Lucas House
Lucas House Diary: June 29, 2025
This is the month that the garden feels like it’s getting established. There are two reasons for this: First, it’s time… we’re starting the third year of the garden now. Second, I have added some shrubs. Deer and rabbits continue to be a problem, although I am seeing fewer than last year. But I can…
Read MoreLucas House Diary: May 24, 2025
The garden is slowly….very slowly… becoming a garden. That’s because the perennials, grasses and sedges are starting to grow.
Read MoreLucas House Diary: May 10, 2025
Spring clean-up is pretty much complete now. The garden can breathe again. particularly the parts that were under a thatch of Little Bluestem stalks.
Read MoreLucas House Diary: April 19, 2025
Flattened stalks and some glimmers of spring.
Read MoreHaliburton Deer: Lessons and Hope From the Garden at Lucas House
Haliburton deer and gardens: it seems like they’ll never get along. But maybe there’s a way embrace our hungry friends.
Read MoreThe Great Haliburton Used Plant Pot Drive
Do you have empty plant pots you want to get rid of? Don’t just throw them away or put them in the recycling – they can be re-used! Find out how.
Read MoreHappy first birthday to the garden at Lucas House
The garden at Lucas House celebrated its first birthday last week. Here’s an update of where it’s at. And where I’m at in relation to it.
Read MoreWakey, wakey! Native plants in spring
With the early end to winter, it seems spring has taken a long time to get going. That feels especially true to impatient old me at Lucas House, Grounded’s native plant demonstration garden in Haliburton village. But things are happening. And they’ll ramp up as we go through May. It’s a nail-biting time in the…
Read MoreLeave the dead plant stems!
With this scarily warm weather we’ve been having, it’s tempting to get out there and do a bit of tidying up in the garden. Please wait!
Read MorePlanting the part-shaded garden
As you’ll see from the images, I planted the matrix grasses in a grid pattern. This will make it easier to see what is grass and what is weeds. Then I planted the forbs in the gaps. You’ll see some of the grasses are starting to go into dormancy by late September. Fingers crossed they’ll…
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