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 […]
I hope everyone is enjoying these long hazy summer days. August is passing by far too quickly. In between entertaining family and out-of-town guests and keeping up on the garden and produce, I cherish the early or late afternoon walks through Fintry Provincial Park capturing the different light. The fields are covered in a large […]
Be Creative and Add Different Foliage to your Garden Design Gardening is not only about creating an array of colourful blooms which we all aim to achieve throughout the growing seasons. Using various kinds of foliage adds a whole new dimension to the garden landscape. When planning a garden I always look for trees, shrubs […]
I felt I needed to do a featured post on the Hydrangea Paniculata (limelight) which is starting to bloom in the Findleberry Garden. This is most definitely the shrub that stands out the most each gardening season and it has almost doubled in size since first planting it almost 3 years ago now. This […]
Vandusen Gardens While down in Vancouver entertaining friends visiting from the UK, we were fortunate to end up in Vandusen Gardens. It has been a while since I last visited these botanical gardens and as ever I am in awe of the majestic trees to the perennial flower beds and rose gardens. It is […]
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. […]
June Blooms As we move into June the garden is overflowing with flowers and everything has doubled in size with the weather going from high temperatures to downpours of rain. The rose over the front arbour is still putting on a good show although some of the flowers are starting to fade. The hanging baskets and containers are looking […]
So here we are already in June and Roses are the highlight of this month. When I was living down in the Fraser Valley I tended to steer clear of growing roses due to the many diseases they incurred as a result of heavy rainfall, i.e. black spot, rust, mildew to name a few. Now […]
As we reach the end of May the garden is fully flourishing and with the weather cooling off towards the end of the month there has been another spurt of growth. I was only away for a few days but I came back to all the peonies in bloom, at least 3 or 4 varieties […]