it feels like only yesterday that summer began and yet here we are already in fall - there’s a chill in the air to prove it! despite the cooler temperatures september is traditionally a decent month for sun in vancouver and yesterday (and today) it has graced us with its presence. i got a few [...]
Archive for the ‘my gardens’ Category
a fall day
Posted in my gardens, tagged Abyssinian, banana, garden, shawn cornell, succulents, vancouver, west coast on 23 September 2008 | No Comments »
late summer colour
Posted in my gardens, tagged canna, colour, crocosmia, garden, pacific north west, photography, summer west coast, vancouver on 17 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
no words for me today.
banana update
Posted in my gardens, tagged banana, garden, gardening, musa basjoo, vancouver on 21 August 2008 | No Comments »
in my small back garden it is the bananas that truly make it feel like a tropical oasis. my nanners sure have come a long way since their ugly winter stem-only days.
summer snippets
Posted in my gardens, tagged Abyssinian, banana, garden, gardening, musa basjoo, pug, summer, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 18 August 2008 | No Comments »
there is nothing quite like a sunny day in vancouver. my garden is its happiest when amun ra graces us with his presence. you can practically watch the banana leaves unfurl and the canna reach for the sky. as for my own preference, i can think of nothing better than the sun [...]
away from the garden…
Posted in my gardens, tagged bamboo, banana, city garden, flax, gardening, gunnera, musa basjoo, pacific northwest, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 29 July 2008 | No Comments »
it seems that i have been away from my garden for a longtime - and it’s true! in mid-july we headed back to do some work on our place in toronto - i will not bore you with details, but in short, i hate drywall. the day we returned i was forced to [...]
so many days of sun!
Posted in my gardens, tagged canna, garden, gardening, gunnera, hens and chicks, succulents, urban garden on 3 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
while the past few days have not been what i would call warm, they have been sunny and my plants have been thrilled. everywhere i look in my garden there is new leaves, buds and shoots are reaching for the sky. the giant cane bamboo that i planted in the back planter boxes [...]
nighttime in the garden
Posted in my gardens, tagged garden, gardening, new zealand flax, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 16 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
i like having lights in the garden - i want to enjoy my plants whether or not the sun is in the sky. i snapped this the other night looking down on the garden.
some deserved sun
Posted in my gardens, tagged flowers, gardening, gardens, vancouver, west coast on 15 May 2008 | No Comments »
if you’re like me a sunny day can erase the memories of days worth of overcast rainy ones. today was no different - if the next few days stay this way it might just be enough to carry me through the rest of the month. luckily i spent the afternoon with a [...]
spring entrance
Posted in my gardens, tagged garden, gardening, spring, urban garden, vancouver, westcoast on 14 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
driving our son j to school in the morning isn’t really much of a chore for me. the biggest traffic snaggle is coming around pacific avenue through yaletown but to be honest, it rarely takes me 20 minutes to travel from downtown to point grey. on the drive i am continually on the [...]
teaser
Posted in my gardens, my home, tagged gardening, urban garden, vancouver, westcoast on 8 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
i realise that i have been absent from my relatively new post in the blogging world so i thought i would just check in. there has been plenty of action at our townhouse since i last wrote. the small back patio underwent some changes with the addition of a cedar deck, more planter [...]