Christmastime Dispatch: 2025

December 17, 2025

Hello dear friends! Christmas cheer and the sounds and delights of the season are once again in full swing here, …

View of a Lifetime: My Garden’s Autumn Finery

October 27, 2025

Hello friends! For the last weeks of this October, I’ve been admiring the late autumn vignettes glimpsed through windows which …

November 26, 2024

Hello again friends! As we are making our way through the final week of November, I thought a word from …

April 14, 2024

Hello again friends! April is well and truly at the midway point – spring officially arrived and once the snow …

August 17, 2016

Hello to all you sweltering North Americans! Greetings to everyone, everywhere 🙂 Welcome to another Vanha Talo Suomi update. ❤ …

June 9, 2016

Greetings to All! We are now into the second week of June and Finns everywhere are counting down to Juhannus …

October 8, 2015

Happens every year, to every gardener – well nearly everyone outside the tropics – the dreaded visit by Jack Frost. …

November 9, 2014

As we approach the midway point of our renovation project, I thought it might be helpful to our readers if …

April 13, 2014

It’s been a bit rainy this weekend, unfortunately the weather complicated our plans of yard work but we weren’t deterred …