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Emira: Vancouver, Canada

Bio: Emira would happily spend countless hours in her garden, but tends to spend most of her time in front of the computer as partner in the Vancouver website design firm Raised Eyebrow. In the sunmmer of 2005 she became a home (and garden) owner, and so far rescuing and unearthing neglected plants is by far her favorite renovation project. While she is certainly a sucker for a nursery or a great seed catalogue, she prefers plants that have stories or people attached to them, and loves sharing cuttings and transplants with gardening pals. She never ventures into the dirt without her gardening clogs or her feline companion.

Email: ourdomicile@gmail.com

URL: http://domicile.typepad.com

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Lilac FAQs

I saw a comment pop up on an old post of mine from last May about Lilacs that I thought I would pull out and do my best to address here. The comment, or rather question was about a healthy seeming lilac bush that doesn't seem to

Bulb Tip Sheets

My favourite mail-order bulb folks Botanus have added a "Tip Sheets" section to their website to house PDFs with handy info on various bulb related gardening tasks. The library isn't huge as of yet, though they promise they'll be adding to it. There's a few different

Something Green

When I happened upon Maggie Mason's Nesting Terrariums over at MightyGirl the other day in a fit of blog catch-up I breathed a bit sigh of lovely. Something green. Finally. My gardnerself has been withering under the nasty weather we've had on the west-coast of Canada

Mary Jane’s Farm

I posted about this over on my personal blog this morning, so apologies for the cross posting for any keeners out there. I found Mary Jane's Farm, a magazine/resource/catalogue/lovely-thingy, the other night at Chapters (of all places), while killing time waiting for my fella to

Out of My Element

Frozen RoseAs I mentioned in an earlier post about turbid water, Vancouver BC (and environs) has been subject to some serious weather lately. November brought us floods, then plenty o'snow, followed by a serious drop in temperature, more snow and now a

Water, Water Everywhere

"Turbid" is a word that has been used far more than usual 'round the South Coast of British Columbia (Canada) lately. Those of us who live in Vancouver, North Vancouver and Burnaby are now well into our second week of not being able to drink the water

Fall Clean Up: Perfect Timing

This may not seem as remarkable to those of you currently outside of the South Coast of our Canadian shores, but I managed to get in a good three hours of garden clean up this weekend and not get soaking wet. This my friends, almost defies the laws

Garlic Lessons Learned

The only remaining bulbs I had on my list to plant for the Fall was my garlic. Planting out the garlic required a bit more preparation as I had to clean up some space in my veggie beds getting rid of finished beans, cukes and some arugula that

Bulbs: That Time of Year

I've yet to get to building my cold frame, and fear it might be a bit late though I'll probably still give it a whirl. Our temperatures here have been shockingly warm so far so if I hurry I may just be able to cash in with a

Pinto Success!

pinto beans I have made much of my project to grow some genuine protein in my garden in the form of some humble pinto beans here at The Dirt and so it is with glowing pride that I come here to share
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