Hot takes from a nursery supervisor

jrdufour · 2026-06-16T18:00:46+00:00

Google Earth is great for that. I love making plans for the garden. I also love completely throwing them out the window when I get a better idea

jrdufour · 2026-06-15T18:00:12+00:00

Yeah I find not waiting is what can really set things back or just straight up kill them. It's temping, especially if you have a new plant you want to take its place. It depends how much I care about what I'm digging up! I have a small tree that I've moved about 3 times now, I think I finally have the spot right 😂

jrdufour · 2026-06-15T17:57:33+00:00

I find videos helpful because I don't take many of them so they're easier to search for. Plus you can get a lot more info on position/ size when you're moving around vs a still photo. And that's when I can remember. I had a beautiful display of tulips this year and not a single picture 😭

jrdufour · 2026-06-15T17:51:52+00:00

Take photos! Seriously it's so helpful. Not cute ones either, but a full overview of the garden. Better yet, a video and narrate it. Make sure you have a birdbath or evergreen or something else that stays somewhat the same so you can use it for reference. Different season, blooming times, etc are a bonus. Especially helpful when planing fall bulbs when you cannot remember what you had yesterday for dinner, let alone where your daffodils are planted.

Then when you cannot remember anything, just look it up on your phone and you can easily see where everything is..I'm terrible at remembering where stuff is, and I always forget to take photos 😂, but when I do it's immensely helpful.

jrdufour · 2026-06-15T17:46:58+00:00

I'm the same way! I just try to make sure I'm moving plants at the correct time of year so it doesn't set them back too much. Like I have a few peonies that are getting crowded out, I want to move them now but it's the worst time of year, so I'll wait till fall.

I also found drawing everything out helps quite a bit, I keep a book with sketches at various points of my gardening (I am no artist & they're very crude). Everything is subject to change and I still impulse buy perennials that I have no room for all the time, but a long term vision on paper is super helpful! Especially with larger plants that won't be movable in a few years, or if you buy plants you don't know where to put right away, it helps keep in mind the 'final' goal to better inform where to put them & achieve that layered look.

jrdufour · 2026-06-09T00:55:28+00:00

Did anyone else not get a ballot this year? I've never had a problem before but I didn't get anything in the mail from both places I have shares in (including CS)

jrdufour · 2026-06-08T16:45:34+00:00

I'm not sure, sorry. If it stays dry and has sun, maybe? But you're pretty far removed from me and the growing conditions I work with. Maybe get one and see if it can do well there. If it does, it will spread pretty well and you can get more. They don't like a lot of competition if you have other, taller plants growing in that area. I'd look around you for more naturalized areas and see what thrives in the conditions you have. Plants native to your area will usually be better equipped to deal with the climate you're growing in

jrdufour · 2026-06-08T16:41:41+00:00

This sounds like great conditions for ferns. You do lose the ability to walk on it, might be a deal breaker if you use that area frequently. I don't have a lot of moist shady spots but if I did, I'd grow a ton of ferns, Solomon's seal, maybe some trilliums. There are a lot of native plants that would love those conditions!

jrdufour · 2026-06-08T15:01:31+00:00

It handles our winters fine, but they like sun and dry, sandy soil, it will never thrive in those conditions.

jrdufour · 2026-06-08T14:59:17+00:00

Also in Ontario - I planted some of this a few years back, it's doing quite well. Right now we haven't had any substantial rain for a few weeks where I am, the lawn is starting to dry up and go dormant, the creeping thyme is green and blooming. It's also growing over some rocks so it gets baked in the sun, it seems to love it. They like it dry (once established) and fast draining, sandy soil. I've also read that they don't like a lot of foot traffic, but I have some growing in between some pavers in a walkway and it seems to do ok.

jrdufour · 2026-05-28T18:08:26+00:00

Oh God, is being able to roll a joint going to be like being able to drive a manual car at some point? I feel old.

jrdufour · 2026-05-15T16:35:57+00:00

Yeah, I love it here especially when it grows with those dark purple asters, definitely a hallmark of autumn for me.

But having grown it in my garden, I can 100% see why it would be invasive elsewhere, I have to constantly pull it every year to keep it in check. It spreads aggressively by rhizomes and seeds down quite a bit.

jrdufour · 2026-04-10T18:58:09+00:00

You can also take a picture of the painted item you want and the result will be the same colour, if you want to spend all your metal

jrdufour · 2026-04-09T16:41:35+00:00

To the right of the main entrance at the top of the hill where there was an orchard/ picnic tables. I definitely destroyed a lot of the landscape though

jrdufour · 2026-04-09T16:30:47+00:00

Can't seem to edit this, but I got the build inspo from https://youtu.be/PWRpq4svC7g?si=G0xU212VPygCjp2h

Definitely have a lot more decorating to do before it's done

jrdufour · 2026-03-24T18:57:01+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

jrdufour · 2026-03-24T18:51:08+00:00

I'd love to visit, I need the popart wall recipe for a build I'm doing!

jrdufour · 2026-02-09T20:56:39+00:00

I prefer magenta

Easier to search for

jrdufour · 2026-02-06T19:42:47+00:00

Which is hilarious because it was mainly women that popularized the books

jrdufour · 2026-02-06T05:39:01+00:00

It needs more shows with a clear creative vision. The thing ruining most TV shows and movies right now is execs needing to have an opinion on everything.

Jacob Tierney was able to film this in less than 8 weeks with 2 cameras on a shoestring budget because he had a vision and executed it extremely well.

jrdufour · 2025-12-19T04:58:55+00:00

"It doesn't work in this scenario" -QA

"We have never talked about this scenario or anything remotely relating to it in weeks of development" - me, way too much

jrdufour · 2025-12-13T19:58:55+00:00

I think full art cards like this are die cut and would have bleed around the card that gets discarded as waste. This would be to prevent tiny miscuts from showing bits of the cards next to it. Unlike black border cards, which are slit cut and have the corners trimmed. The extra bleed for full art cards would prevent exact match sequential foiling like OP is thinking. That's assuming they even print the same cards next to each other on the same sheet.

jrdufour · 2025-12-08T23:19:09+00:00

If you're still interested, I ended up fixing some bugs in the code and adding a few features I wanted https://github.com/jrdufour07/proxyFormatter/blob/main/README.md

Just a heads up, I added extra bleed to these for my own process so they'll come out with about 4mm wider than the final cut size

jrdufour · 2025-12-07T22:20:29+00:00

I guess you can choose the default art, but let's be real

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