Canadian Cottage Garden on 11 August 2025

  It’s 33 C. What’s great for the garden may not be great for the gardener.

    

A Tiny Garden on 2 August 2025

 

Located on the corner of Westminster and Nelson, this tiny garden brings happiness to many people who stop and admire the flowers and beauty. One of my favourites!

Monarch butterfly on milkweed

This Monarch butterfly was seen a few days ago, on 25 July 2025: the next day, on PBS, there was a programme on endangered animals, including the Monarch butterfly; it's worth planting milkweed to attract and encourage Monarch butterflies in their yearly flight to Mexico.

                

Vertical garden at Loyola Park

The "vertical garden" was opened in early June, it is a project of our local burrough; this is a garden for a small space, a vertical garden, a garden that grows upwards, and growing upwards it is expected to increase the amount of food possible to grow in this space. For weeks, maybe months, city workers laboured to make build the vertical garden located in the north-east corner of Loyola Park, and then it was done and it was announced. Photographs were taken. Food grown here will be donated to local food banks. These photos were taken on 11 June 2025. But now, a month later, the garden is still padlocked, so no one is walking in this vertical garden, and no one is picking vegetables grown there, it looks like nothing is growing there. With the amount of space they have to work with the city could have laid out some garden plots, there is probably a long list of people who would like the have their own garden. And what did this cost? I hear it cost around $190K, and you can buy a lot of turnips, tomatoes, and beans at the IGA a few blocks from here for $190K and not have to grow them yourself. 

Canadian Cottage Garden, 5 July 2025

 

The garden at St. Philip’s Anglican Church

Photos taken morning of 19 June 2025. A humid day with rain later in the afternoon.