Made in Montreal

You don't see many window flower boxes anymore. I remember my mother standing at her dining room window and planting flowers in the flow...

Casa Bella on Belmore Avenue, July 2021 I think of cottages as being cosy places and there is a lot to say in favour of being cosy. For year...

Echinacea or coneflowers Bee balm Day lilies Snowball hydrangea on the left, hostas in the foreground and background; this bird bath has giv...

My plan is to write about gardening here, it is one of the activities where I find real happiness. There is a lot of happiness seeing birds ...

It is not unusual to have snow in April, as we did this year on April 21. It is even possible to have snow in May which is why garden planti...

Nothing has brought as much happiness this summer as seeing birds in our bird bath. I change the water in the morning and then, later, the b...

This must have been 1997 when Noni Howard stayed with us at Casa Bella. Here we are at the side door with Noni. Maybe it was just...