June in the Garden
What is so rare as a day in June?.
June comes with its treasures and its chores.
Treasures:
- Clematis in full bloom
- Oriental poppies that bloom at the same time as purple alliums
- Irises in all their glory
- Daisies just beginning
- Baby robins in the garden
- The first blooms of the pond lilies
Chores:
- Getting all the plants that I bought planted!
- Trying to keep up with the weeds.
- Once more grappling with a Trumpet Vine that won’t give up.
- Reclaiming a plot that has become a bit wild.
Jottings contains some articles I've written for the monthly newsletter of Barrie's Garden Club and other projects. I did the newsletter for 6 years and have quite a collection of "fillers." I also write just for me. What better place to share them than on my own site. I hope you enjoy them.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. -- Margaret Fuller
This is a collection of neat ideas and crazy tricks that I've collected from various sources. Many are amusing, and most are useful. We gardeners just love to learn neat little ways of doing our gardening jobs more effectively. My most popular talk is just that: "Hints and Tricks."
Most of the hints I've used myself or know someone who will vouch for them. All of them are fun to read and almost as much fun to do.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.-- Carl Sagan
This is a miscellaneous section of all the odds and sods of information I've collected and would like to share. I've found most of the information in magazines and on the internet or in the many gardening books I can't resist buying!
You'll also find some of my favourite links on the Gardening Info page.
Be sure to visit the OHA conservation site: Conservation & Environment Committee.
My Garden
This section includes pictures of my small urban garden along with photos of the plants in that garden. This is a show-off section. Remember --gardeners don't take pictures of their gardens unless they look good! My garden is lovely, but I admit that it's not always as good as it looks in the pictures I choose to display!
I'm really more of a plant collector than a gardener and love the new or the unusual. Because the garden is small, I change plants often. Over the years, I've had quite a collection of the good, the bad and the ugly of garden plants.
The garden and digital cameras complement each other. Between my husband, my son-in-law and me, we've taken hundreds of pictures -- too many for a web page. But I've put up some that I like and hope that you enjoy them, too.
