Happy 100th Post!

Today I celebrate with you my 100th post. Several posts ago, I announced a 100 post give-away. I actually entered all your names in the drawing, all of you who have come to visit, since day one. And so with the help of Abbie's drawing method, I drew a winner too.

And the winner is, Gisela of Guildwood Gardens :) Congratulations Gisela!

Gisela is from Germany and now lives in Canada. She has transformed her property into a beautiful garden. She also loves cats, especially her Maximus. Aside from being a gardener Gisela is an advocate for the environment. She passionately promotes the cleanup of the Canadian Shoreline and closely follows the emerald ash borer threat. Her husband and son are for sure, proud of her.

Gisela has become a friend - I want to honor her also for her friendliness and for being so helpful to a new gardener like moi. More on Gisela here, here, and here.

With her permission, I would like to show you highlights of her garden.




All photos owned by Guildwood Gardens


For comments on her garden, please visit Gisela at Guildwood Gardens.

Thank you everybody for everything!

The Big Receive

Thank you all for your visit and latest comments. I will update you on my '40 matter' after i go to the doctor. No worries though, because i feel fine :)

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Hello, all!!! A few days ago, as I was getting my toddler ready for breakfast, I got a phone call from my DH. At his new workplace, there is a very nice woman who brought a bag perennials to work. Dear husband was a lucky recipient. I spoke to her and she said that in the bag are daffodils, blue grape hyacinths, evening primrose, crocus (if I heard her right), some ornamental grass and my dream pink coneflowers !!! Yay!!! I WILL find room for them in the garden.

And room for all my growing annuals, and poppies, lavenders, and....

What an awesome random act of kindness for an eager new gardener like me :)

Here are the latest pictures of my patio bed. It's boring and a little empty after I trimmed the ornamental grass and the mums.

BEFORE (last winter)

AFTER

AFTER THE BIG RECEIVE

And now for the not so good news, I will end this post showing you that a c-r-e-a-t-u-r-e comes to visit when I'm not looking. Grrrrr..... and this is the first time ever that I planted the bulbs. 75% of the bulbs in the bag were planted in my back bed boo hooo

I feel so helpless that I had to write Fredo the Owl at Garden of the Month. I asked for back - up!!! I am not bad to animals, so please, dear something rabbit?, don't eat my plants, please? There's so much food elsewhere...

Oh well, the gardening mistakes of a beginner!

Post # 97: God and Man in the Garden

In June last year, I had the pleasure of visiting a few private gardens in the area. Here is a previous post that talks about my first Open Gardens Day visit.

Come with me, let me take you to these beautiful gardens of peace and joy. I dedicate this post to all you garden lovers out there, with special mention to Cielo of The House in the Roses.

Thank You

Hello friends, I want to thank you all for your kind comments and for all your visits since I started my blog. It is great to know you all and to share with you. As I near my 100th post, I want to start celebrating by sharing something beautiful with you.

My blog was born out of my discovery of gardening, and it is only apt to celebrate it in a garden. Here are pictures of what's blooming at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in my hometown. We went there today, and I was in heaven.

Desperate Gardener

Hello all...

Remember the seeds I was going to grow? I set them indoors. I started so many annuals, maybe a hundred poppies, or 50, etc. etc. Yes, I got carried away. Call it spring fever, or whatever you want... I set too many of them together that they are starting to tangle up.

So tonight I tried to separate and save as much seedlings as I could. Then I turned our breakfast nook into a greenhouse.

My sweet DH, saw all of it, and lucky me, he's just happy for me.