… to craftygardener.ca The drop down menus or the search box will help you find what you are looking for. I’m busy amalgamating old posts and deleting really old ones. If you come across something that isn’t there, please don’t … Continued
Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir is a delightful children’s book from best selling author Mike Martin. Princess Sophie loves Christmas, but this year she feels that special Christmas feeling is missing in Melodica where she lives. The worst thing … Continued
Wow already the 15th book in the Sgt Windflower series, written by Canadian Mike Martin and set in Newfoundland. It seems like just yesterday I read the first book and connected with Mike. It is a series I love and … Continued
Marigolds are a long blooming annual plant. The plant is a native to Mexico and there are numerous varieties to choose from. They are easily started from seed or can be bought from the garden centers ready started. They come … Continued
I adapted an idea for bottle cap flowers and made some magnetic sea glass flowers using up lots of white sea glass I have collected over the years. I have a can opener that removes the lids so that neither … Continued
I took advantage of a cooler day and made a potato and ground beef casserole in the oven. This was a recipe from yummakers, a site I follow on Instagram. Ingredients are all naturally gluten free: First was to take … Continued
I can still remember the first day we saw a cardinal in the backyard all those years ago. He kept coming to the back window and looking in. It would fly up and down the window and then perch again … Continued
I love the spring when the perennial iris blooms. There are a few different varieties in the gardens from the early blooming mini purple to the mid height yellow to the tall purples, maroons and yellows. Each has their own … Continued
On May 25, 2024 we had a pair of downy woodpeckers at the peanut feeder with yellowish feathers. The first photos taken about 11 am by my husband show a male downy woodpecker. I didn’t see the bird at this … Continued
Do you have Dame’s Rocket in your garden? and do you mistakenly call it phlox? I thought we had wild phlox but after lots of reading and searching of garden books and the internet it was discovered that we have … Continued
P is for Poppies. The seedlings pop through the ground in April. They are little hairy leaves that grow quite quickly. Those green fuzzy heads start popping up in early May. They are quite fascinating to watch as they slowly … Continued
Every gardener should have a flower press to preserve the beauty of their flowers. Did you press flowers in the pages of books? and add more and more books on top of them for added weight? But what happened when … Continued
My collection of books by Mike Martin grew to one more recently with the addition of the book Better Safe Than Sorry, the 14th book in the mystery series about Sgt. Winston Windflower. Sgt. Windflower is now the community safety … Continued
We love it when we spot a new visitor to the garden. On Sunday October 13, 2012 around bird feeding time (between 4:30 and 5) a red bellied woodpecker was spotted on the peanut feeder. There was just time to … Continued
Lily of the Valley is an early blooming spring plant that can be very invasive. It will soon be poking through the ground and growing after being dormant all winter. The shoots poke out of the ground about the beginning … Continued