for those that like the newness and vigour that spring brings, vancouver might just be your place. at times spring seems almost never-ending here. with the micro climates in the city and the relative chill in the higher elevations it is easy to take a half hour drive and find budding tulips weeks after mine [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
may garden
Posted in my gardens, tagged garden, gardening, hanging baskets, shawn cornell, spring, temperate, urban garden, westcoast, windmill palm on 25 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spring Tulips
Posted in design, my gardens, my home, tagged bulbs, design, garden, gardening, parrot tulips, photography, shawn cornell, tulips, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 17 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
it’s sometimes hard to remember in the misery of november (or even december!) when i’m wrist deep in soggy dirt planting bulbs for spring just how worth the discomfort is. yesterday i finally removed the last of a few remaining petals from these dreamy tulips that graced my tiny garden this year. i was amazed [...]
march in vancouver
Posted in my gardens, tagged garden, gardening, photography, shawn cornell, urban garden, vancouver on 10 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Keefer Entrance Originally uploaded by shawn cornell despite hosting the winter olympics, vancouver has had one of the warmest winters on record. this has given an early start to the garden on all fronts. banana leaves are unfurling, bulbs are blooming and everywhere there are new green shoots. i have started planting more containers and [...]
winter garden
Posted in my gardens, tagged design, garden, gardening, hellebore, photography, urban garden, vancouver, west coast, winter on 10 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
one of the surefire signs that spring is just around the corner is the very early blooming hellebores like these double bloomed pink oriental cultivars in my front garden. i snapped this picture last night using my tripod. the twinkle in the background are the white lights that i wrap the trunks of the potted [...]
banana update
Posted in my gardens, tagged banana, garden, gardening, musa basjoo, vancouver on 21 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 on my face [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 moved all [...]
enter the joneses
Posted in other projects, tagged garden, gardening, passion flower, urban garden, vancouver, vines, westcoast on 9 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
as any real estate agent will tell you, curb appeal is important. for those of us that live in one of the city’s many townhouses it is our gardens that allow us to express some individuality on this frontier. we are lucky to have several neighbours that sport green thumbs and i really like how [...]
selby street, toronto
Posted in other projects, tagged cedar, deck, garden, gardening, outdoor living, toronto on 4 June 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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