last year at this time i was still living in toronto’s downtown core. the backyard really needed some help and we decided to have it totally redone so we could enjoy it for the summer. i designed the decking and fencing to both provide privacy from neighbouring houses and allow us to spend time outside [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
selby street, toronto
Posted in other projects, tagged cedar, deck, garden, gardening, outdoor living, toronto on 4 June 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 has sprung [...]
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.
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 look out [...]
red star in the evening
Posted in my gardens, tagged cordyline, garden, gardening, red cordyline, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 18 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
despite the temperature in vancouver being below the norms for this time of year i for one really cannot complain. after 4 years of toronto’s long winters, i welcome this comparatively early warmth, flowers reaching skyward and the ability to spend more and more of my time outside and, more specifically, in the garden. as [...]
j’s garden
Posted in my gardens, tagged garden, gardening, hyacinth, spring, vancouver, west coast on 12 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
j’s hyacinths have slowly showing themselves to us over the past few days. both j and i were surprised when they turned out to be pink instead of purple – but they look fun beside the nz flax with its pink stripe.
rising with sun
Posted in my gardens, tagged fatsia japonica, garden, gardening, japanese aralia, spring, vancouver, west coast on 12 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i awoke to a sun beam streaming through a misaligned horizontal blind this morning at 8:30. i could hear that justin was already taking his shower and i thought how lucky we were that little j’s classes didn’t start until a civilized 9:30. when i got downstairs i could see that the north facing planter [...]
this is not fish soup
Posted in my gardens, tagged design, garden, gardening, urban garden, vancouver, winter on 3 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
what a great weekend – m was in town, the weather was terrific and i even got a few chores in the garden done! all weekend i have been dreaming about making a vietnamese fish soup. today i was going to the boats at grandville island marina to see what was caught this morning, take [...]
banana update
Posted in my gardens, tagged banana, garden, gardening, musa basjoo, vancouver, west coast, winter on 28 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 pseudo-stems are [...]
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