Tea Party Gardening  After having a tea party with friends the other day (remember I'm Canadian, a member of the British Commonwealth, and we really do drink a lot of tea.) Having ...

Don't Spit Into The Wind  (this column originally appeared in my newspaper column in June 07. I thought it deserved more attention) :-)


Gardening is a great way to learn about ...

Peonies in my June Garden  The tulips are pretty much over for this year except for one clump of late ones that somehow crept into the garden. They need pruning and the garden needs ...

Container Garden Trials 2011  The container garden trials are all set up and running. Several different kinds of petunias, angelonia, begonia, euphorbia, marigolds and even geraniums ...

So Who Lives Here  OK - so put on your creative hats and give me your absolutely best creative answer to the pressing question, "Who lives in this house?"

:-)

Why Do Weeds Grow Faster Than Plants?  A while ago, I asked my newsletter readers why my weeds grew faster than my garden plants while I was away. I left home to a perfectly tame back yard ...

Birds out my Garden Window  I am fortunate to be able to live on an island that's famous for birding. We're on the migration route for summer songbirds and the winter nesting grounds ...

Growing Perennial Flowers for Renters  This blog post is courtesy of my brand new book that I'm currently writing. I thought you might find it useful this year; so I'm sharing it ahead of publication....

What the heck is a well drained yet moist soil?  How is it that garden writers can blithely write such potentially conflicting terms “moist but well-drained” without suffering a conscience attack?

Just ...

Taking Spring Cuttings of Geraniums 
Taking cuttings and getting "free" plants from them is a long tradition in the gardening world and almost as good a tradition as taking cuttings and ...

2 Easy Steps to More Organic Living 
If you’ve been paying attention, organic gardening has finally become very, very popular. Now that global warming is clearly here, we’re all being asked ...

Gardening Words  I’m working on a “word” project this year that has me intrigued no end. (Given I’m a writer, this isn’t all that surprising he says with a trace of delight)...

5 Easy Vegetables  I know you want it all

I know, I know you want to grow it all. :-) However, let me suggest you take a deep breath and consider the five vegetables ...

Why It's Good To Garden  Do you ever wonder why you garden or why it feels so good to garden?

There’s increasing amounts of research that proves that gardening is both physically ...

Landscaping Pictures  I've used these landscaping pictures to illustrate a few points about general landscape design concepts.

The frontyard landscape sitting area reminds ...

Interesting perennial flowers  Gaillardia is one of the longest blooming perennials in the mid-summer garden *if* you keep it deadheaded. Allow it to go to seed and the blooms slow ...

Vegetable Gardening in the North - My New Ebook 

I wanted to tell you about my latest project - Vegetable Gardening for the North - an ebook available from Amazon. :-)

I'm pretty pumped by having ...

Want an award for your bathroom?  This is so not-funny, I have to laugh. Garden Centers of America thought that having a clean washroom in a garden center was so important they’re going ...

Heads Up!  This is just a note to tell you I'm working in the backend of this site and rebuilding it. The site will shortly begin to look like my perennial plant ...

5 Easy Annual Flowers 

I want to enlarge on the notion of organic gardening and making a no-work garden this week. We’ve already looked at the basics of compost and perennials ...

Pictures of Potager Gardens  Creating potager gardens is a simple technique to brighten up the veggie garden and save some space for your landscaping flower gardens.

One of the ...

Flower Bulb Pictures of Interesting Bulbs  Having written a book about growing bulbs, I confess I love these little easy-to-grow creatures. While the spring garden tulips and daffodils are well ...

Garden Tour of My Trial Garden Bed 



This video was shot in 2009 while I was developing the trial gardens. This is essentially a 30x4 foot long raised bed filled with a very loose ...