Love the high intensity colour from the spikey blue prickly globes!  A penthouse roof garden that welcomes all the birds and the bees.

whispers New Dawn.

The rain makes The Garden sing – everything is glistening! A sumptuous shady location comes alive with lime green, mid-green, copper-orange, glossy and wet, ribbed green, ivory margins…

For a brief moment…

and then she was spent.

Marking the passage of time.

The culture of sharing is one thing I love about gardening. This David Austin rose joined the Garden Laboratory last year when it was gifted to me by AK. I look forward to seeing it bloom this summer in its new home next to an unlikely (garden) bed partner, an evergreen.

Victory! Just before the hard frost last fall, I planted the tulip bulbs. It was a good strategy. These tall white beauties escaped the usual urban critters. I think I will plant even more this fall…

An edible food source – who knew?

The red cones on the Acrocona Norway Spruce are visually arresting,
from my Garden Laboratory.

This daffodil blooms every day, ever month – all year long. It is impervious to squirrels and raccoons alike.