A 50 year Anniversary Blog started August 2023, of gardening experience in a harsh zone three climate, daily challenges and successes.



All images on this blog are my own unless otherwise stated.

July’s glory is an abundance of flowers to admire and play with. I am still waiting for a few annuals to show their colours but keeping up with the snapdragons has been fun. I need to keep picking to keep them all blooming until fall. The beauty of this is that I have a few… Read more

With two family weddings this summer, I am trying to grow as many cut flowers as I can. I am hoping to have enough confidence to put together a few of the floral arrangements if not the bouquets also. Much depends on the weather through to the fall as one wedding is to be celebrated… Read more

To those of you in Europe I hope you cool down soon. I believe B.C is about to heat up although the soccer has a lot of the population heated up already! Read more
