Tag: Garden Bloggers Fling
Algonquin Island Gardens, Part I
Algonquin Island is part of the Toronto Islands, which I wrote about in this post a few days ago. The Toronto Islands are a unique space, the largest urban area in North America without motor vehicles. In that last post we wandered around Ward Island, which has the flavor of a North Woods artist colony. …
Just Offshore from Downtown Toronto, Verdant Islands with Personality to Spare
Ward Island is part of the Toronto Islands, just a few minutes ferry ride from downtown Toronto, Canada. That short ferry ride transports you between what feels like one world and another. You leave the bustling hub of a city of 2.6 million people. You arrive in a place of small cottages and modest houses, no …
Pondside Gardens of Eden in Toronto
Three private homes in the Swansea neighborhood were the first gardens we saw in Toronto during the Garden Bloggers Fling. Swansea borders on the Humber River, Lake Superior (Correction: Lake Ontario – sheesh, for dumb), and High Park, one of Toronto’s largest and most popular parks. The first garden we saw made the biggest impression …
Snapshot from the Toronto Garden Bloggers Fling
June tulips on Ward Island, just a short ferry ride from downtown Toronto. More to come.
A Severe Case of Garden Withdrawal
On Sunday night I got back from a business trip that lasted seven whole days, meaning seven days away from the garden. And not just any seven days, but the seven days of that crucial last week of May when so much happens so fast. There is only one way to recover from a case …
A Grand Finale for the Portland Fling
So this is the last post I’m going to do about the Garden Bloggers’ Fling held in Portland last summer. Fittingly, it is about the garden that hosted the event’s closing reception. This was held at Bella Madrona, a five acre garden on the outskirts of Portland. The garden has been lovingly created over more …
Orange Makes a Lasting Impression
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may know that I like orange flowers. Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa), Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia rotundifolia), orange roses (‘Westerland’, for example), orange Zinnias, orange Asiatic Lilies, etc. One of the gardens we visited as part of the Portland Garden Bloggers’ Fling last July was that of JJ …
Great Gardens Make Good Neighbors, Part 2
Change of plans: this post will not be about Brent and Becky’s Bulbs catalog, but I will get to them in the near future. Instead I want to write about the garden of Linda Ernst, who has developed an inspiring garden that is linked, front and back, with that of her close friend and neighbor …
Great Gardens Make Good Neighbors
On the last day of the Garden Bloggers Fling we visited adjoining gardens planted by two close friends and neighbors, Joni Ernst and Linda Fuller. This was back in July, you may recall, in Portland OR. I like my own neighbors, but it would be a special kind of heaven to have the next lot …
Danger Garden: Fear Not!
Loree’s Danger Garden was another outstanding spot we got to see during the Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland last July. The name comes from Loree’s attraction to pointy, spiny plants. Danger Garden is planted in a style vastly different from my own, and yet I could see its creativity, elegance, and visual power. A number …
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