TLD Business Bloomer Home and Garden Services

05/15/2026

May long weekend in Alberta, can be a challenge for gardeners! Only the foolish will tempt the wrath of a frost, snowfall warning! Don't be silly, wait it out, folks! Hard as it is...

05/03/2026

Clean up has begun! It is time to welcome our beauties!

04/21/2026

😎getting itchier by the moment! I see green popping all over! Almost tempted to start cleaning up. It's too early! Our little critters are still awakening! Hold off another couple weeks!🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🌻🌸🌹🌼🏵🥦🌷

04/18/2026

Great day of playing in the dirt!! Gladiola, Freesia, and Dutch Iris bulbs, Anemone corms. Also sowed tomatoes, greenpeppers and pickling cucumbers into 3 wintersowing jugs. Sweet peas go outside in ground tomorrow!! So excited to begin!

04/18/2026

Tis the season my garden friends!!! Let's get potting up those bulbs, tubers and seeds!!

04/01/2026

Oh yah, that's me!!😄👏

Unlimited energy. Just add sunshine and soil. ☀️

03/31/2026

Excellent advice!

You see: w**ds ruining your lawn.
A bumblebee queen sees: the first full meal in five months.

The purple flowers dotting your lawn right now are Common Blue Violets. They're low. They spread. They ignore your herbicide because their root system is built to survive chemical warfare. You've been fighting them for years. They're winning.

Here's why they should.

Wild violets are native. They've been in eastern North America for thousands of years — long before anyone decided grass should grow in a monoculture. They bloom in March and April when almost nothing else in your lawn is flowering. For the bumblebee queen that just emerged from five months of hibernation, the violet in your lawn may be the only nectar source within a hundred feet.

But violets have a secret reproductive system that makes them nearly invincible.

The purple flowers you see? They're the display. They attract pollinators and produce some seeds. But the real production happens underground. Violets produce hidden flowers called cleistogamous flowers — sealed buds at the base of the plant that never open, self-fertilize internally, and produce seeds without ever being pollinated by an insect. No bee needed. No weather dependency. Guaranteed reproduction.

The seeds have a built-in ant delivery system. Each seed has an elaiosome — a fatty, nutrient-rich appendage that ants find irresistible. Ants carry the seeds underground to their colony, eat the elaiosome, and discard the seed in the nutrient-rich refuse pile deep in the tunnel. The seed germinates in perfect conditions — buried, fertilized, and protected.

You're fighting a plant that self-pollinates underground, has seeds delivered by ants, and feeds the most important early-season pollinators in your neighborhood.

A lawn with violets in March is a lawn that's supporting the bumblebee queens that will build the colonies that pollinate your garden in July. A lawn without violets is a green carpet that feeds nothing.

The violets don't need your permission. They've been here longer than the grass. Let them stay.

**d

03/31/2026

I'm so excited to see the bees!

03/31/2026

Haha garden humor! No liars here...! Never done, never too many!

BUSTED!! 🤣🤣

03/31/2026

A little history on Joe Pye W**d!

His name was Joseph Shauquethqueat.

A Mohican leader, respected community figure, and the man history remembers as "Joe Pye."

Somewhere along the way, his name got attached to one of late summer's most powerful native plants. And then someone added the word w**d.

That plant is Joe Pye W**d. It’s a host plant for 35+ species of butterfly and moth caterpillars.

Swallowtails, painted ladies, skippers, and monarchs all depend on it when most other flowers have already called it quits for the season.

It's not a w**d.
It's a lifeline and it carries the name of a man whose legacy deserves to be remembered.

The full story + where to find it are in the comments. 👇

02/08/2026

With Vale's Greenhouse – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉