What can I say? I've been gardening since before I could even pronounce the word.

I've done it for pleasure and I've done it for pay. Over the years, I've worked variously in production greenhouses, commerical nurseries and retail garden centres. I've done time on tree farms, in ornamental gardens and in office towers (don't ask). I even did a stint as a horticultural journalist, which allowed me to tromp around southern Ontario, interviewing politicians, scientists and orchardists. Along the way, I bud-grafted countless thousands of roses, planted even more tulips and learned to mow lawns in eye-catching patterns.

Then one day I got tired of being permanently broke and left horticulture for a career in computers where I worked hard, rarely saw the light of day and earned enough money to afford a garden of my own - in beautiful British Columbia, no less. That garden is as wild as it is temperamental and it's the antithesis of everything I was taught. And I like it that way.

This website was originally conceived in 2007, the same year Lyme Disease entered my life, causing me to all but disappear from the world. I'm back now and so is my website, albeit in a slightly different form.