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Your Questions Answered: Gift Orchids

A constant stream of questions comes flooding through my inbox on a regular basis. I try and answer as many as I can but it's quite an arduous task. It suddenly occured to me that maybe I should start answering these questions publically where everyone can

Grow This: Paphiopedilum Orchid

paph.jpg Living room gardeners needn’t be limited to corner-store variety orchids. Paphiopedilum, aka ‘slipper’ orchids (not to be confused with the cold hardy North American Lady’s Slipper) are an exotic tropical that produce a stunning, solo blossom sometime between late fall and spring.

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

Window Shopping

I'm a sucker for email newsletters. They offer information and window shopping all in one great big ol' job-distracting, e-mail notifying beep. So, imagine my surprise when today's Best Bets from New York Magazine was gardencentric! Granted, the suggestions are

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

Amaze your friends this holiday season (Part 2)

Are you, like me, sitting at your desk reading crafty blogs, itching to get home and work on your own projects? Sneak in a little bit of time to make your own wrapping paper there at work. Pssst: I won't tell if you

Plant-Related Holiday Gifts You Can Make

I was just thinking... seems like THE HOLIDAY SEASON is here, or something. I am very good at shutting out that which I would rather not see but with the powers that be pummeling us over the head with it earlier and earlier every year, it's kinda hard

Showering Them with… Water

I closed up shop on my rooftop garden this weekend. The terra cotta containers are all brought indoors and stored away for the winter. I'll admit that while I'm sad to see it end for another season, I have begun to realize that I really need

Eggling versus Real Egg: Fight

eggling1.jpg While setting up my "Eggling Experience" I thought it would fall more into the spirit of the much loved but long forgotten "The Lab" section of this site if I were to make this into an Eggling versus Real Egg experiment.

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
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