As the Garden Grows

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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 […]

On Monday afternoon and into the evening we finally got around to cutting down / trimming our Sunflowers as per the notice that we received from the city last week.
Last Tuesday or Wednesday we were given notice that our Sunflowers that grow in the boulevard in front of our house were causing an obstruction and […]

JoinCan you believe we got a notice today that we’re breaking a city bylaw?

I have to cut down my beautiful sunflowers! We got an official notice stating that the flowers in the boulevard are overgrown and must be cut down to 0.92 meters (3 feet) by September 12th. The notice doesn’t say what […]

Wordless Wednesday

I took all of these photos in early September. The garden was looking magnificent at the time.

The heat of summer was calming and we’d been getting enough rain that combined with regular watering all the plants were in fine form.
The flowers- from left to right - are a gorgeous pink cactus dahlia, […]