Grimsby Gardens - Beautiful August Gardens

I wonder why there aren't garden tours in August.  There certainly are beautiful gardens.  This one is in Grimsby and has a wonderful display right now.  We see red Crocosmia, yellow Rubeckias, pink Echinaceae, and the soon-to-flower Sedum.  The wonderful architecture of the house and the pretty metal gate are the perfect setting for this beautifully designed display. 

So this garden tells us that August is a perfect garden month.  Besides the beautiful flowers in the garden, we might plant Day lilies and Hydrangeas.  They are perfect right now.  If you enjoy the Oriential Lilies, they scent the air and fill the garden with their large blooms in bright colours.  There's a beautiful array of yellow and gold in August - Helianthus, Helenium, Coreopsis, Yarrow and Rudbeckias.  There's a lot of  pinks, whites and lavenders with Phlox.  So there is a lot of floral colour in the garden in August.  

Usually, though, we have a bit of brown in our lawns.  This is not the case this year.  Everything is perfectly green.  It would be a great year for an August garden walk.

Buffalo Garden Walk 2014

I had such a great time on the Buffalo Garden Walk yesterday.  It seems that there must have been even more people than last year, as I parked even further away from the Central Headquarters.  I saw some gardens I hadn't seen before thanks to Dan Cooper, garden writer and book author.  He sent me the release to media on the showcase gardens to look at.

Here's one I hadn't seen before.  What beautiful architecture!

Niagara's Garden Tours Galore

Hi everyone,

It is the start of the garden tour season - well it already started, didn't it?  The Niagara Region has some great events that to add to the tour list.

This week (June 24th 2013) is the Hamilton Open Garden Week organized by the Hamilton Spectator - here's the link:

http://www.thespec.com/living-story/2201037-open-garden-week-your-spectator-guide/

Dundurn Castle (Now Dundurn National Historic Site)  in Hamilton is having an 1812 celebration with quite a few tours and events:

http://www2.hamilton.ca/CultureandRecreation/Arts_Culture_And_Museums/HamiltonCivicMuseums/Events/Dundurn.asp?site=DUNDURN

The Buffalo Garden Walk is part of a garden festival that lasts more than a month.  Here are the 2 links:

Here's the Buffalo Garden Walk:

http://www.gardenwalkbuffalo.com

Here's the National Buffalo Garden Festival - this is what has grown out of the 2 day Garden Walk

http://www.nationalgardenfestival.com

Here's one of my favourite garden elements from the St. Catharines Garden Tour July 7th.  I've done photographs of each garden this week, so have a preview of the highlights.

This is a willow twig sculpture.  The twigs are placed in a pot in a woven pattern. The willow sprouts leaves at the top to form this living sculpture.