Aldona at Large: Celebrations, Ruminations, Exhortations
Ah, my cherubs. If you weren’t at last week’s Holiday Open House, you missed a darned good party. Luckily, your trusty scribe was there and can bring you up to date. Above, our Director of...
Ah, my cherubs. If you weren’t at last week’s Holiday Open House, you missed a darned good party. Luckily, your trusty scribe was there and can bring you up to date. Above, our Director of...
This week we’re racing around then resting up in Ireland, congratulating a good friend on a big award, and celebrating my two new adopted “babies.” So fasten your seatbelts, because I’m hot...
My heart is full. The staff and I are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support—both monetary and written—that we have received in response to our financial plight and our Hearts and Flowers...
Today we must detour from Ireland to a much darker, colder, uglier place. That place is called Financial Dilemma. “What the heck is happening at the TBG?” Yet again, this registered...
“You’ll find your car in berth number eight.” Bleary eyed from the overnight flight to Dublin, I made my way out to the lot, expecting to find a modest compact. So you can imagine my...
It’s not every day that a world-renowned gardener will offer to make you a chicken sandwich, but Helen Dillon---the Dublin-based author, broadcaster, plantswoman extraordinaire--- is that kind of...
When it comes to food, I’m a goat. I’ll eat pretty much anything. I don’t believe in limiting my options, so despite having the greatest respect for vegetarians and vegans, I’ve never been...
Last Tuesday, I drove out to Landscape Ontario in Milton to participate in the judging of their Awards of Excellence, the winners of which will be announced at the upcoming October Expo for the...
Talk about juggling their priorities: Japanese beetles are nature’s true multi-taskers, seemingly able to eat, bonk and defecate at the same time. Right now, they are munching away (um, among other...
Talk about triumph over adversity: planted only this spring, the coneflowers in our new parking lot are blooming their fool heads off, despite the severe drought we’ve been experiencing and the...
