The garden tour this week shares what’s in the garden starting with B. One of my favourite spring blooms are the bleeding hearts. This perennial plant loves the shady north facing gardens. The plants get very big and are covered … Continued
~ I have had a whimsical bottle tree in the garden since 2014 and it has gone through a few changes. The original was a lilac tree that just decided to stop growing, so I trimmed it to become the … Continued
Whether we like it or not, winter is here till almost the end of March. We moan about it, we curse it, we hate it but we should be looking for the delights of winter. It’s time to be more positive … Continued
After just a day or two the bottle tree has a new home. Remember that it came down on the weekend and I found a temporary place for the bottles? The vines got cleared away and the trunk with branches … Continued
This morning saw the end of a garden area in the garden that has been going for two years. The bottle tree came down. However all is not lost as I found a new home for the bottles till something … Continued
Have you ever visualized a garden project and then had it look just like you thought it would? Last year I could see the bottle tree covered in morning glory vines and looking ‘glory’ous. Right now the morning glory … Continued
One of the garden projects last year was to create a bottle tree using an old lilac bush that for some reason stopped growing. The branches got trimmed back so they would hold the coloured bottles.
… and now it’s a bottle tree bean support! One of the lilac bushes didn’t survive the winter and even though I talked nicely to it, trimmed off some broken bits it still didn’t give off any buds. So … Continued