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• Some of the last flowers of Autumn

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 18:31 in Photography, garden, pink, seeds, Autumn, Green Thumb Sunday, roses, warm, garden buzz, salvia, new york asters, gts

  Join It was a beautiful weekend! I think we might have had a very late Indian Summer here in Toronto! The temps got up to 17 C or 63 F and tomorrow’s going to be warm for this time of year too. Of course, the warmer weather probably isn’...

• Just about time to put the garden to bed for the winter

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 21:20 in Photography, winter, Autumn, Green Thumb Sunday, chores, garden buzz, in the garden, pruning, sunflowers, tasks, garden maintenance, garden bed

  Join It’s hard to believe but November is here. It’s starting to get colder and the leaves are falling off the trees and my garden plants. It’s time to start putting the garden to bed for the winter. As far as gardening goes I di...

• Lawn care tips from Spring through Autumn

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 17:09 in lawn care, mowing, grass, home and lifestyle, bumps, mow, weeds, watering, roller, fungus, spring tasks, fertilize

  Now that Autumn has arrived and the garden is winding down it might be time to think about the health of your lawn. Here in Toronto there’s a ban on pesticide and insecticide use (not that I used them on my garden or lawn anyway as we are full...

• Lady Bugs Everywhere!

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 20:47 in garden, flying, gardening, toronto, shelter, Autumn, fall, insects, garden buzz, in the garden, buzzing, taking photos

  On Tuesday I spent some time outside in the garden with my husband. It was a nice Autumn day reaching about 16 Celsius (60 F) – warm compared to the last two weeks! My husband was busy fixing a storage area and I’d come outside to take so...

• Finally getting some much needed rain

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 17:16 in toronto, Autumn, rain, showers, home and lifestyle, heat, in the garden, dry, the neighborhood, no rain, weather related, cool weather

  I don’t know if your area has been affected by lack of rain, but I was just about to start doing a rain dance here in Toronto because it had been so long since we had rain. We went from sometime near the end of August until the 21st of Septemb...

• Summer’s coming to an end

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 21:05 in Photography, flowers, plants, Autumn, Green Thumb Sunday, home and lifestyle, roses, fall, raspberries, blooming today, garden buzz, blooming

  Join It seems that summer went by so fast and here we are at the second last day of summer! Did summer go by fast for you too? Well either way, the garden is doing well. Roses, daisies, Asters, Sedum and many other plants are still blooming. Even ...

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