If you want a sweet smelling plant that will attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden you should have some bee balm. These plants thrive in the sun and will happily spread fairly quickly to give you a lovely … Continued
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
Purple hyacinth beans or lablab purpureus. This is an ornamental, annual vine that I grow for the lovely flowers and coloured beans.Plants like full sun and will grow well on a south facing wall. Soil should have good drainage. The interesting … Continued
How do you grow plants in the garden where the soil is so compacted or rocky that it is hard to grow anything there? I tried using bottomless pots like mini raised gardens which allowed me to fill the pot with good soil … 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
Pole beans are great for growing in small spaces as they train really well to grow up a pole or trellis. The seeds were planted May 11. By May 20 they were sprouting out of the ground. Two little leaves … Continued
Bleeding hearts or Dicentra are wonderful shade loving plants that grow really well in my north facing shady garden. Another name for this plant is Lady’s Locket, and it is easy to see how it got that name from looking … Continued
S is for Scarlet runner beans. The scarlet runner beans, Phaseolus coccineus, are a vigorous vine that grows really well up a trellis or a teepee of bamboo poles. Each vine will grow upwards of 2 meters. These are popular beans … Continued