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…

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Lucas 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.

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Wakey, wakey! Native plants in spring

An image showing six 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…

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Leave 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!

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Planting 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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