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Garden Crops…

Challenging Thyme and Other Spices

15 Nov 202015 Nov 2020
I was recently reviewing my 2020 gardening resolutions. While some, like traveling to garden shows and gardening tours did not happen, I did manage to add some spice to life…
Animals…

Squirrel in the Garden

20 Sep 202020 Sep 2020
Although the surveillance video is grainy, I know I have seen the suspect before. They show up in my backyard early in the mornings and wreak havoc. Footprints, mangled leaves…
flowers…

Six on Saturday: My Top Six Garden Fixes

9 Aug 202010 Aug 2020
I enjoy reading gardening tweets and am often inspired by the beautiful images posted by plant lovers. On Saturdays, garden Twitter fans often post #sixonsaturday to highlight garden success. Yesterday,…
art…

Tips for Container Gardening

28 Jun 202028 Jun 2020
Like most other things this year, the garden workshops and tours I booked have been cancelled. While in person events are on hold, zoom has filled some of the void.…
flowers…

Sweet William

21 Jun 202022 Jun 2020
From its shape and colour, you may have guessed that Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) is part of the carnation family (Dianthus). Dianthus is derived from the Greek words dios (God)…
flowers…

Four Ways to Save on your Garden This Season and Next

24 May 202023 May 2020
It seems that bears and people have something in common this year. After months of forced isolation, they are back out in nature with a force. The traffic reports last…
flowers…

Homemade Fertilizer

3 May 20203 May 2020
When we moved into our home ten years ago, the gardens in our townhouse complex were well tended. Every spring the landscaping company would drop off a load of compost…
Garden Tip…

Sometimes Life Succulents

22 Mar 202022 Mar 2020
I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago. Life has changed a lot in that short period of time but after re-reading, I decided this post still has some…
flowers…

A Canadian Winter Garden

12 Jan 202024 Feb 2020
I spent an hour gardening outside on January 3 in Canada. This is not west coast, temperate Canada, but middle-of-the-country should be really cold and snowy winter Canada. We had…
flowers…

The Top Six Reasons for Community Gardens

1 Dec 201924 Feb 2020
I was inspired to reconsider the uses of my own little plot of earth five years ago when I first visited the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Located a…

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