Apple Blossoms

Probably my favorite time in the garden and my favorite scent: when the apple tree is in full bloom.

Maureen

Experiments in the Garden

Occasionally (well, perhaps not so occasionally) I’ll plant something that’s pushing the gardening zone limits for Calgary. I’ve had lots of failures, but some successes too. Boxwood, which smells like a Spanish garden when the temperature is just right; vining hydrangea, which blooms, a little; and, flowering for the first time this year, two lenten roses. Hellebores, in Calgary.

They opened white, and I was disappointed they were the same colour. I’ve seen pictures of wonderful dusty shades. But each is shifting as it ages. One is white with more and more green, and little red dots near the centre. The other is morphing into green on the inside, and pink on the outside. I love watching the change, the flowers new every day.

Maureen

Contest Winners

We have a winner. Well, two, actually.

The magic spell contest for howweirdcanyouget.com has closed, and I have chosen my favorites. You can see them here: http://www.howweirdcanyouget.com/index_contest_winner_2012spring.html

The entries were wonderful. Besides the spells Griffith chose to work on this summer, there were many more, including wonderful words, like flazer and wizinko, disappearist and reappearist, and gothrow, mothrogh, cashmerish apearis, ruducto, and amobula. Wow.

There were also some stories from young writers that charmed me.

Thanks to everyone who entered,

Maureen