blue oat grass
(photos by my awesome brother Dave!)
garden (with house attached) for sale!
I can’t believe I’m saying this but my garden – and house – are for sale! We’re in a great location in Glamorgan, quiet street within walking distance to Mount Royal University, shopping and major bus routes to downtown, University of Calgary, and more. Bonus – lots of worms and other beneficial soil organisms are included, plus we get minimal hail!! 🙂 Know any gardeners who would like to snatch this up?
http://www.calgarysrealestate.ca/listing/c4076562-121-gloucester-cr-sw-calgary-alberta-t3e-4v4/
The Front Entry Garden:
The Back Shade Garden:
The Butterfly Potager:
The back lawn, surrounded by the Back Shade Garden, the Adventure Garden, the Herb Garden, and the North Patio Garden:
The North Patio Garden:
And the vegetable garden:
daylilies and hydrangeas
a lone red lily that the hares didn’t eat back in spring
daylily ‘Strawberry Candy’
sun shower on the Back Shade Garden – 3 different views
sun shower!
hot colours in the Butterfly Potager
Coming around the side corner of the house, this is your view:
Come closer!
What’s blooming (click on photos for captions):
a mix of crocosomia, raspberry bee balm, and purple phlox
nasturtiums and more in the window box
England (the veggie garden) in early August
I’m enjoying beets, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, parsley, zucchini, and kale these days, how ’bout you?
The view from the herb garden:
And some close-ups (click for captions):
Snap peas, Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, and my first Early Girl of the seaon
scarlet runner beans in front of sweet peas
Dom picking his potatoes
dwarf zucc. perfect for small gardens!
beets ❤
To see this garden at other times of the year, click here and scroll down.
morning light
Do you plant your ornamental grasses where they are backlit in either the morning or evening? You should!
what’s growing in the Herb Garden this year
Here’s the Herb Garden in its second year. I also took a picture from a ladder so you could see everything better:
Across the back are my husband’s potatoes, which we are just about to start harvesting. There are some sweet peas behind them but they got shaded by the potatoes so I’m not sure how well they’ll do. Also growing at the back but not flowering just now are red orache, chives, and french tarragon. Just for fun and to keep the blue theme going, the circle is edged with festuca glauca.
Flowering right now is thyme, oregano, scarlet runner bean, nasturtiums, and self-seeded arugula as well as Stella d’Oro daylilies and Goldflame spirea (pink). There are also two dwarf zucchini plants tucked in behind the daylilies – we’ll see how big they eventually get but so far they are very well-behaved.
Calgary Garden Coach 