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FoodShare’s VegeQuarium at Canada Blooms 2012

March 19, 2012 6 Comments

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Temporary Winterscaping

January 21, 2012 7 Comments

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Elf-sized gardens to charm your kids

December 6, 2011 6 Comments

How cute is that!? Photo courtesy of Janit Calvo, the mini-garden guru, of Two Green Thumbs You don’t have to be a kid to love little. Adults are as likely to be as passionate about dollhouses, for example, as children are. Just look at the Kensington Dollshouse Festival in London, England, which has been drawing mostly […]

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Everyday lessons from castle gardens

November 30, 2011 1 Comment

Lesson one: Always have a good place to sit and enjoy the garden. When Sarah & I started our blog over five years ago (last month; we missed our blog’s birthday!), we said we wanted to write about real gardens by real people. None of that garden porn stuff for us. Ha! Well, we’ve learne […]

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Getting around the utility shed problem

November 29, 2011 3 Comments

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Recycle an old hose into a bee hotel

November 26, 2011 4 Comments

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A living willow fence

November 6, 2011 8 Comments

Living willow fence on Laird Drive by The Living Wall There are hedges and there are fences. When the twain meets, it’s a living fence, like this one spied on Laird Drive at Commercial Road online pharmacy buy symbicort inhaler with best prices today in the USA last spring. A closer look showed the material […]

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Concrete art for the rest of us

November 1, 2011 3 Comments

My son’s hand at age 12 still waves to me in my garden My first “concrete” art-making experience involved 250 kids, a stack of take-out trays, latex gloves, and a cement truck. My idea was to have each kid make a stepping stone with their hand print and name. We’d use the stones to repave […]

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Birgit Piskor, gardener and sculptor

October 29, 2011 5 Comments

Here’s the inspiration I promised when I wrote about concrete garden projects last week: works of imagination – all of them carefully crafted of concrete – by Victoria, B.C., sculptor, Birgit Piskor. And here’s the bonus. Not only is Piskor a gifted sculptor, she is also a gifted gardener. buy cymbalta online waynegeneralhospital.org/home-health/html/cymbalta.html no prescription pharmacy […]

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Contest alert: Concrete Garden Projects

October 20, 2011 5 Comments

Reykjavik’s soaring Lutheran Hallgrimskirkja, tallest building in Iceland Icelanders build cathedrals out of concrete. Striking, creative and – most crucially in that seismically excitable area – resilient ones. That’s why you shouldn’t turn your nose up at this adaptable, inexpensive material when it comes to the garden. I’ve been itching to make some garden art […]

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Five things to look for in a garden centre

August 11, 2011 8 Comments

At the end of July, I joined about 70 garden bloggers from North America and the UK in Seattle, Washington, for the annual garden blogging extravaganza called the Fling. Over four days, we saw many, many wonderful gardens, which I’ll try to share with you over the next while. The day before it began, local […]

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Canada Blooms 2011: Gardens and garden trends

March 18, 2011 6 Comments

A full blast of spring from the Home Depot Backyard Oasis. Orange, naturally. Despite the full-on colour above, this year’s Canada Blooms 2011 is not a Big Wow Year. However, it is a year of many Quiet Little Wows, the kind that have you thoughtfully nodding your head. Really, the kind real gardeners like you […]

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