Just your basic blog about my gardening obsession. Yes, a bit ridiculous to start a gardening blog at the end of October, but oh well.
Welcome !
My name is Erin, I’m a 29-year-old mother of two wonderful girls, aged 6 years and newborn. I live in Ontario Canada and get to enjoy the extremes of all four seasons. Ok, I don’t enjoy winter.
Since moving to our new home I have discovered the beautiful world of designing a garden, the frustration and joy it brings, and the gorgeous big blooms that appear after all the work put into growing them. My other loves include reading, art, baking, names (that requires a whole new blog), travelling and music. Oh, and coffee.
This is where I will put my thoughts and ideas in writing about gardening, certain plants and other things that cross my mind.
Gardening in the Lines 
Hi Erin! My husband is the gardener in our family and I am the photographer of beautiful flowers in the garden. Thanks for stopping by my blog and “liking” one of my posts! Happy Friday. Margie
Hello Margie ! Your photography is amazing, as are the flowers. I enjoyed looking through your blog !
Erin, it’s never too late to start gardening and blogging. Glad you found mine, and I’ve been enjoying exploring your site. Nicely done — and I love the name you picked for your blog. If you’d like to become more obsessed, you can check out http://www.blotanical.com. It’s nothing but gardening blogs from all over the world. You may even want to register your blog with them. Happy writing and happy gardening!
I absolutely love gardening! Lately, I haven’t been blogging about it as much as I did in the summer but I definitely will when things get going in the garden. A great blog you have here – one for the blogroll!
What a fantastic blog!!! Definitelyh worth a “follow!”
Thank you for popping by my blog and liking my post – I love your photography. That is something I am hopefully going to get better at with more practice!
Your blog is wonderful! Such beautiful pictures and great information. Thanks for the like 🙂
Thanks Erin for “Liking” my recent post about delphiniums. I live on the East Coast of the USA, and am still harvesting my parsley (which I mulched with many layers). But the cold is definitely here–ugh. I’ll be doing a photo shoot of Longwood Gardens next week. Hope that you’ll Follow my journey. I am about to Follow yours, Sally
thanks for visiting my blog, I look forward to following yours, it looks like you have been prolific. I love Canada, so it will be fun to read your blog.
Hi there, it’s nice to meet another Canadian blogger, and one not that far from me.
Hi there! Thanks for popping over and liking our post about getting started in Homesteading – first step Gardening. Like everyone said – your photography is beautiful! We’ll see if we can create beautiful scenery like you! 🙂 Hope to see you stop by again!
Hi Erin! I too started blogging in October 2011 – it has been fun 🙂 Thanks for stopping by to see my greenhouse! I look foward to keeping up with your blog! By the way, I loved your post on rooftop gardens. My university has one and it almost always looks dead – but such is the way in NM during the winter. Take care!
Thanks for stopping by my Post today!
It’s been a bit warm for January down here causing the daffodils to grow (up about 6 inches) and the forsythia buds to swell. Hope the cherry trees don’t follow suit or we may have no spring color when they all get frozen in February.
Have a fabulous day!
Hi Erin. Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my post on seeds and their longevity. It looks like you’ve got a great blog going here yourself. You images are great! I’m not much of a winter fan either. I’m in New Hampshire, so I feel your pain! We’re practically neighbors! But you have to admit, this is a great time to do all the planning. Looking forward to following your garden through the year.
Hi, thanks for visiting my blog and clicking “like” on one of my posts. This looks like a great blog, and I’ll look forward to following your garden!
Erin, I’m delighted you came by and introduced yourself–I’ll enjoy sharing in your adventures here very much. We have a number of interests in common! Cheers to you, and I hope January has been kind this year in Ontario!
Kathryn
Erin, thanks for stopping by my blog- I love your pics and look forward to posting some of my own once we get into spring and summer. I love gardening as well and am thoroughly enjoying experimenting with different plants and shrubs. I love watching things grow and digging in the dirt. Look forward to seeing more pics and hearing about your gardening adventures.
And here is another person thanking you for the ‘like’ you gave me…truly, though, it is appreciatated. Your blog is very interesting, and I thouroughly look forward to exploring it.
Thanks for liking my post! Seems we have a few things in common. 🙂
http://www.PaulasGardenPatch.com
Hi Erin! I really really enjoy your blog! It makes me happy 😀 I love flower photography and your pictures are beautiful! Thanks for sharing so much on your blog!
Hi Erin, thanks for visiting my blog. While we live in VERY different climates, we all have things to learn from each other! Your photographs are beautiful!
Hi Erin, thanks for popping over and liking my recent garden post. Your blog layout is lovely. What is that magnificient flower in the picture on your sidebar?
Hello Jeanne ! They are peonies. My favourite flower.
Congratulations! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award, check it out here:
http://adventure-mum.com/2012/02/06/my-second-vers…-blogger-award/
Enjoy and have fun
You deserved it!
Sarah
Neat ! Thanks ! The link took me to a page that was not found, so I’m not sure what the Versatile Blogger Award is. I’ll just go check out her blog home page and see what I can find. Thanks again !
Hi Erin,
Thanks for visiting and liking my seed starting post. If you think it was craziness to start a gardening blog in October, I started mine in February! So we gardeners really are an optimistic bunch, aren’t we? Either that, or we don’t know what else to do with outselves when we’re not gardening!
Karla
Hi Erin,
Thanks for stopping by on my second day of blogging and being kind enough to add a “like” to my blog. I’ll have to check out many of the other blogs you’ve added a “like” to so I can follow some other great garden blogs.
Yes, I love reading what others have to say, especially about gardening.
Thanks for visiting my blog. I live in California now, but I was born in London, Ontario Canada! It made me smile to read that about you.
Thanks for ‘liking’ my post and congratulations on a lovely and well informed blog yourself. I shall follow with great interest. I just do not manage enough time in the garden, too many other interests, but am still an enthusiast:)
Thanks for liking my post! Your post was the first I’ve heard of seed balls. I’ll have to try them sometime!
I like the way you turn a phrase! Thanks for visiting my blog…
Love your writing style- and what a fantastic picture that is! Glad to run across your beautiful blog. -kate
Thanks for stopping by my blog. It sounds like we have a lot in common, except the whole living in Canada thing. 🙂 I am interested in your “name” obsession. What exactly does that mean?
Thanks for stopping by my blog today! The pictures of all your flowers are absolutely beautiful! I do just a few flowers, lots and lots of vegetables and am just starting to get into herbs! There is nothing more satisfying than planting a seed and watching it grow into something wonderful.
Erin, I am so enjoying your blog – it’s stunning. How is it like having a garden in Canada? What does and does not grow there? (I know – big question) My garden is currently in Norway, and soon in Wales. Looking forward to your posts!
Hello there, just wanted to say that I’m really enjoying your blog and lovely pictures and will keep reading!
Hi Erin,
I’ve been enjoying your blog. I love your fearlessness in gardening 🙂 I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award and Blog on Fire award. Thanks for sharing your passion with us,
Steff
http://stephanielane2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/awards-oh-my/
Hi Erin,
Just discovered your blog via blotanical! Enjoying it very much. We’re the first ‘virtual’ gardening school in the world, and work with some amazing garden designers and horticulturalists. I also have a two year old and am 8 months pregnant – so love gardening when the babies sleep!
Hope to see you at MyGardenSchool sometime
All the best
Elspeth
http://www.my-garden-school.com
Thanks for visiting my site. You have lovely photos here!
Hi Erin, I am noticing that you are also gardening (baking, reading, etc.) in the lovely Province of Ontario, as I am. Best wishes.
Thanks for visiting Intelligent Ramblings, you have a beautiful site, I look forward to visiting often, please visit my Photography site http://www.mojophoto.org where I do have some photographs of our Southern Flowers
BTW I only photograph what flowers I have grown
Thanks for stopping by and ‘liking’ my blog. Looks like you have a big garden. I wish we could experience more extremes of temperature here. Cold and wet seems to be all there is in Edinburgh at the moment 🙂
Hi,
Thank you for visiting my blog and liking my post “this moment”. I appreciate the feedback! I am just getting into gardening and I am really loving it.
Cheers,
Jill
Sawas D Ja ! ( =Hello in Thailand ) Erin.
Thanks for liking my post Flowering Flowers.
I love garden too much, piano music by Frank Mills & rocker as Bryan Adams
Hi,
I just nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award!
Cheers,
Elisa
http://elisacashiola.com/2012/05/07/the-award-goes-to/
oh, neat ! Thank you !
You’re welcome! 😉
Cheers,
Elisa
Hi Erin, lovely to see you liked my post “fleurs” with the red tulips – thank you 🙂 I’m not a knowledgeable gardener but I can’t stop photographing flowers …
Beautiful blog Erin! I like the way you write!
It was great you liked my post ‘ learning paintography’. Thank you!
Now when I post some flowers I don’t know their name I will add a question mark for you to answer! 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog. I’ll do likewise.
How I wish I could garden as my husband knew how to do. Maybe I can learn from your blog! Stunning photographs, too.
Thank you for visiting my blog. Beautiful photos and a great blog. I will definately come back and visit your blog!
Hey! Love your blog, I can tell you love flowers :)! Thanks for stopping by my blog+commenting! xoG
hi there, i nominated you for the ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD. Read all about it at http://starlight427.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/one-lovely-blog-award/
Regards
Thanks for the like on my post and how cool that you have a gardening blog in Ontario ( I am too) !!
Hi Erin. Thanks for visiting. I understand the need for different blogs!! My gardening and cooking blog is still walking baby steps. But hey, I am in Scotland like you are in Canada, and summer is only just upon us here. And my new summerhouse gives me enthusiasm to start growing in these latitudes.
Talk about a learning curve!! So nice to visit your blog. Will keep doing so – the best way is to sign up. So I will. Thank you.
Hi from Flowery Prose! I’ve nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award and the Very Inspirational Blogger Award! Your nomination is on my Virtual Bouquets tab. (If you’re not participating in these awards, please accept my sincere apologies).
Great blog! Flowers are my best models, but half the time I don’t know their names! Thanks for visiting my blog.
hi Erin,
I’ve nominated you for the Sunshine Award! Please see your blog listing at http://elisacashiola.com/2012/06/17/a-ray-of-sunshine/.
Cheers!
Elisa
Nice blog! I can really appreciate your challenges and joys since I am also in Ontario. Feel free to contact me!
I have nominated you for One Lovely Blog Award as I really appreciate what you do …… you can read more about it here http://clothmonkey.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/one-lovely-blog-award/
I really like your blog and appreciate you liking my post.
regards,
~Tj
Hi erin,
I can no longer read your blog. I get this message in the emails: “This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading.”
When I go to the blog it says this:”Protected: Like Network is the Place to Check Out’
Just thought you should know.
Hi, just letting you know I’ve nominated you for the “Mrs Sparkly’s Ten Commandments” blogging award. Great blog – congrats and well deserved!
http://harvestbeyondmyfrontdoor.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/creative-beautiful-and-sparkly/