Tag: gardening
Common Ground – The Drought of Early Summer
Here on the Ganaraska Savannah, the drought continues. We have had barely an hour of rain in the past month. Out on the brown and dry front lawn the domestic version of the African…
Misadventures in the Spring Garden
Is that supposed to be some sort of artistic statement? What is that? This from my neighbour looking at a miscellany of terra cotta pots grouped in one of my flower beds. It actually…
Silver Creek Creations Joins the Millbrook Farmers’ Market
Get ready to grow with the help of Jane and Peter Martell of Silver Creek Creations, who are joining the other vendors at our local monthly market. They established a nursery business on their…
“Our gardens let us dream about the future…” Anna Pavord
By Jill Williams I have a quotation from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind on my bulletin board in the kitchen that I have been glancing at all winter “O wind, if winter comes,…
International Clematis Expert to Share his Expertise with Garden Club
Peter Keeping is clematis enthusiast and an internationally renowned expert on Clematis. Along with his wife Sheila, Peter operates Peter and Sheila’s Country Garden in Bowmanville, Ontario. He was introduced to the species in…
Common Ground: Practical Gardening Tips from Jill Williams
©Deborah Carew I often get asked to recommend gardening books that are practical and useful for gardeners in this community. At the top of my personal heap of useful books are all the Harrowsmith…
Getting Ready for Winter
Lorraine Hughes The last few weeks I have been preparing my vegetable garden for the winter season. This is my third season and I still feel I am learning a great deal; this year…
All too soon…?
September 2015 Get Out! In the fields the goldenrod is already past its prime; the purple of the New England Asters is no longer as glowing; and the leaves of the ash trees are…
Can You Tell the Difference Between Ragweed and Goldenrod?
Ann Berkeley One local landscape gardener admitted to the Times that he could not tell the difference between ragweed (bad) and Goldenrod (good.) He is not alone. Another gardening enthusiast, Wendy Olsen, of Millbrook…