How to attract butterflies to your garden06.19.08

Back in 2002/2003 when my husband and I landscaped our backyard and created our raised bed garden I’d wanted to grow plants that would attract butterflies and birds to the garden. I spent the winter researching plants that would thrive in my area and that would attract butterflies. If they happened to […]

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Tidying up the garden beds04.13.08

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Last week I said that it was such a nice day that I thought I’d go out and start cleaning up the front garden beds. Well I did. As much as I could anyway, given that there was still some snow on the lawn and in some of the beds:

Now do you believe […]

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Sunny days are back!03.12.08

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Well after all that snow and our long cold winter it’s finally sunny over here in Toronto!

It’s a nice change. It’s been so dark and gray the sun is almost like a special treat.
I was just thinking yesterday as I watched our puppy lying in the kitchen with the sun shining on her […]

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The sunflowers survived11.04.07

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Remember all those sunflowers that I had to chop down to only three feet in early September because I got a citation from the city saying they were too tall? Well, they lived after they were brutally chopped and they’ve continued to produce blooms.

I really thought the sunflowers would die after having half their […]

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