garden notes to self

• Upper Canada Seeds specializes in organically grown heirloom tomatoes mmmm, offering 237 varieties of seeds in their 2008 catalog.

• North America Native Plant Society's seed exchange program, and their great resources for native plant gardening within their publications page.

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The Ritchers catalog has been under my desk at work for weeks.
Online they have some info sheets that I should remember to refer to in the future.







Books I wish I owned:

von Baeyer, Edwinna. Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening 1900-1930. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984. (635.09 V57)

Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: the Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Trail. Toronto ON: Penguin, 1999. (920 G67)

Martin, Carol. A History of Canadian Gardening. Toronto ON: McArthur & Co., 2000. (635.09 M14)

von Baeyer, Edwinna, and Pleasance Crawford (eds.) Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing. (820 G14) Toronto: Random House Canada, 1995. Hardback: 334 pp.

cute:

• Manual for Lavender
  

doodling:
shady nook sketch, 21 March 2008

















also should be mentioned: browalia and Labrador violets (pictured here), the many hostas, spiderwort, Solomon's seal, lungwort, purple carpet thyme...pots of shady things tucked here and there...



current music:
MICHAEL TORKE
Conductor: Marin Alsop, Percussion: Colin Currie
ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
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