Sharona Landscape Design

Getting to know the power of your garden and it's vast influences is a striking, mind opening experience. Knowing to choose the right planting materials for our garden and see the services they provide to us and to wildlife is what we do best. Creating change, being part of the change and bringing our natural environment back to life is what drives us and gives us hope, for all of us. Make sure to check out http://sharonalandscapedesign.ca/ and subscribe to our newsletter. May we all have a fulfilling, healthy, beautiful and wonderful year!

https://backtoabundance.ca/blog/letter-to-you Here is a picture from my first vegetable garden and some of my story from then until these exciting times of new beginnings! One of the things I love most about gardening is that it is always new, always exciting. Best wishes for the new year from my garden to yours!

Every dream garden starts with seeds and passion. This winter solstice I planted 32 jugs of Ontario native wildflower seeds. All will be included in the design of our pollinator garden and food forest garden. Join me in my journey so we can walk together towards our garden goals and make our world a better place. Sign up for my upcoming newsletter where I will share with you tips, ideas and experiences that can lift our lives up over restrictions, isolation, distancing and p...lan disrupting forces. The future is ours - let us claim it! Click the link below to sign up! https://mailchi.mp/e6fafd864605/vg3633ivrj Happy holidays to all of you! PS. See the list of wildflowers I planted in these jugs in the comments. #meadowgardens #Sharonalandscapedesign #lifeisagarden #foodforest #pollinatorgarden #ontarionativeplants #wintersowing #natureisthebestgardener #seedsofhope #niagarafallsgardener #wildflowersofontario See more

Today I'd like to share with you a meme that I really like. Even if it is not the season for many of us to be outside we can look out through a window. If we feel like we are stuck inside (a box?) then I would just like to reassure you, that even though you feel the world has frozen, the plans of life are being intensively created. Hopefully gardening plans are in and among them! For example, last week I was stuck (OK 'placed' is a better word) working as a head counter and g...reeter, standing for a full week at a very cold door at work. Although this ordeal felt quit poor you would be surprised at how many valuable things happened in this seemingly useless week! It is amazing when I think of it. Doors opened and I had amazing encounters. It is amazing what can happen in a useless week! Vibes can be as positive as you believe they can or should be. Know that it is important to GIVE GOOD VIBES outward, even when you don't feel you have it in you to give. Just do it and your reward will come your way. Happy holidays, don't give up!! Boxes are not real anyway :)) See more

In Niagara Falls, Canada growing zone 6b, in our back yard food forest we harvest eight months out of the year. No frost protection, no cold frames, no covers. In the remaining four months, we enjoy preserved vegetables and berries. At the moment mostly frozen. A few days ago I harvested the first fruit of my Japanese Quince shrub. It had the aroma of lemon meringue pie. Smelling it was so much fun! I couldn't wait to cook it. It tasted fantastic and made me feel good at a t...ime of experiencing high sensitivity in my digestive tract. The Japanese radish was large enough to serve as an entire meal! It was mild, juicy and crunchy and just made me feel so fresh and happy as I was watching modules of my online course. I'm glad there are more to harvest! Going from beyond organic harvesting right out my door to a meal in a matter of hours, sometimes even less, is a pleasure that is worth being grateful for and certainly is not something I take for granted. These two are a fruit and a vegetable that I never grew or tasted before and I would have not probably had the pleasure of eating them had I not grown them in my highly diverse food forest that is full of surprises. Because it is so easy to grow a back yard food forest and there is so much to gain from it, I want to spark your interest and inspire your desire to look into this rewarding and abundant garden system that will change your life experience in so many ways. I will keep doing this, so stay tuned ;) For the people, for the land, for the planet. There are not many things you can do that are good on so many levels.