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Garden Musings

Seed Types – How to Understand the Seed Catalog Terminology

The seed catalogs are starting to arrive in the mailbox, giving us a glimpse of spring to come. As gardeners, these are our winter dream books. They give us information about seed types as well as glossy photos of the vegetables, herbs and ornamentals we can grow, and always include great planting tips.
What exactly are [...]

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10 Best Holiday Gifts for Gardeners

Surfing around on the internet this week, looking for gift ideas for my gardening friends, I found this interesting article that gave 10 great ideas that any gardener would love. So, I’ve posted it here for you to check out for yourself. And I’ve included a couple of links to get you started.
Stumped about what [...]

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Photographs are Garden Memories

One of the most rewarding as well as most encompassing tasks I’ve faced as a gardener over the past 5 years has been the landscaping around our home here in BC’s Gulf Islands. These small but absolutely gorgeous islands are one of the best places in the world to live, in my opinion.
The islands are [...]

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Birds — Nature in Flight

One of the most enjoyable things about living in a rural area is the constant presence of the birds. With each season, different birds arrive or leave, while others are here as permanent residents. The sea gulls are a constant, along with the pileated woodpecker and the little sparrows. Others come and go as their [...]

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Garden Quotes

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page
Share your verdant heart with us – send us your favorite garden quotations by entering a comment, and we’ll compile them into our Quote Garden page so that you can come back to over and over for inspiration.

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Spring is a Time of Change

Things change fast in the spring garden. My tulips have been gorgeous this year – huge red ones with black and yellow centers and double white ones with ruffled petals.
Now they’re almost finished, but as they fade, the brilliant blue of the Siberian squill is adding color to the gardens.

Behind them, the rhodos are starting [...]

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Spring Has Sprung!

Here it is only February 19th, and it feels as if spring is here.
My daylilies are a good 6 inches tall, forsythia is blooming, the primula blossoms are unfolding, and yesterday, in the afternoon sunshine outside my door, where the pieris japonica is in bloom, bees were humming and buzzing!
Now that’s a sign of spring [...]

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New Beginnings

The cold snap of December has given way to cool and cloudy days of early January, when the temperatures rarely descend below freezing at night. Days are a mix of rainshowers and gray clouds that occasionally allow a bit of blue to peep through.
Here in the Gulf Islands of BC, small signs of spring are [...]

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