A Week of Flowers 2025 – If It’s Friday It’s September

I couldn’t imagine a list of favourite flowers from the past season not including Colchicum autumnale – sometimes called autumn crocus, but not to be confused with Crocus sativus. The later is also called autumn crocus since it also blooms in the fall, albeit later than the Colchicum. It has a much smaller bulb, the […]

Silent Sunday – 1st Colchicum

Only afterour garden became a graveyardstrewn with shriveled leavesdid the white stem risefrom the hermetic bulb,displaying five lavender petals:Colchicum autumnale—a brilliant contradiction,out of phase, like an angelstrayed into Time, our world.- “Midwinter Notes” Lisel Mueller

My Favourite Fall Colour Combination

One of the first things I planted in my ‘Island’ bed after we purchased this property was a Pagoda Dogwood, Cornus alternifolia, that I dug out of my backyard in Toronto, where it had lived for just a year after being transplanted as a two food sapling from a friend’s property north of the city. […]