Monsters in the garden

online pharmacy buy levitra soft with best prices today in the USA A monstrously cool way to do succulents Yesterday was Hallowe’en in chilly Toronto. Must hav online pharmacy buy soft cialis with best prices today in the USA e a Hallowe’en hangover, because I feel like doing this quick little creature feature from Floramagoria […]

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Every garden needs more dinosaurs

Dippy the Diplodocus outside Pittsburg’s Carnegie Institute near Schenley Plaza. You might be forgiven for thinking (as I did) this was a Bro buy amoxicillin online youngchiropractic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/amoxicillin.html no prescription pharmacy ntosaurus aka Apatosaurus. Nope, it’s notasaurus. But we’re right in thinking it’s a grand addition to the gardens.  These large-scaley critters make common-garden lions and […]

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Garden Design Tips from Garden Walks : A Convertible Greenhouse

Convertible, moving-wall greenhouse, with back wall open for summer. In Buffalo this summer, while Helen and I toured the city’s must-see Garden Walk, I became deliriously envious (I mean, inspired) of a design solution for convertible greenhouse. Buffalo gardeners Arlan and Dom had transformed their greenhouse into four-season use. A greenhouse that doesn’t turn into the fiery […]

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Floramagoria and the art of planting a rainbow

The rain brought out the rainbow in this mosaic rug by Clare Dohna – in the garden fittingly called Floramagoria Who knows at what stage this glorious mosaic came in this Portland garden’s planning and design? (A rhetorical question, as garden designer Laura Crockett and owners Craig Quirk and Larry Neill likely know quite well.) […]

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Two practical ideas for a split-level garden

Large firepit sitting area from designer-retailer JJ deSousa’s garden in Portland, OR Are you stuck with a garden that isn’t “on the level” – so sloped, it creates awkward changes in elevation? Want to turn that negative into a positive? Well, our promise to bring back ideas from the Garden Bloggers’ Fling in Portland OR […]

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Gardenbug takes leave of 200 clematis

A tantalizing establishing shot of the clematis collection chez Marie Before she left it all to move to Northern BC, oh!, was I lucky to visit Marie the Gardenbug to wander awestruck through her early-July garden – including her collection of over 200 clematis! Yes, that thought deserves two exclamation marks. If not more. We […]

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Get thee to Buffalo for Garden Walk

The Locke-Irey g buy clomid online innomed.net/literature/info/Europe/pdf/clomid.html no prescription pharmacy arden alone (seen here with a hint of Buffalo’s many charming streetscapes), will have as many as 4000 visitors over the Garden Walk weekend. If you’d told us five years ago that we would eagerly visit Buffalo, Buffalo!, as a garden destination, we might have […]

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Beach Garden Tour, my favourite garden

The tour program describes this Williamson Road garden as a “plantswoman’s paradise.” No wonder I loved it. Sunday’s Beach Garden Society garden tour had many highlights – and we’ll write about others, later. But, by accident, Sarah and I saved the best till last, the subject of t buy augmentin online physiciansalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/augmentin.html no prescription pharmacy […]

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Sneak Peek Through the Garden Gate 2014, Hogg’s Hollow

The gardens of Hogg’s Hollow are putting on their best for you, this weekend If Agatha Christie had set buy professional cialis online www.indcheminternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/professional-cialis.html no prescription pharmacy a mystery in Toronto, Hogg’s Hollow would be the ideal locale. Though many of the original bungalows have been remade in a grander style over the years, the […]

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Planter Combo: Spring Orange & Wine

I absolutely love this planter design by Lucy Pelletier of Perrin and Rose garden design. Pairing the ‘Princes Irene’ tulips with the wine-coloured pansies and the traditional variegated ivy works remarkably well, especially with the addition of the red twigs. Instead of pairing the orange tulip with contrasting blues or more in the orange colour […]

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Vertical gardens grow up

It seems that you can order these Sage Living Walls as kits, plants and all. Plant unit pops out of the frame, and a cartridge inside retains the water. Strangely, a tropical version like this one doesn’t appear on their website. While our poor blog lies fallow, I’m busily putting the finishing touches on a […]

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