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The 6th Street and Ave B Community Garden, NYC

I recently returned from a short trip to New York City. This was a purely personal trip so despite the cold I did what I love best, wandering the streets with my camera. My favourite part of the city is The Lower East Side, The East

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

The Great Nightshade Confusion

Bittersweet Nightshade I recently discovered that what I have been identifying as 'Deadly Nightshade' since childhood is actually 'Bittersweet Nightshade' or 'Woody Nightshade' (Solanum dulcamara). I can see where the mistake could be made in terms of similarities in their foliage but both

Winter Growth

The weather has been remarkably warm this winter, so far here in Ontario. Today I was out in the back yard for a few minutes. I just wanted to get some fresh air and it was sunny out and the yard is still fairly green.

Secret Gardens

I'll be traveling to Hamilton, Ontario this Sunday to do a book signing and give two presentations at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Giving gardening presentations and workshops has become a regular part of my spring schedule yet it is something I rarely seem to

Full Disclosure

I think it's important to go against the grain of traditional gardening magazines that focus on hyper-perfect fantasy garden porn and show you that there is no shame in a less-than-perfect garden. Here is a photo of the street garden taken just last week. Keeping up with the

Amateur Phenology

So. Ummmm. Who's a little freaked out by this crazy weather? They say Canada is totally backwards especially for an El Niño year with the west coast all wet and wild and the east unseasonably warm and snow-less. I've heard that things are also a

My 2006 Gardening Highlights

I don't think I've ever done a "Best of" gardening list* but it seems about time to get started. I have done a "Things Killed" list but this year I'm going to accentuate the positive. Picking favourites is difficult for someone like me who tends

Gardening Mad

Because I haven't done so in a while, be advised that this post contains cursing. I received an email from a reader recently who was “disappointed” by the current contest prize pack which is comprised of assorted items from Julie Jackson’s Subversive Cross-stitch line. My initial

Hibiscus Rosea

Hibiscus rosea I bought this Hibiscus rosea plant back in May at the Parkdale Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale. At the time the plant was a wee cutting but just today it opened its first bloom with two buds on the way. I

Portland

With my gardens put to bed, it's time to catch up on all of the things I did over 2006 but neglected to write about. Late last February I took a trip to Portland, Oregon to do a couple of events. One was a presentation on

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

It Lives

I've recently become interested in photographing the decaying garden. It started in the spring when I spent an hour photographing a garden while it was still brown but on the verge of exploding into green. I'm starting to appreciate both the garden and nature's seasons on

Reflections on Where I Am

Since moving to Nelson I've discovered many things, not only about small towns, but also just about living in a climate that is pretty much smack dab in the middle of where I grew up, and where I've been living the past five years. I also have no land.

The Eggling Experience: Update 1

Germination has taken place in both the Eggling and the Real Egg. The Real Egg showed a few sprouts about 6 hours before the Eggling. Sorry about the lack of photo to accompany this update however both seedlings are microscopic in size and I don't have a

Mutant Veggies at the Fall Fair

A friend and I attended The Royal, Toronto's big city attempt at a country fall fair. I was unable to make it over the last few years and forgot how good it is. Fall fairs are like cultural anthropology that happens close to home. There's

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

Container Garden Clean-up

Today was a dry and mild reprieve from the awful cold, wet and sometimes windy late fall weather we've been enduring here in Southern Ontario -- a good day to do some garden work. I have found frozen water in the trays underneath the containers on the

Does Not Contain Spinach

nospinach.jpg Oh man. I don't know what to make of the level of paranoia we've reached about the recent spinach/ecoli outbreak that has compelled Epic Roots, grower and distributor of mache to go this far in disassociating their product from the maligned

Fall garden update

Sorry for being MIA the last little while! I got caught up with finishing my Masters over the summer months (what a way to spend the summer!), and am finally kind of getting things back in order now that it's finished... One of the things on
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