Wordless Wednesday I love the way Rudbeckia (also known as Black eyed Susan) buds unfurl as they prepare to bloom. They look like some kind of alien creature about to be born don’t they?

Join Last year I bought a Hydrangea plant for my garden. I think I bought it in August or September so it didn’t do anything last year except settle itself into it’s new home. I believe it’s an Endless Summer Hydrangea and it was definitely labeled as a *pink* hydrangea. It started to bloom about two [...]

Now that it’s July you’ve probably finished most of your major gardening work for the summer, unless of course you are in the process of doing some landscaping. However, it’s always a good idea to use proper body mechanics while in the garden to avoid injury to your back or other joints. Autumn will arrive soon [...]

Wordless Wednesday I managed to capture a photo of a wasp collecting pollen from Butterfly Weed flowers the weekend before last when Chris and I visited the Brick Works. I grow butterfly weed in my garden but it’s not blooming yet. Guess mine is behind!

Perhaps you’ve been wanting to do something different with your backyard this year. Rather than just doing the standard garden, you would like to do something more unique. After giving it some thought, you have decided that water gardening might be a unique concept. What is Water Gardening Anyway? You are met with confusion when you [...]

Join Last weekend we went to The Brick Works. It’s an old brick factory that’s been turned into an eco-preserve and I suppose tourist attraction. Likely the bricks that make up my 1927 Triple Brick house were made at this old now defunct factory. The quarry where the company dug into the earth to get the [...]

Wordless Wednesday Even the pigs are wearing rain boots! Isn’t that adorable?

Like many home owners we try to do some type of renovation or decorating project on our home each year, whether it’s to help maintain the house or to make a room more functional and beautiful. Many long term readers of this blog probably remember that we are completely renovating our home. We’ve been on a [...]

Join I’m nuts about roses. I certainly have enough of them growing in my garden to support that statement! I have 60+ rose bushes! Other than caring for roses and looking at their lovely blooms the next best thing for me is taking pictures of them. Especially ones like the photo above. Isn’t that rose [...]

Wordless Wednesday I’m not a very big fan of pigeons - I certainly had enough of them living on balcony when we had an apartment (that’s when i finally got to see a baby pigeon). There’s enough of them in this area too - swooping down eating the seed I put out for other birds … [...]