There’s nothing quite like it! In any season, the graceful weeping “umbrella form“ of our native elm trees is unmistakable, and visible from miles away. Baltimore Orioles love building their hanging nests in them.

Heading up to Wasaga Beach for another eco landscape installation with Grow With Us Landscaping. These views on Airport Road always get me. Just wow!

Do you have to garden under acidic soil conditions? If so, why not pick up a copy of my co-authored book. Makes a great Mother's Day gift!

Hey friends! This Saturday, May 4, I'm interviewed by #GayleMacDonald Gayle MacDonald in the The Globe and Mail on biggest plant mistakes and surprises. Check it out!

Hiking with #ShawnPatille and SustainableMilton in Lions Valley (Oakville). Found this Erythronium albidum. Very rare and lovely!

THX to Reds Garden Centre for donating the mulch/pebbles/river rock for our Master Gardeners of Ontario rain garden workshop!

Awesome to work with such community-minded companies! If you haven’t been there, check them out. They have AMAZING plants! 

Heads up! The box tree moth caterpillars are already out and feeding. Saw many yesterday in Burlington down by the lake. We’re going to be replacing those ones with a mix of species, including Golden Oriental White Cedar and Brown’s Yew.

Something we don’t think enough about are the pretty early flowers of native trees, like these Red Maples (Acer rubrum)! Great for early pollinators AND lovely fall colour to boot!

Look who’s blooming in my lawn! This little beauty is Labrador Violet, and it is food for a lovely little butterfly called the Meadow Fritillary. A diverse lawn is better for wildlife.

Not often you get to prune something like this Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar, especially when it’s when you planted back in 2011! 😁
(Oakville)

We are at UofG Arboretum creating a rain garden for the upcoming #MasterGardenersOfOntario conference – very exciting! Feel free to ask questions in the comments and I will do my best to answer!

My ‘Appetite for Gardening: Incorporating Edible Plants into the Traditional Landscape’ speech has been very popular this year! I will be delivering it Thursday (April 18) to the Tottenham Horticultural Society at 7:30 PM at 139 Queen St. N., Tottenham. Hope to see you there!

1 of 2) You probably know my belief that one should never sacrifice beauty when designing a goal-oriented landscape (rain garden, Fusion, veggie, etc.). That’s why I created my ‘Appetite for Gardening: Incorporating Edible Plants into the Traditional Landscape’ speech.

Our new rain gardens are really working hard, catching surface runoff before it takes its nutrient load to our pond, causing excess algae. Simple since we put them in the centre of the drainage swale, using the excavat to build a shallow berm, slowing it/soaking it in.

One of the earliest - and weirdest – spring flowers. This is horsetail.

Another upcoming presentation... This time I'm at the Thorndale Horticultural Society and we'll be talking about 'Blooms for Birds, Bees And Butterflies' - an informative talk, and I think we ALWAYS have fun! Come say hi! :-) Wednesday, Apr. 17 at 7:30 - 15 Church Ln, Thornhill

Tuesday, Apr 16, I'm speaking to the Georgetown Hort Society - 'An Appetite for Gardening: Incorporating Edible Plants into the Traditional Garden'. A popular talk with a lot of traction.
7:30, 11 Guelph St.. See you there! (Think about joining! They're a fun and vibrant group!)