Trying to decide, this morning, whether to post about my readiness for Sunday’s BMO Marathon or to post photographs of a favourite cut-leaf maple, just getting ready to spring into fullness of flower and…
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Most of you, if you garden at all, or visit gardens, will know the ever-popular, oh-so-useful herbaceous perennial, Alchemilla mollis, commonly known as Lady’s Mantle. It’s a wonderful ground cover and/or filler, softening edges and…
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Splendid spring sunshine is on the forecast, but even last weekend, temperatures just moving into the low ‘teens, I got into the garden and couldn’t help responding to the colour, fragrance, and sheer energy of…
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Travel photos are an obvious form of memory, as mine of Barcelona. I wrote about another kind last week when remembering my mother through the flowers she’d planted in my garden. But here’s an exquisite…
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I hadn’t realized quite how forcefully I’d been holding my breath until I got home yesterday and the exhalation finally happened. A bit of space with Reading Break, although there will be meetings and marking…
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