Fifty Shades of Green

10/11/2025

Guerilla planted to***co two ways

06/09/2025

Curb appeal in action

05/11/2025

Halfway through a deep weeding of creeping bellflower

04/11/2025

Cut some young branches off of a corkscrew willow, bringing them inside to start rooting for transplant into my garden. Within a day, they started budding out

01/23/2025

I highly recommend this for all of my gardens. If anyone would be interested in adding this to their garden care package, please let me know

I used this compost tea for the first time two years ago on a new garden install, on absolutely sterile soil, and it has been teaming with seedlings, mushrooms and insects ever since. For the low-maintenace garden of your dreams, soil health is the most important consideration.

01/09/2025

Seneca Community Forest Garden, my design and implementation

12/31/2024

Happy solar New Year one and all!

Starting next week, I will be launching a new service for houseplant care and support. Message for details

10/12/2024

The City of Toronto has begun to ramp up retrofits of glass on municipal facilities to prevent bird collisions. This past month, a plexiglass barrier around an outdoor arena in Christie Pits Park was retrofitted with visual markers to help birds notice and avoid it.

This initiative was sparked by a local resident who contacted FLAP Canada for advice. We put them in touch with their ward councillor Dianne Saxe who then coordinated with the City’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division to promptly organize plans to install the dotted film.

This success story highlights the importance of collecting data and photos showing where bird collisions with buildings occur. By entering records into the Global Bird Collision Mapper birdmapper.org, they may then be used to inform evidence-based interventions.

Thank you to Councillor Saxe and the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division for promptly taking action in response to public input. Thank you to Ann S. for advocating on behalf of birds in their community.

09/22/2024