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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.

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Cold Frame Advice

This week the weather has definitely started taking a turn to Fall here in Vancouver. While we've got our moments of heat mid day, as soon as that sun gets behind a cloud I find myself reaching for my wool gardening sweater. Bye, bye summer. Sniff. Sniff. One

Vancouver Area Garden Events: Music & More

Two upcoming garden related events to tell those of you in the Vancouver environs about: First up, if you're a fan of Community Gardens and Buttless Chaps (by which I mean the band of course), come on down to the show at the Railway this Thursday

Pinto Progress

Back at the end of June I was pretty darned excited about the prospect of growing some hard beans in my back yard. I was excited about this for two reasons: first, new gardening experiment = fun; and second, the idea of being able to actually grow

Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2006

I stumbled across Hanna's Tomato Tastings over at This Garden is Illegal through a link off Renee's site today. Hanna planted 16 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year and is undertaking a process to document the fruits of each one. She's got notes on size,

Another Anemone Attempt

anemoneI adore Japanese Anemones and when I first started digging in the dirt at our new house last year they were high on my list of plants to get up and running. My grandma has a veritable explosion of them in her yard

Aphid Invasion

This year I've been feeling pretty overwhelmed by aphids in my yard. On my dahlias, my poppies, the shasta daisies and of course the roses. Earlier they tried to take up residence on my pole beans and recently they also tried to move in on my chard. And

The Scented Garden

dahlia and lilyWith summer in full swing most of my garden work these days is about maintaining: watering, weeding and reseeding the odd head of lettuce. For the past week or so these chores have been particularly lovely as a few of

Square Foot Gardening Update: Box #2

Agh. A week went by and I ran out of time to do a review of what’s going on with my second square foot gardening box (a 4’x 4’ square), and now that I look back at this photo that was taken only a week ago, I realize

Square foot Gardening Update: Box #1

The heat, mixed with a few days of rain this week, sent the various plants in my two square foot garden boxes (to avoid confusion that's two 4'x4' squares) to growin' up a storm. This weekend I spent a whole lot of time staking, harvesting and replanting and

Community Garden Plant Sale (Vancouver)

Hey there Vancouverites! One of the year's best plant sales is coming up this weekend at the Cottonwood and Strathcona Community Gardens. I'll include details below, but first some thoughts and photos from my recent visits to the Cottonwood side of the gardens. Cottonwood Community Gardens READ MORE...
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