Winter Aconite
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Click title to see full photo. Witch Hazel (Wide)
Click title to see full photo. What’s on Your Windowsill? (Plus Giveaway)
A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine! Witch Hazel
Click title to see full photo. Ackee Tree
Click title to see full photo. Repurposed for the Garden: Flag Highlighter
When the folks behind this product sat down to envision a highlighter/post-it flag hybrid, I hardly think they knew they were creating a useful tool for gardeners. Students, office managers, and anal retentive note takers? Descending into the Valley of Desolation
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Click title to see full photo. Grow Great Grub Toronto Book Launch Party
Last Wed, Feb 24 I hosted the official Toronto Grow Great Grub book launch party. Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to help me celebrate the launch of my new book, Spiral Ginger (Costus)
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Click title to see full photo. The Requirement to Garden
This is a long one. I suggest you make a cup of tea and a snack before starting.
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your Echeveria ‘Doris Taylor’
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Click title to see full photo. More Seeds and Such That Will Need to Be Stuck into Some Soil, Somewhere
Last week I traveled to Montreal to speak at the Montreal Seed Fair and sign copies of the "Grow Great Grub" book in support of the collective food gardening group, Action Communiterre.
Toronto's False Roselle
Click title to see full photo. Frangipani Tree (Barbados)
Click title to see full photo. Repurposed for the Garden: Forceps
The other day, while shopping in the plant section of the Montreal Botanical Garden's gift store I came upon a long pair of forceps that a staff member must have forgotten, left sitting among the cacti.
In that moment it occurred to me, aha, Caladium ‘Thai Beauty’
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GARDEN SHOW & TELL
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday February 2, 2010
- Grow Great Grub Book
- Gayla's new book, “Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces” (Clarkson Potter/Random House) hits bookstores across North America!
- Learn how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.
Tuesday February 2, 2010
- Martha Stewart Living Radio Show
- Morning Living
- 8am EST
Saturday, February 13 & Sunday, February 14, 2010
- Montréal Botanical Garden / Jardin botanique de Montréal
- Montreal Seedy Saturday
- Montreal, Canada
- There will be free workshops and seminars, a seed exchange table and garden author Gayla Trail will be launching her new book, Grow Great Grub.
- Contact: Julie Richard animation@actioncommuniterre.qc.ca
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
- Grow Great Grub Book Launch Party
- Lula Lounge
- 1585 Dundas Street West
- Toronto, Canada
- 6:30-10:30pm
- FREE Admission!
- Come out and help celebrate the launch of the book! Door prizes, book giveaways, seed starting station, nibbles, and music by DJ General Eclectic (Footprints, Uma Nota).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
- Canada Blooms
- Toronto, Canada
- 5pm
- Stage/Lecture Room – Salon 105, Hall A
- Set it and Forget It (Well Almost): How to build a self-watering container for finicky squashes, tomatoes, and other water-loving edibles using recycled materials.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
- East York Garden Club
- Toronto, Canada
- 7:30pm
- Gayla will be presenting on the topic of City Gardening.
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Tomatoes to Grow in Containers (Or Anywhere Else for That Matter)
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Plant Shall Eat Plant
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Tomatoes Like Milk
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