At the end of the month Wildflower Farm presents ‘Grow Your Own Wildflower Meadow’ on September 24 at 11am. In the seminar Paul Jenkins, owner and co-founder of Wildflower Farm will be sharing his experiences and expertise on wildflower meadows. This seminar has always be a popular one and is one of our favourite to host, but [...]
Tag Archives: native plants
Moving Past Monarchs
August 9, 2011 – 11:16 am
Butterfly gardens, pollinator patches or honey bee havens. Whatever you want to call then butterfly gardens have been well explored in the garden and for many are well situated into the ’been there done that’ pile of gardening. Just a simple google search will illustrate how anyone with a shovel and a garden blog is a butterfly garden expert. [...]
Roadside Blooms
August 4, 2011 – 2:15 pm
Next to home and work the majority of our time is spent in the car. Even more so in the Summer when all we want to do is get in the car and go to the beach, cottage or the closest ice cream stand. So with all the time spent driving from one place to the next it’s understandable that a [...]
Garden Voyeur
July 6, 2011 – 11:06 am
As a gardener this is my favourite time of year; the time of year to be a garden voyeur. I love sizing up other gardens, mentally taking note of unique plant choices, combinations or design elements. A good garden tour will leave me not only feeling awed and envious but inspired and renewed. It gives me the pull [...]
Bliss Weeding
June 8, 2011 – 12:49 pm
Ok so it is hot … very hot and sticky. I can’t remember it being so hot so early, made hotter only by the not so distant bout of cool wet weather we had this Spring. This year it appears to be feast or famine with the weather, but don’t worry I am not going [...]
Wanted: National Wildflower Week in Canada
May 3, 2011 – 3:13 pm
It is National Wildflower Week in the United States. A week (May2-8) when the mighty wildflower is praised and adored across the 51 states, whether it be the Bluebonnets of Texas, the Pasque Flower in South Dakota or the Black-Eyed Susan in Maryland. They are revered for their ability to provide essential habitat and [...]
