Kay Jay Gardening

My co-worker Michelle ordered this one gave it to her dad for his birthday! I put a vintage hummingbird on it, along with squirrel-gnawed black walnuts on one side, collected from beside Moriyama Pavilion at Edwards Garden. So, in a way, this is a squirrel-human collaborative artwork.

For those of you who haven't heard from me, I'm working this summer as a student gardener at Edwards Gardens. So far, it's been a good job. We finally finished planting all the annuals as of July 15. It's very late to be finishing planting, and I feel more relaxed now.

My booth on Aug. 30 Pedestrian Sunday @ the Kensington Market Art Fair...

This house has two pens with nibs supporting each eave of the roof. It's for the Writing Fairy, which is someone like me! There's a roll of birch bark for the owner to write a short tale with too.

Autumn Fairy Home. I wish I had finished more today. But there'll be more materials in Niagara on the Lake to work with, after I move there. Like grape vines, nuts, and collecting lake seaweed, and driftwood in November from shores of Great Lakes.

this is what it looks like one month later after planting. I think it's happy.

No. 3 lol. I find this one a bit busy, but i've spent enough time on it already. Once you put the plants in though, painstakingly, you don't want to start over. I'm on to No. 4 now. :-)

I'm getting ready to move to Niagara-on-the-Lake to study horticulture. But first I need to sell all my fairy houses on Pedestrian Sunday at Kensington Market. Yesterday I put my tender succulents into indoor pots so I can bring them in, in the Fall. Next summer I'm planning to make more succulent frames so I'm keeping a nursery of different varieties in a big tray. I feel encouraged by my conversations with neighbours and associates and friends in recent weeks. I think I'm on the right path because people have been very supportive and by pursuing what I like to do, it encourages them to do what they love too.

The first bird house I made this year, with the help of Dr. Gordon. i'll post pictures of him later. He started the Drop Inn at Cummer United Church, a lunchtime program / dental clinic for disadvantaged people where I volunteered each Wednesday. Dr. Gordon got the birch bark for me at his cottage near Haliburton. The cedar roots I climbed a ravine for near Kleinberg. That was a bit scary, fortunately, I was supervised by a friend who came with me.

My co-worker Michelle ordered this one gave it to her dad for his birthday! I put a vintage hummingbird on it, along with squirrel-gnawed black walnuts on one side, collected from beside Moriyama Pavilion at Edwards Garden. So, in a way, this is a squirrel-human collaborative artwork.

For those of you who haven't heard from me, I'm working this summer as a student gardener at Edwards Gardens. So far, it's been a good job. We finally finished planting all the annuals as of July 15. It's very late to be finishing planting, and I feel more relaxed now.

My booth on Aug. 30 Pedestrian Sunday @ the Kensington Market Art Fair...

This house has two pens with nibs supporting each eave of the roof. It's for the Writing Fairy, which is someone like me! There's a roll of birch bark for the owner to write a short tale with too.

Autumn Fairy Home. I wish I had finished more today. But there'll be more materials in Niagara on the Lake to work with, after I move there. Like grape vines, nuts, and collecting lake seaweed, and driftwood in November from shores of Great Lakes.

this is what it looks like one month later after planting. I think it's happy.

No. 3 lol. I find this one a bit busy, but i've spent enough time on it already. Once you put the plants in though, painstakingly, you don't want to start over. I'm on to No. 4 now. :-)