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:

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

first nasturtium salad of the year – yum!

more photos of honeysuckle and roses in the Butterfly Potager

Welcome to the Butterfly Potager!

the honeysuckle glows with morning sun when viewed from the back

John Cabot rose on trellis and honeysuckle on arch later in the day

And click for close-ups:

close-up of honeysuckle

Columbine

blooming honeysuckle vine

This was supposed to be Scarlet Trumpet honeysuckle when I bought it, but was obviously mislabelled.  The orange-yellow flowers are not the colour I expected but they are bigger than Scarlet Trumpet.  Anyone know what it is?

an unknown honeysuckle growing over the arch and hopefully, (eventually), hiding the downspout.

John Cabot rose in the Butterfly Potager garden

John Cabot in the Butterfly Potager garden

close-up: John Cabot

red peony in the Butterfly Potager

I love the colour, but unfortunately this one isn’t scented.  My fabulously-scented pink and white ones will be blooming soon though!

red peony in the Butterfly Potager

red peony in the Butterfly Potager

the Butterfly Potager in May

Close ups, below (click for full size): Purple Sensation allium, blue centaurea montana

Ornamental alliums in front of golden hops.

Centaurea montana

To see this garden at other times of the year, click here and scroll down.

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2016

In the interest of keeping a better online garden journal, I’m participating in Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day this year.  You can find a link to many other April gardens at the main Blooms Day post at May Dreams Gardens: http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/search/label/garden%20bloggers%20bloom%20day

…but a warning to my fellow Calgary gardeners, view them your own risk.  It can be a bit depressing, especially at this time of year, to see how far our growing season is behind almost everyone else’s!!

Above: the patch of daffodils in the Front Entry Garden started blooming April 10.  Daffs are great in my unprotected front garden because the hares don’t touch them – unlike tulips and many other things!!

Above, clockwise from top: Mixed squills in the Front Shade Garden; chinodoxa in the Back Shade garden; striped squill in the Back Shade Garden; a growing patch of blue Siberian squill in the Butterfly Potager.

Above: the honeyberries in the North Patio Garden have also been blooming for a week now.  I appreciate them for being the earliest blooming  and fruit-producing shrubs in my garden!  They are perhaps not the tastiest of berries but great mixed with other things such as smoothies. My kids love ’em.

the Butterfly Potager in September

Beebalm is blooming in the Butterfly Potager right now (above), plus petunias and nicotiana in the window box (below):

To see this garden at other times of the year, click here and scroll down.