Gardens, Home, Recipes, & Stories
My five favourite colours combined are teal/turquoise (aka bluey green), red, orange, purple, and pink. They are happy, vibrant, and create a cozy homey boho feel when combined. These five colours are repeated all throughout my home and deck in varying shades. I want to carry a repeat of these colours throughout my garden too… Continue reading Building Our Bright Colourful Garden
Last year when Mr. B was laying out a new gravel path up to our house on the hill, we decided to remove all the grass in the Plum Garden, create more garden beds, and add a circular gravel path. My favourite fruit is nectarines, so we invested in a hardy dwarf nectarine tree sapling… Continue reading Overhauling the Plum Garden Layout
One of the things I've been learning lately on youtube garden university is when to prune different perennial plants & shrubs. Apparently (according to Floret Farm on Youtube) the best time to cut lilacs for a bouquet is when the blooms are about 50% open, and the best time to prune a lilac is when… Continue reading Pruning & Bouquets
For as long as I can remember, I've always hated yellow flowers. The one request I had when my wedding bouquet of Gerbera Daisies was being made was NO yellow! Ironically the day of our wedding the backdrop to our photos was a sea of yellow flowers, but I didn't mind in the end, as… Continue reading Homage to Buttercups
A few years ago we started investing more time into growing a variety of plants for our pollinator garden, and a selection of trees we love. I keep a gardening journal in a spreadsheet here. In Spring of 2025 I started experimenting with seed starting in my little window ledge hydroponic growers (LetPot & Aerogarden)… Continue reading Plum Hill Garden on Youtube
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