The scent of spring

In every season, you’ll find many pretty things to see, hear, online pharmacy buy ivermectin with best prices today in the USA and even touch in the garden. But after a long, hard winter, the forgotten sense that comes back to life in spring is the sense of smell. My nose reminded me as I […]

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Good Morning Toronto! Let’s talk Peonies!

This week I had the pleasure of talking with Matt Galloway, at the CBC Metro Morning studio, about one of my favourite things: peonies. The link to the peony interview is here. Why am I a self-confessed peony nut? Well, growing ‘Festiva Maxima’ peonies was my first garden success. Waaay back, thirty years ago when […]

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Spring, season of fragrant trees and shrubs

Next time you walk down the street in May and wonder, “What’s that wonderful online pharmacy buy retin a with best prices today in the USA smell?” look up. It might be coming from above, and flowering trees and shrubs. These are just three. One of the underestimated smelly (in the best way) shrubs is the […]

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Hyacinths: She forced us!

Hyacinthus orientalis ‘Delft Blue’ – the camera turns it more purple than the soft blue of real life So glad I didn’t plant hyacinths last fall – or, rather, so glad I didn’t plant all of them. I held back six extra-fragrant ‘Delft Blue’ hyacinths from Botanus to try forcing. And now, when you step […]

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Garden Daytrip: Corpse flower at Niagara’s Floral Showhouse

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Sweets for the nose in November

The nose doesn’t have much going for it in online pharmacy buy zanaflex with best prices today in the USA the month of November. That’s why we treasure any little bit of sniff going our way. The smell of fallen leaves is always heady to me, especially sugar maple leaves (Acer saccharum). Then there’s the […]

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A Laneway Surprise: A Secret Rose Garden

Roses ex buy kamagra polo online youngchiropractic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/kamagra-polo.html no prescription pharmacy tend all along the fence. All driveways should be this lucky. Some gardens simply stun you, particularly when they sneak up on you unawares. I stumbled upon this garden gem while walking my dog the other day. Bored with the same old route, I’d taken […]

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Poem: Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

It’s th buy zoloft online bereniceelectrolysis.com/formvalidation/dist/html/zoloft.html no prescription pharmacy at time again, when walking through certain Toronto neighbourhood online pharmacy buy zocor with best prices today in the USA s fills your nose with the scent of the black locust tree. These trees are all around the city, originally planted because their hard wood was […]

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World’s Largest Lilac Collection (not at our house)

Set in the Arboretum of Burlington’s Royal Botanical Gardens, the Lilac Dell is bursting with early blooms in 2010, due to the unseasonably buy clomid online healthdirectionsinc.com/images/png/clomid.html no prescription pharmacy warm spring. The RBG boasts the largest collection of lilacs in the world, 800 species and varieties from around the world. At dusk, apparently the […]

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From the memory banks: Sweet Autumn Clematis

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a few things that got lost in the shuffle of the too-many-things-to-write-about growing season. One of them is Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora – also widely but erroneously known as C. ternifolia, it seems through a printer’s error shortly after its discovery in China; C. recta and […]

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Happy Easter (in September)

Surprise! This dried-up, former grocery store potted Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum) has borne unexpected fruit. Or flower. It was rescued from its way to t buy cialis soft tabs online hiims.in/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/cialis-soft-tabs.html no prescription pharmacy he green bin in the front hall of ma belle-mère (mother-in-law) this summer and plopped into a spare corner of the […]

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