January in the Garden

January 9, 2012
January in the Garden

Happy New Year! I spent about twenty minutes wandering around in the garden this morning. We have had a remarkably mild winter so far with very little snowfall, and certainly not enough to blanket the yard and garden at all. We’ve had one very cold snap that lasted a couple of days, the kind of [...]

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Merry and Bright

December 24, 2011
Holly

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a shrub of holly outside your door to clip from and bring inside during the holidays? I have a small holly bush in my back yard garden, but nothing like this hedge of the stuff I saw at my friend Jude’s home in Powell River, British Columbia seven years [...]

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November Cosmos

December 21, 2011
Cosmos in Fall

What a bizarre year, weather-wise. I always hope for at least a dusting of snow in time for Christmas, and almost as soon as the clock strikes midnight at the end of Christmas Day feel ready for it all to melt and for the growing season to be upon us. Even now as I write [...]

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How to Raise Back Yard Chickens

November 18, 2011
How to Raise Back Yard Chickens

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to raise chickens in your own back yard? To be able to wander outside on a Sunday morning to root around for your very own fresh eggs to poach for breakfast? An opportunity to learn about how to achieve this is coming up, right here in [...]

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Autumn Colour

November 14, 2011
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We’ve had a gorgeous, mild, late Autumn weekend here in Durham Region and I took the opportunity to capture some of what lingers in the garden this November. There is still a lot of beautiful colour to capture and the autumn palette is my favourite combination of colours. The pale green of the artichokes which [...]

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