they may not look pretty yet, but they will. i think i am going to move the nz flax in front of the nanners so i don’t have to look at these stalks all winter. m didn’t really think they would last the winter, especially with no protection, but even the smallest of [...]
Archive for February, 2008
banana update
Posted in my gardens, tagged banana, garden, gardening, musa basjoo, vancouver, west coast, winter on 28 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
oh that’s right, it’s not just my garden
Posted in my gardens, tagged vancouver, garden, west coast, gardening, winter, hyacinth on 28 February 2008 | No Comments »
the other day i looked down on the garden from my bedroom window and saw little j mucking about in my garden! as hard as it was to see him drag a small trowel through the ground where i was sure there was new bamboo shoots growing - there wasn’t, i should have known [...]
ahhh dirt under my nails
Posted in my gardens, tagged vancouver, garden, gardening, winter, magnolia, fertilizer, urban garden on 21 February 2008 | No Comments »
there is something freeing about being an adult and playing about in the dirt. it’s still early, but there are things to be done! i always love giving my plants an early spring fertilizer, nothing too heavy as i like fertilize more often with less, but enough to nourish them at this early [...]
sunlight on shanghai alley
Posted in my home, tagged design, garden, gardening, shanghai alley, vancouver, west coast, winter on 16 February 2008 | No Comments »
i took this photo of the backside of the townhouses looking up from shanghai alley. you can just see the tip of the sun tower rising up over my neighbours’ roof.
it has been nice to be able to show my friend around in the sun! as we drove out to horseshoe bay along [...]
a lawn up high
Posted in my gardens, tagged design, garden, gardening, grass, lawn, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 13 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
k, so it’s not really that high - more like the 5th floor, but it’s still pretty cool. when i first looked at this townhouse many years ago it was this urban oasis that really sold me on the property. the crane in the background remind where we are.
i have another friend in town [...]
biatch gardening
Posted in my gardens, tagged chusan, garden, gardening, palm, purmulas, vancouver, west coast, windmill palm, winter on 12 February 2008 | No Comments »
i know that not everyone likes the purmulas, but i couldn’t resist them. i bought 30, all fuchsia with a yellowy orange centre and added them to the potted windmill palms in the front. my friend tracey bell calls it bitch gardening and does it in the winter whenever someone comes from elsewhere in [...]
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