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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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Gross

I've been waiting anxiously for my ladden blackcurrant bush to get enough heat for the currants to ripen for picking, and with the recent heat blast I was in luck. So this weekend I set out to pick pounds and pounds of the suckers to start various jelly,
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Emira : June 27th, 2006 : 6 Comments
Posted in: Link, Pests & Disease, Fruit

Growing Hard Beans

Last week, said friend and I were having a drink and discussing the ups and downs of local eating. He happens to be something of a literal expert on the subject and is a true wealth of info on all foodstuffs local. In my dream
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Emira : June 22nd, 2006 : 5 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Seeds

Seed Ratios

As I've mentioned before I've taken the Square Foot Garden approach to my veggie garden this year, and am so far growing and harvesting a fair crop of our most regularly consumed veggies. I've been taking advantage of the very mild climate of the West Coast here and
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Emira : June 19th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Seeds

Healing with Dandelions

There are a few things I have an abundance of in my garden without trying. They may be familiar to you: dandelions, chickweed and horsetail. And while I curse a blue streak as I remove the horsetail, I can't help but think of my amazing friend Signy each
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Emira : June 6th, 2006 : 1 Comment
Posted in: Veggies, Link

Square Foot Gardening Review

This year, as I was faced with the task of starting up our veggie garden relatively from scratch, I did a bunch of research into garden design, veggie growing, etc and settled on trying the Square Foot method. I did this for two reasons really. The first
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Emira : May 30th, 2006 : 10 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link

Roses are Fussy!

Who knew!?! But seriously. Our house came with a number of lovely roses of different varieties. Some traditional pink, very fragrant lovely ones in the front, two of what I believe are dog roses also in front beds and a very prolific climbing rose on the back fence. READ MORE...
Emira : May 29th, 2006 : 7 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link, Pests & Disease

Perennial Delight

I survived the UBC Botanical Gardens Perinneal Plant Sale and have lived to tell the tale. It could not possibly have been a lovelier day for it, and I had a fabulous time even if I did end up leaving with only half of the things on my
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Emira : May 16th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link, Events

Botany Photo of the Day

The cool kids at the UBC Botanical Gardens have started up a botany photo blog! The structure of the blog is a plant photo a day, with accompanying info, links and resources. They've already passed their 400th post so there's a bevvy of botanical info stuffed into
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Emira : May 11th, 2006 : No Comments
Posted in: Link, Info

Break Open Your Piggy Banks

I've been looking forward to the UBC Botanical Garden's Perennial sale since... well since last year when I missed it. It's coming up this Sunday here in Vancouver and I've been following Gayla's advice and preparing in advance as much as possible (must find granny cart before
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Emira : May 9th, 2006 : 1 Comment
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Lilac Season

Sometime around last weekend the lilac in my backyard burst into bloom. Since then we've been enjoying stunning cut blooms and scent in the house. As I was bringing the cuttings into the house, I was reminded of last year around this time when I made my partner
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Emira : May 7th, 2006 : 7 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Link
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