Tulipa humilis ‘Lilliput’
Last fall, once the summer annuals had died off, I began the process of dividing up the right side of my garden into smaller beds separated and accessible by paths. While I managed to move a few...
View ArticleRecently in My Garden + Assorted and Sundry
It’s that time of year where so much is going on in the garden, I can’t keep up. I LOVE it! Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Two types of mint, pink snapdragons, and a geranium in pots. I set these pots on...
View ArticleBringing Potted Plants Indoors
I’ve been hurriedly bringing all of my frost-sensitive houseplants indoors for the winter in a mad rush to beat the season. As always I am doing it at the last minute rather than drawing it out slowly....
View ArticleA Succulent Oasis in My Office
We shuffled all of the remaining houseplants inside last Friday just before the hard frost returned. And so began the arduous process of stuffing potted plants into windows and underneath lights in...
View ArticleBarry’s Magical Cyclamen
Barry’s cyclamen have begun their yearly emergence from dormancy and his small, cold greenhouse is alive with them. My own few pots of Cylamen coum (gifts from Barry, of course) have also begun to...
View ArticleOffice Pepper 2013
I elected to overwinter one pepper plant this winter, a mild “hot pepper” variety called ‘Trinidad Perfume’ (I purchased mine from Solana Seeds.) And wouldn’t you know it the darned thing up and made a...
View ArticleFame Flower: A Colourful and Tough Succulent that is Perfect in Pots
Colourful flowers that sway and jitter on wiry stems, Fame flower (Talinum calcycinum) is another example of a rough and tumble, easy-grow plant that is disguised as delicate and fragile. Rather, it is...
View ArticleSucculents Galore (and More) with Avant Gardens
All photos in this post are credited to Avant Gardens. As a gardener with particular tastes and interests that border on obsession, it’s always a treat to meet someone who shares the same enthusiasm...
View Article6 Hardy Succulent Sedums for Your Garden and Pots
I am always on the lookout for drought tolerant plants that will thrive with little effort through my region’s paradoxical climate (hot summers and cold winters). Cold hardy sedums were a trusted...
View ArticleGrowing Summer Bulbs in Containers with Dugald Cameron
I believe it started with a small pot of Albuca shawii, a diminutive yellow flower that dances on thin stems in the breeze. It’s delicate leaves and stems are slightly rough to the touch and they have...
View ArticleGrowing Bay Laurel in a Pot
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) is a Mediterranean tree whose leaves are most famously used as a flavour boost to soups and stews. I bought econo-sized bags of...
View ArticleA Window Box of Succulents
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.I’ve been a succulent enthusiast since the start. They are easy to care for, can be crammed into small spaces, and they come in a wide range of alien-like...
View ArticleMixed Succulent Container
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.I went all out for succulents this year and had some fun putting together a range of containers using tender plants. I live in a colder climate where tender...
View ArticleGrowing Amaryllis with Dugald Cameron (+ Giveaway)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.Each Autumn, big, beautiful Amaryllis bulbs show up in stores alongside spring blooming bulbs. And every year I hesitate, full of guilt about the indulgence at...
View ArticleHomegrown Ginger Root from a Pot
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.It’s already mid-December and I have finally got around to harvesting what remains of the ginger root (Zingiber officinale) that I grew in a container in my...
View ArticleAmaryllis ‘Rio Negro’
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People.Just in time to bring some colour into a painfully cold and white world, the amaryllis ‘Rio Negro’ bulb that I potted up in late November is now in full bloom....
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Herbs and Edible Flowers Growing Workshop
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Next Saturday I’ll be giving a presentation at Plant World in Etobicoke, Ontario (in the suburbs of Toronto) on the topic of Growing Beautiful and Edible Herbs...
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How to Test the Germination Rate of Your Old Seeds
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. I love to buy, collect, save, and trade seed, but I have to admit that I do not go about it in a particularly organized fashion. While I am careful about where...
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Grow Write Guild #26: The Physicality of Gardening
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. I’m a week behind in posting a writing prompt. I came down with some sort of plague that knocked me flat out cold and it seems to have overlapped with the...
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4 Hardy Succulents for Your Garden & Pots
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. This past winter was a particularly cold and difficult one. I lost a number of plants and there are several others that have come out of dormancy looking...
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