Yesterday Judy and I returned from a visit with our friends Carol and David, who live outside Baltimore. On the last day of our visit Carol drove us the 90 minutes to Longwood Gardens in southeast Pennsylvania. As we approached the visitor center I noticed some people planting bulbs. This is a sight that always …
The Meadow Garden in late October. Flying home tomorrow. More after we return.
Judy and I are visiting friends who live outside Baltimore. Yesterday, they drove us to the Gettysburg National Military Park, about two hours away. This is the view from Little Roundtop, where one of the pivotal moments of the battle occurred. The park is quite sprawling, reflecting the large area where the struggle (which involved …
After viewing the small private gardens of Cabbagetown, Garden Bloggers Fling participants were treated to a more elevated horticultural experience. Which is to say, we visited the green roof at the Hugh Garner Housing Cooperative. The Coop is a nine story building with 181 apartments. Not as charming as the surrounding red brick rowhouses, perhaps, …
Another memorable experience from the Toronto Garden Bloggers Fling back in June was our tour of Cabbagetown gardens. Cabbagetown is a neighborhood east of downtown Toronto. Originally home to Irish immigrants so poor they grew cabbages in their front yards, the area slid into a long decline before gentrification began in the 1970s. As is …
So let’s travel back in time to early June and the Garden Bloggers Fling in Toronto. I’ve done a few posts already about the Fling (this one and this one about the Toronto Islands and then this one about Swansea), but I’ve been holding most of Judy’s photographs in reserve for when our own garden was …
This is our second post about Glen Villa, which Judy and I visited at the very end of August. Glen Villa is the garden of Pat Webster, located in Quebec about 90 minutes southeast of Montreal. Pat writes the blog Site and Insight, which recently received a Silver Award from the Garden Writers Association. The …
During our trip to Quebec we were delighted to be invited to visit Glen Villa, the home of Pat and Norman Webster. Theirs is a big property of 750 acres near the small village of North Hatley, about 90 minutes southeast of Montreal. Pat writes the blog Site and Insight, covering topics related to art, …
Why are public markets so much more fun than a supermarket? The produce is at least a step closer to the farm, I suppose. But more than that, there is a color and bustle, a liveliness, that is infectious. In Montreal, we love to visit the Jean-Talon Market, in the Little Italy section on the …
l;ksadj;;lkd After experiencing the Chinese Garden, Judy and I ambled through a large area known as the Flowery Brook and Lilacs. This has not only a brook, but also two large ponds almost covered with lily pads at the very end of August, when we were there. There were a number of birdhouses set up …
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