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 ‘spring’
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 »
welcome back!
Posted in my gardens, tagged container gardening, design, garden, macro lens, photography, shawn cornell, spring, urban garden, vancouver, west coast on 15 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
i know it has been while since i have written anything or posted any pictures of the garden. i do apologise, and really i have no excuse other than the usual. as many of you know, vancouver didn’t have a stellar winter, and even now there are remnants of the destruction (how dramatic) it caused [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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