March 2013 – Gardensavvy

Basic watering for Toronto

Advice and inspiration — March 13, 2013May 25, 2023

Toronto summers (June-August) tend to be very hot and dry. We need to provide extra water for almost all plants during the summer months. This has overwhelming ecological benefits! … Read More

Early Hellebores

Winter garden — March 13, 2013May 25, 2023

I know of nothing more heartwarming in the garden than the emergence of the Hellebores in spring. Often before the snow has completely melted, the bloom-stalks of Hellebores are poking through and encouraging us to enjoy our gardens again and spend time with our reviving plants. … Read More

Garden Journal

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Lost Horizons farewell

Inspirational nursery, treasure trove of botanical diversity, enticement to garden adventurously, vendor of plant delight. With much appreciation, thank you!

Early Spring Pleasures

When bees come to visit the earliest flowers, I know that spring is truly here. … Read More

The Lowly Spirea at its Loveliest

Even the lowly (because ubiquitous) spirea can surprise you with loveliness on a blustery day in April. My main complaint is that it has too many merits, requires too little of us, which seems churlish just now, when spirea is the first shrub to leaf out most bravely. … Read More

Spring of 2020

Galanthus, more commonly: snowdrops, are one of the earliest garden pleasures in the year, often breaking through the snow long before February is over. And now in mid-March they are still looking splendidly sturdy. They are a welcome sign that spring is indeed progressing and that renewal can happen. Again. … Read More

Garden reading

Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) is a book that will astonish in its subtle weave of forms of knowing our world and in its homage to the generosity of the plants that surround us, made us, and can save us. … Read More