Country Gardener

Snowstorm today. Out with camera, snowshoes and dogs. These pictures are the result: © Yvonne Cunnington, Country Gardener

Some critter decided that today was garbage day. Time to rid the nest of all the debris of those Gourmet Escargots. I have my dog Toby to th...

Hepatica nobilis ©Photo: Marg Cousens Several years ago I wrote a piece for Canadian Gardening on the garden of Marg Cousens, who was the 2...

We had six inches of snow last night. Here's what the buried gardens look like. The view I get stepping out my door The four-square g...

January is Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and Nova Scotia garden writer Jodi DeLong has written an excellent post about it here . F...

Blooming this January 15 (can you believe the month is half over already) is this gorgeous amaryllis. This is its second flower stem. The fi...

I really enjoyed this post at Commonweeder about the January as a month of quiet after the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. I hop...

My resolution is to do less mowing this year. Don't know if I can keep it though. The trouble with an acreage is that the areas you don...

I love ornamental grasses, and one of my favorites, Golden Hakone Grass ( Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola') is the 2009 Perennial Plant ...

Today is winter solstice which brings the shortest day - and the longest night - of the year. The good news is that after this the days will...