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Over 25 year’s experience designing, planting and growing perennial plants
and gardens.
Welcome to GARDEN POSSIBILITIES!,
where we're not only passionate about perennial gardens, plants, and the
joys of gardening,
but also about gardeners - helping new gardeners
learn more about the fascinating and creative playground in our own backyards.
Through
on-site consultations, gardening
seminars, newsletters, and the articles here, my goal is to not only
create beautiful perennial gardens but to inspire
and inform gardeners about the endless creative possibilities even the
smallest patch of ground offers.
My specialty is designing
perennial gardens that go beyond the ordinary - from lower
maintenance front gardens full of drought tolerant plants and flowing
ornamental grasses, to rich overflowing flower beds full of colour and scent, or a
stately landscaped border of modern shrubs.
Browse
around the web site for lots of practical gardening tips, or email
anytime for more information on our perennial garden design and planting
services.
I hope you'll visit here
often in your quest for a garden that delights the senses and feeds
the
soul.
Evelyn
Wolf
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Outside
My Window
Updated regularly,
here's a few gardening tasks and notes
for
this week.
March
28th
2012
Here's an email
exchange between one of my clients and I yesterday. It describes
what many of you may be going through right now! Evelyn
" Hi Evelyn - So sad! My magnolia is all
brown this morning! I hope some of the buds will still bloom, but the
ones that had started to open our like burnt toast "
from C.
Here's my reply.
Not sure it offers practical help, but ...
" Hi C -
Yes - I haven't had the heart to take a good look at all
my shrubs that had flower buds expanding in the warm weather,
only to be zapped the last two nights by the extreme drop to
well below zero. I was afraid this would happen, but there
wasn't much to be done that could have prevented it. I was
actually thinking about your Magnolia recently and imagining how
beautiful it would be this year!
An early spring may seem like a great
thing, but in our climate zone it's actually very bad news for
this reason. I've been tracking the temperature swings in
March/April for many years and I've NEVER seen anything as
extreme as this. For a couple of weeks the 14 day forecast was
showing that it would stay above zero which meant this damage
would be avoided, but alas - that forecast changed last week,
and I knew it would be very bad news. All kinds of things were
well along their bud expansion and likely got badly hit.
Will some of the buds still bloom? Cross
your fingers! Each situation is different because of
microclimates. As I always say in my gardening classes, the
best thing to cultivate when you want to take on gardening as a
hobby, is a sense of humour and patience. Think glass half full
- maybe this means the Magnolia will bloom that much better next
year because of all the energy it saved this year! "
Evelyn
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