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How Lovely Are Thy Branches
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are thy branches. Not only green when summer’s here But in the coldest time of year. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are thy branches....
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Say it Again Sue
Happy New Year fellow gardeners! It’s a week or two into 2014 and I’d like to bid a fond farewell to 2013. Let me rephrase that. I’m so glad to see the arse-end of the year 2013! It wasn’t my finest...
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How Design Savvy Are You?
Good morning class. Today I have surprise for you – a quiz! That’s right, a quiz. No wait, don’t go – it’ll be fun! Don’t you want to test your design savvy? No one but you will ever know if you had...
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Let’s Talk About the 3 R’s
We all know the importance of the 3 r’s – readin’, ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic. No not those 3 r’s. Reduce, re-use, and recycle? No not those either. I’m referring to the 3r’s of romance – Rubies, Roses and...
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How Design Savvy Are You? The Answers.
Good morning class. This morning we’ll be taking up last month’s quiz (if you haven’t completed the quiz yet, stop reading, go do it and come back later). So how did y’all do? Not as good as you...
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Soon……..but not quite yet.
Yesterday morning my sister-in-law, who lives in a part of the country 3 full climate zones warmer than here, sent me this photo – I suspect it was one of those email jokes making the rounds. I...
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Colour – the Absence of White
My back yard was still covered in snow as of yesterday – or to be more accurate, my back yard was covered in snow again as of yesterday. Spring had teased us with some warm-ish weather for a week or...
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There and Back – a Hortigeek’s Tale
Greetings fellow gardeners! I must apologize for ignoring this blog of late, but I was on vacation for a few weeks. Vacation you ask – at this time of year? What garden designer in her right mind goes...
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There and Back; a Hortigeek’s Tale, Part 2 ~ California Here we Come ~
We left Portland on Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend. Apparently traffic is bumper-to-bumper heading to the coast on holiday weekends, but since it was Saturday, our hope was that everyone would’ve...
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There and Back; a Hortigeek’s Tale, Part 3 ~ Going Coastal ~
Our time in wine country had been amazing – Len has professional associates in the area so we’d been treated very well. The coast was calling though, and for me this was the most anticipated part of...
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Colouring Your Garden
It’s baaaaaack – the white stuff that is. Earlier this year I began a discussion on garden colour with a post entitled: Colour – the Absence of White. The title was a play on words of sorts – both a...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 2
Happy New Year y’all! If you overindulged in last night’s new year’s celebrations and are currently paying the price, you might want to leave this post for another day – it contains lots of words and...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 3; Value Added
“Nowhere in nature can you find purer color than sunlight passing through the petal of a flower.” ~ Larry K. Stephenson, Artist ~ Sunlit petals – the imagery evokes such warmth. Indeed there...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 4; Saturated Solutions
A week or so ago, while out for a walk with my sister in her inner-city neighbourhood, I heard the familiar sound of Robin chirps. It took me a minute to realize that the sound was out of place on this...
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Fifty Shades of Gray ~ Colouring Your Garden; Part 5
Ha! You thought this post was going be about the tawdry exploits of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey didn’t you? Tsk, tsk, naughty gardeners. Sorry all you lusty ladies, but this post is literally...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 6; Putting Colour to Work
Greetings loyal readers. It seems I haven’t published a post in more than 5 months – I guess time flies when you’re having fun…………..or when you’re really busy. And a very busy summer it has been, both...
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Colouring Your Garden, Part 7 – You Can’t Believe Everything You See
It’s the last week of March and it’s again been more than five months since I last posted to this blog. I just don’t know where the time goes. I’m as busy as I’ve ever been, and yet I feel like I’m...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 8; More Optical Illusions
Well that was a lot of work. The whole summer I mean – and the fall. And the spring before the summer – and the winter before that. When gardening season wrapped up last year, I promised myself I...
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Colouring Your Garden – Part 9: Colour Schemes
Have you ever had the experience of driving along on a summer day and somewhere in your peripheral vision, you catch sight of a gorgeous garden? Slamming on the brakes, you stop and stare, momentarily...
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A Red by Any Other Name
“Hey Mom, what’s your favourite colour?” I heard this question often when my boys were young. I could never give them a definitive answer though. “It depends,” I would say. “The colours I like for my...
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