providing a range of colours from red to golden-yellow. In the Findleberry garden the hydrangea paniculata continued to put on a good show, however, sadly as the leaves fell I finally had to prune the fading flowers. I have […]
Basket of Spring Flowers, Crocus, Muscari, Tulips, Primula. So much to look forward to. I never thought I would be so happy to be writing these words “Welcome to March”. With having said that though we are still not over winter yet. Just over the weekend we had another snowfall. It is definitely time to […]
The Month of February – From Snow to Spring Blooming Flowers Hellebore Exposed, Melting Snow As I write my post today I was happy to see the sunshine and more particularly the snow melting in some parts of the garden. It is still difficult to imagine that just in a few weeks I […]
Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving. As ever I had way too much turkey but it always tastes so good along with all the trimmings. I spent a week looking after my grandkids and actually had them help me do some garden clean up from raking leaves to putting all the prunings from the hydrangea paniculata […]
Thanksgiving The scene over the last few weeks looks very different as the leaves continue to turn and the flowers begin to fade. There are still many bursts of colour including the geraniums in the remaining hanging baskets and those resilient rudbeckias. There are a few roses still blooming and the dahlia has flowered again […]
I always seem to start off with the same sentence but once again this month has just flown by. Interspersed with camping trips, wedding photography and the start of fall clean up there certainly has never been a dull moment. Within the last week I have seen a significant shift in the garden and in […]
As we head on into the month of July the scene is looking very different. Most of the rose blooms have faded and my husband has thankfully trimmed the climbing rose over the arbour as it does tend to get a bit unruly. There will be a second blooming though on most of my […]
As my girlfriend said to me this morning on our walk to pick cherries everything is happening all at once and you do not know where to begin first. I do agree that it does become a little overwhelming this time of year with keeping up the maintenance of the flower and vegetable gardens. […]