The French Needle Blog
Garden "les Quatre Vents" La Malbaie, Quebec
So I realize I am a really lucky duck. I first saw images of the glorious "Four Winds" gardens floating around Pinterest and could not believe they were from a garden in La Malbaie, Quebec province right where we were planning on spending a week. Then I read that they were only open a few days a year, but one of the days was during our trip. Then I went to make a reservation and was told it was booked a year in advance. I decided ...
the cumbrian way
Just back from a lovely ten days in the UK, lots of which was
hiking on (and off) the Cumbria Way in the Lake District of northern
England. Really sublime landscapes, flora and fauna (moss!!!) and the
all-important tea and scones.
We chose the "self
guided" tour which proved to be a bit much...from a navigational point..."through the field, past
the tarn, around the cairn"... and off the path we went. But over five
days we picked up some of the key words and mostly learne...
My Plucky Garden
Here in the Washington D.C. area, there are but a handful of days
when it is not too cold, too windy, too hot, too rainy, too humid, or
too buggy to be outside.For me, at least.
So, although I like to consider myself a “gardener”, my “gardening”
consists mostly of planting something and running inside to watch it
grow from the window.
As I don’t believe in pesticides or fertilizers, and I won’t wrestle
with the the hose, the plants that survive in my garden are really plucky plant...
