Country Gardener

It's no wonder my garden helpers call me eagle eyes. Last week while looking out the kitchen window, I noticed something strange on a cr...

This is how one part of the garden looked this afternoon. We had three nights of serious frosts over the holiday weekend, and the Sugar Tyme...

Here's my contribution to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. There are many more things in bloom than I have time to list. We have been for...

A couple of months ago Mark Disero, a rose enthusiast and fellow country gardener, who is practically a neighbor , contacted me about a two ...

Eleanor Perenyi, the author of Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden , published in 1981, has died at 91. Green Thoughts is the first gard...

May is on deck, which means dandelion season will be in full swing. In Ontario, traditional herbicides for killing dandelions, plus a host...

Southern Living magazine's Steven Bender, also known as the Grumpy Gardener , recently issued a challenge to 10 garden bloggers south of...

Did you know that the Canadian government's new Home Renovation Tax Credit extends to some garden and landscaping projects? You have unt...

Here's my contribution to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. (Head on over to May Dreams to see all the other contributions.) As you can s...

Twilight of the grasses from last season It was very cold yesterday, but dry, so the cutting down of our masses of ornamental grasses went a...