Country Gardener

In honour of the summer solstice, I made rhubarb custard pie for the garden helper crew today. It was not my finest effort: store-bought pie...

Well, we got a little rain today with the thunderstorms and cold front coming through southern Ontario. But these systems are pretty spotty,...

Every year we have four or five barn swallow pairs nesting in our small barn. We keep our gardening tools and mowers there, and as the swall...

This map (click on the picture to see a larger version), which I found on the Agriculture Canada site shows the areas of extreme dryness fo...

Yep, we've got drought stress . We're almost into the middle of the month, and the only rain we had so far - a thunderstorm last Fri...

I don't like dealing with pests and hate to spray anything, so mostly I tend to choose plants that are reputed to be pest-free. But, of ...

We finally placed another one of my husband John's carved stone pieces. It's a water feature made out of a piece of polished black s...

When it comes to drought, I don't know who suffers more, me or the plants. When it gets really hot and dry, I actually get what I call d...

It was a lovely still morning with an overcast sky and no wind. John had asked me to take some pictures of his rock garden , and this was th...

Spring-flowering shrubs seem to come and go so quickly that I think of them as fleeting moments in the garden. Luckily, these "moments...