Hardy plants for hardy souls
Are you familiar with the children's picture book Goodnight Moon? In it, a young rabbit says good night to all the objects in his bedroom as a way of settling down to sleep. Frost is predicted for later this week--I marvel that we've dodged the bullet this long--and I went around my garden to say [...]
We know it's summer when the frost-tender mosaic bird bath (pictured above) takes its rightful place in the front garden. That move from winter storage was delayed because I was attending the Garden Bloggers' Fling in Toronto. (There's a good story about the bird bath here.) All the usual suspects are blooming, so I'll just [...]
Feeding the birds is one of the most delightful things a cold climate gardener can do while she is waiting for the snow to melt and the snowdrops to bloom. No, wait--I take that back. Watching the birds flutter and feed and jockey for position at the feeders is delightful. Actually filling the bird feeders, [...]
It all started when Jenn said my new bird bath needed some phlox. "Gosh, she's right," I mused. "And I have some bright pink phlox in the front bed that I want to move out before I dig out the goldenrod infestation. Those pink phlox would look perfect by the bird bath." Bird bath transforms [...]
It's been a long time since I last published an entry. It was painful to be gone, and I'm glad to be back. Perhaps I'll devote an entry to my excuses, but for now I thought I'd share a few of my favorite things, culled from images taken while I was "gone."This is the bird [...]
I've wanted a birdbath for a long time, but most birdbaths I've seen just didn't appeal to me. They either seemed too crude or too faddish, and every single one that didn't look shoddy was too expensive. I really liked the classical good looks of this one, but it was $375 in an upscale catalog, [...]
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