Country Gardener

We have a two-acre meadow that was planted from seed in spring 2000 by Wildflower Farm. It's a mixture of North American prairie natives...

Sunflowers are a lot of fun to take pictures of. You can play with them in so many ways - up against the blue sky, as in my previous post, o...

Another one of the "happy accidents" in our garden are sunflowers planted by the birds. They pop up in many spots, particularly mu...

I enjoy glads as cut flowers, so each season I have a few growing in the vegetable patch. I've always read that gladiola isn't hardy...

I love happy accidents in the garden, especially when they're self-sown annuals that I don't expect to be hardy in my USDA Zone 5 ga...

Some gardeners swear by slip-on clogs, others wear old sneakers or a favorite pair of boots. I can't live without my trusty Australian-m...

Over the past couple of weeks, our barn swallow babies have learned to fly and have discovered the big world out there. Having barn swallows...

When it's hot and dry, plants suffer. But even gardeners get drought-stressed: I'm a bad case – drought makes me cranky and anxious,...

I've always strongly advocated garden mulch, especially for people with big country gardens. (We buy wood chip mulch by the dump-truck l...

I was out one evening recently taking flower photos, when I noticed something on our laneway. When I went to investigate, I saw that it was ...