It’s the end of August and I just visited two amazing gardens in Calgary – my Oma’s garden with dozens of varieties of flowers and Uncle John’s homemade greenhouse.
Oma has a sea field of plants. She’s been cultivating them there for over fifty years. There’s white hydrangeas, red Japanese poppies (I brought the seeds back from a visit to Japan, but I don’t think they let you do that anymore), pansies, marigolds (annuals) and nasturtiums from seed…
white ones, yellow ones, pink ones, red ones, hostas, ferns…
and clematis – to start! There’s more flowers in the vegetable garden, around the house and in the front yard. Plus apples, raspberries, onions, tomatoes, beets, rhubarb…
And the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – Uncle John also has an impressive garden. Look at these vegetables! He strings up the tomatoes so they take up less space. I think he has every vegetable you can grow!
Uncle John built this greenhouse on the side of his garage with pvc pipe and plastic film. It’s over 6 feet tall and keeps a nice hot temperature even during those summer cold snaps.
Oh, and here’s gardening companion, Diamond. Uncle John catches wasps and puts them in her web. Diamond wraps up the wasp like a breakfast burrito. Samwise can’t save you now!
Diamond, the gardener’s spider companion
