In my new obsession with picking the back fence (the fact that it needs to get built pretty quickly helps top of mind) I have mocked up a...

I am pretty sure my back yard is cursed - first the fence fell over in a wind storm, and we ended up replacing all 3 sides.  Then the n eig...

After all the searching, all the open houses, all the paperwork and signatures, you hear those magic words: "It's Yours."...

One of my favourite flowers in my garden are my peonies.  I am not sure when I crossed over to the peony side - I used to think of them as...

Sigh.  Just look at this lovely photo of my backyard last summer.  Lush and green, with all that gorgeous dappled sunlight through the lea...

Last year at the end of the summer, we dug out most of the Rose of Sharon trees in our garden (they are nothing but a big weed if you a...

  Our wee garden has produced quite a bit of food for us in the last few weeks!  The cherry tomatoes are like candy and the boys just lo...

You may have figured out by now that I am a bit of a flower nut (I am only just realizing the extent of it myself).  Although the weather ha...