Canadian Cottage Garden,15 August 2025

 The garden, a year ago today.

A tiny garden on 01 August 2026

This garden is on the corner of Nelson and Westminster Avenue in Montreal West; over the years I have stopped many times to admire this garden as have many other people. "Tiny garden" is what small gardens like this one are referred to. The owners must be proud of what they have created.

In the garden, two videos

Made with my IPhone (the way many/most people make videos these days), about two weeks ago, in mid-July 2026.
 

Canadian cottage garden, two videos, 12 July 2026

 

Two new videos of my Canadian cottage garden...

Canadian Cottage Garden, early evening

 Photographs taken on 05 September 2025, around 6:30 p.m., as the days are getting shorter.

Canadian Cottage Garden on 25 July 2025

A Tiny Garden, 13 May 2025

I always enjoy seeing the tiny garden on the corner of Nelson and Westminster. A work of love, this garden is always perfectly maintained. Here are some photos of the garden taken on 13 May 2025.

At the garden centre, 6 May 2025

Vincelli’s Garden Centre is long gone but we still have,  locally, the Reno-Depot Garden Centre on rue St-Jacques, and this is where I was on Tuesday, 6 May 2025. A good selection of flowers but nothing extraordinary. I bought three hanging baskets at a reasonable price (each $14.99 plus tax) and I plan to return for two or three more; I could plant hanging baskets myself but then there is waiting for them to be as mature as these baskets already planted and purchased by me. There isn’t a lot of gardening time in this climate. 

This brings me happiness

22 July 2024. There is a feeling of peace sitting in the garden. Well, that should be obvious, I guess . . .  but it isn't. Here we sit with the comings and goings of insects, butterflies, and birds, here we sit on a summer day, mid-afternoon, our presence isn't needed, the insects, butterflies, and birds have work to do. Now honey bees visit the garden, you didn't see many of them a few years ago. If the climate is changing, and it seems to be, then let it stop at this. We never had snails before, up to last week we had many snails. And cardinals are now seen and heard everyday, even in winter we have cardinals, and they were few and far between just a few years ago. Now I hear and see them everyday; what happened? On the news it is said that they are plentiful (while other birds are diminishing in number) because there are so many bird feeders in Montreal. Really? I wonder. Let's not spoil things with politics, even though it's difficult not to drop a few comments, but if you want peace, turn off the radio, turn off the TV, leave your IPhone in a drawer, be with nature.