With fall in the air, all gardeners’ thoughts turn to autumn planters – right? Like opening the closet to examine the state of our fall wardrobes, planning a container of autumn plants signals the change of season from the fun, but toasty days of summer, to the energizingly crisp cool days of fall.
Each year it [...]
Attention, home-grown garden designers. Canadian Gardening is running an online beauty contest for the best home and garden makeovers. This is a chance for all city gardeners to strut your stuff and show off your horticultural accomplishments. Even if you don’t think your garden is worthy, it’s fun to scroll through the entries with a savvy eye [...]
Growing vegetables in the city has become so popular that the University of Guelph has launched The Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. The one hectare market garden located in the northwest corner of the Arboretum offers hands-on, practical experience as part of part of U of G’s major in organic agriculture. Hankerin’ to be an [...]
No matter where I wander, I find city gardens with loads of personality. Nancyland in Portland OR is one of the best examples. Here’s a garden that grabs you by the eyeballs and says, hi, this is my world and I hope ya’ll like it.
Hold on tight, ‘cos your eyes will dart from the mosaic pebble welcome [...]
Hens are hot. That’s the message I came back with from a recent tour of the gardens of Portland, Oregon. People are blogging about them (see Dirt by Amy Stewart), gardeners are raising them in urban gardens and at one city nursery called Pistils, they’re selling exotic species like Silkens and Frizzle Cochins (these were [...]
170,000 pairs of feet tromped the grounds of the Royal Hospital in London’s posh Chelsea district, queuing for a glimpse of the 16 show gardens and 25 courtyard gardens that were the highlight of the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show, which celebrated 140 years. A showcase of all that’s new, innovative, and exciting in the world [...]
Gardeners seem to grow like weeds up on the Bruce Peninsula. In addition to all the fabulous gardens I wrote about in A Day (Or Two) in the Country, I recently discovered another beautiful country garden large enough to make a city gardener green with envy.
From the winding country road it flanks, My Heart Is [...]
In the summertime, there are two types of families: cottage people and stay-at-home city folk. Ours is one of the latter. On the May 24 weekend, we watch as the city empties out and wait for the blissful quiet to descend on the city. This euphoria lasts for a few weekends, and then we get [...]
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