A Few of my Favourite Things

April 29, 2011

Things are slowly coming along in the garden.  It seems to be at a slow pace this year, because we really haven't had the warmest of weather yet. 

A ray of light, after losing the majority of my crocuses to Mother Nature's little creatures, have been these two groups of spring bulbs.  The puschkinia and the scilla.  I will definitely plant more of these when the fall comes!


Puschkinia (Striped Squill)





Scilla (Bluebell, Squill)

Wordless Wednesday

April 27, 2011

Every Garden Needs a Tabbycat!

This is Hudson. We adopted him from the SPCA in 2008 and was a few years old at the time. We made up a birthday for him and we say he's five!

He's nine pounds of adorable. He's super affectionate and cuddly - a real 'people cat'. AND pretty darn photogenic, if I do say so.

As you can see, he's a brown tabby, with white paws. He's named after the explorer, Henry Hudson and the Hudson Hornet from the movie 'Cars.'

He loves to be outside with me. Since I don't want him to get hit by a car or caught by a fox, I taught him to be okay with being on a harness and tie-out and he is 'supervised' when we go out. I'm outside a lot in the summer, so it works out really well. 

Hudson's favourite activities, while out in the garden, include watching chipmunks, eating moths only to throw them up, and getting me to pick him up for cuddles.

Progression of the Front Bed

April 24, 2011

While we all wait for the nice weather, and something new to post about, I thought I'd add a post to continue my "My Garden's Progression" list in the sidebar.

This bed, at the front of our house had river stone mulch and four cedars when we moved in.  The cedars weren't in the best of shape and there was one lone hosta in there (you can't see it in the picture), but it still remains and has been identified as a 'Gold Standard'.  I love it.  You can see it in the front(ish) left of the third picture. 

We removed the stone and the cedars and replaced the bed with better soil, some more hostas and cedar mulch.

We added the limestone walkway in the fall of 2009 and planted it up with 'walkable' plants like Irish Moss and a couple of different types of thyme.  Lots more hostas were added to both sides of the garden, as well as some colourful plants like bee balm, monkshood and foxglove. 

The walkway leads from our front door to our garage.  We shovelled the walkway this winter, so I'm waiting to see how the little plants in between the limestone fared over the winter. 

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Bulb Stealer

April 21, 2011

So, it's a little bit hard to stay mad at these cute little guys. They carry off the little spring bulbs (but you never know, they may just plant them somewhere else).....

We got about 15 cms of snow yesterday (yesterday's blog entry photo was just the beginning of it), but it's all melting now. I can already see some new things popping up in the garden.

Happy Gardening!