In My Garden

You know those annoying folks who spend hours and hours in their garden, staring at plants and weeding, talking to flowers?  Yeah I'm now one of them.   

I have inherited a gardener's garden.  I can't take any credit for it, but people in my hood have walked by to stare at the garden and tell me how pretty it is.  It's not perfectly manicured but more on the crazy English wild side.

Fall Garden 2010

Bleeding Hearts

Tulips

Poppies (nearly yanked these out before they bloomed!)

As my friends know,  I spent years working with Mark Cullen producing his gardening shows for HGTV Canada and his segments on Canada AM.   But I never really had a true  garden of my own to play with until now.  This Spring and summer, I've been trying to bring up all that knowledge I learned about compost, soil acidity and how to keep raccoons from eating everything in site. 

Oh the glorious peonies

So what's the biggest lesson I  have learned so far?   Just because it looks like a weed, do not yank it out!   I already came  close to ripping out all my poppies because of their ugly leaves which looked weed-ish to me.   Ditto for my Daylillies.  I removed quite  a few of these because of ugly foliage mistaken for weeds.


Anyway,  each week something else arrives.  It's like the gift that keeps on giving!