The First of My Seed Catalogues Have Arrived

We left on December 4 for our winter vacation, spending a couple of days in chilly Wisconsin before heading to our vacation home in the warm and sunny south. We returned home in the late evening hours on December 22. It was a wonderful break and while we could have stayed longer I wanted to be home to spend Christmas with the kids and grandkids.

There wasn't a lot to do in the garden at the

The Huge Weed at Our Vacation Home

We have lived in I beautiful Ontario, Canada most of our lives so we are used to gardening in Zone 6A. We know what is considered weeds and what isn't. Our vacation home is in US Hardiness Zone 9B. We bought it in March of 2010 but did not see it until May of 2010. The house had been empty for over a year so there was a bit of overgrowth. While we have become accustomed to some of the

Old Garden Gnome Taking a Rest

Old Garden Gnome Taking a RestSeptember 19, 2011
I love taking walks around our vacation home resort to enjoy not only the scenery and wild life but to get a bit of daily exercise. Being a garden gnome lover, I'm always on the look-out to greet other gnomes. I spotted this tire, old gnome taking a break from his gardening duties under the shade of a toad stool. He must have been working