The garden tour letter for this week is I.
One of my favourite pieces of garden whimsy is Inuky. I actually have two of them in different parts of the garden. This was my creative way of using up some old bricks.
![my brick Inuky at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/inuky-new-home1a.jpg)
The traditional inuksuks are made from rock and are stone monuments used by the Inuit as a marker for special places, interesting places, marking trails or location of food or people, navigation, or migration routes of the caribou.
![iris varieties at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/iriscollage2a-1.jpg)
Iris plants of different sizes and colours are next for starting with I. My favourites are the mid sized yellow iris that I received as a gift from a Brownie pack many years ago. I’ve also got some gorgeous tall yellow ones that came from a school garden where I worked.
![impatiens at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/impatiens1a.jpg)
Impatiens are a wonderful shade loving plant. They were used to fill out the tipsy pots. In my effort to have less maintenance in the garden I did not assemble the tipsy pots or tipsy buckets this year. I miss them but don’t miss the watering of them (almost daily)
![incarvellea delavayl at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/Incarvillea-delavayl1a.jpg)
Next is a plant called incarvillea delavayl which was a tuberous root that I purchased at Canada Blooms a few years ago. It’s a tender perennial in my area so at the end of the season I dug it and stored it in the well cupboard where it is dark and cool. It is actually a hardy gloxinia and sometimes called a Chinese trumpet flower. This is another plant due to the digging and storage that isn’t grown this year in the garden.
![indigo bunting at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/indigobunting6a.jpg)
We look forward to the indigo bunting passing through the garden in spring. What a gorgeous blue colour.
![icy photos at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/icy1a.jpg)
Winter scenes of the garden provide lots of icy photos. It sure changed the look of some of the garden art and plants. It is lovely to photograph but I hate driving when it is icy. Now I’m retired it is something I don’t have to do.
I discovered the letter I while out and about.
![finding letter I at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/i3a.jpg)
I’m adding to my personal alphabet with the letter I for this week. In case you haven’t been following along, here is my list so far.
- A – accepting, active, adaptable, amicable
- B- bird watcher, book lover, British by birth,
- C – crafter, Canadian by choice, cat lover, cheerful,
- D – determined, decisive, dependable,
- E – energetic, easy going, English,
- F – friendly, frugal, fastidious, forthright,
- G – Granny, gardener,
- H – helpful, handy, happy, hard working,
- I – imaginative, inventive
![the gardener side at craftygardener.ca](https://craftygardener.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/garden.gif)
Alphabetical posts A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
My series on Alphabetical gardening
Margy
You have so many imaginative things in your garden. I like the inuksuk. – Margy
David Gascoigne
Your garden is creatively done and I am sure provides lots of enjoyment. Soon you will be preparing for winter.
Myrtle
Hello Linda time for alphabet I this week. I always enjoy your Alphabet week. I miss my tipsy pots, no more. I wish that blue Indigo Bunting would come by here, so pretty.
ABC Wednesday
Gardens are Always so different and that makes them interesting
Have a heartwarming en splendid ABC-Wednes-day / -week
M e l o d y (team ABC-W)
Jennifer Jilks
You have an amazingly green thumb!
Su-sieee! Mac
Until I read about the daily watering I was ready to plant impatiens in the shady room of the backyard. Even though the experts say we’re not in drought, the population in our area continually increases so I continue to be stingy with water.
Roger O Green
The brick guy is really handsome!
Margie
I’m not ready for the icy images yet!