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Garden Essentials
A Great Blog on Sat 03 Jul 2010 at 5:30 PM
The other day I tweeted that I was planting lavender and, furthermore, no garden should be without lavender. I have just moved and my new house has a landscaping garden that is quite nice, was designed
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Bit of an Unpleasant Topic
A Great Blog on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 9:59 AM
I was speaking the other day with one of my favourite gardening friends—the gravelly-voiced divorcée with a fabulous garden—and asked her where her compost was located. "Oh, I can't have compost.
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Easy Veg
A Great Blog on Sun 07 Mar 2010 at 6:09 PM
Well, the peas, lettuce, broad beans, and arugula are either in the ground or going in soon. Should I stop there? Truth is, I don't have a lot of time for my edible garden this spring AND I'm moving in
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Worm Tales
A Great Blog on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 2:15 PM
I might have spent money I didn't need to spend. Well, I did spend money I didn't need to spend. So many gardening items can be free, or at least cheap. Plants from seeds or from fellow-gardeners. Tool
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Wisley Children's Garden
A Great Blog on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 2:55 PM
The Royal Horticultural Society garden at Wisley is very kid-friendly, with a spacious glasshouse, an interactive 'Root Zone' worthy of a commerical science centre, and a teaching garden that offers "h
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Wavy Roof
A Great Blog on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 2:44 PM
The living roof at the California Academy of Sciences is nearly 200,000 square feet that dramatically dips and mounds atop the completely renovated 85-year old building. The building was designed by It
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Blanc/Herzog and deMeuron 1
A Great Blog on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 2:39 PM
The CaixaForum Madrid, a venue for visual and performing arts, sports on of Patrick Blanc's tapestry-like living walls. Overlooking a public plaza, the wall covers nearly 500 square metres and holds 15
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Greening Your House
A Great Blog on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 11:10 PM
Some ideas from the New York Times including, of course, green roofs.Photo from the New York Times by Michelle Litvin.
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Put up a Parking Lot
A Great Blog on Thu 26 Mar 2009 at 11:14 PM
From the firm of Wolfgang Oehme and James Van Sweden, known for their use of grasses and perennials, often natives, a garden on the roof of the Federal Reserve Parking lot in Washington, DC. The 30-yea
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Derry and Tom's
A Great Blog on Thu 19 Mar 2009 at 11:16 PM
The former Derry and Tom's department store on Kensington High Street in London has one of the oldest and most original planted roofs in London. Built in the 1930s, the roof garden contains three theme
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Garden Show Green Wall
A Great Blog on Fri 06 Mar 2009 at 11:49 PM
The Seattle Flower & Garden Show had its fair share of green roofs this year, some more successful than others in terms of impact. In terms of whether any of them could survive as green roofs out in th
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Anger Management
A Great Blog on Mon 15 Dec 2008 at 10:05 PM
A good sign from the London Underground Tube Diary. Anger the doors but be sure to mind the gap.
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I Love This Baby
A Great Blog on Mon 08 Sep 2008 at 9:19 PM
A selling exhibition at stately Chatsworth House in Derbyshire features this giant loveable baby. The exhibition, titled Beyond Limits, runs until early November. The baby's name is Planet and he was c
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Unhasty Invasion
A Great Blog on Wed 03 Sep 2008 at 9:34 PM
From the Independent comes a story about an alien species of snail that have overrun part of England. Well, a very small part of England. The snails, called the Cliveden snails after the stately home w
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Topher Delaney
A Great Blog on Wed 03 Sep 2008 at 9:33 PM
The San Francisco landscape designer is known for her healing gardens (at hospitals around the country). Her designs reflect a deep exploration of each garden's relationship to the people for whom it i
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Slug hors d'oeuvres
A Great Blog on Sat 30 Aug 2008 at 9:40 PM
A banana slug in Sooke, BC, making short work of a potted dahlia. That was just the appetizer.
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Truth in Advertising
A Great Blog on Mon 25 Aug 2008 at 9:42 PM
In June, I posted a picture of a new David Austin rose, Sir John Betjamin. I saw the almost-real thing at Hampton Court this year and took this photo. I say almost-real because it was in the display an
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Another Lovely Rose
A Great Blog on Tue 10 Jun 2008 at 11:45 AM
I wasn't at Chelsea this year, but if I had been there I'm sure this rose would have caught my eye. A new introduction from David Austin, Sir John Betjamin. Scrumptious.
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Chubby Baby
A Great Blog on Fri 06 Jun 2008 at 11:46 AM
Some things look cuter when they're chubby. Sadly, middle-aged women are not among them. But hedgehogs are. Read more about this big bundle of joy.
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Vancouver Library
A Great Blog on Wed 26 Mar 2008 at 1:32 PM
Built in 1995, the roof on the Vancouver Public Library was designed to echo the Fraser River and its surroundings. The roof is planted in 14 inches of growing medium laid over a drainage layer and a r
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Meticulous Gardening
A Great Blog on Tue 29 Jan 2008 at 11:47 AM
I look out in dismay at the fact that my old friend oxalis is already invading the garden despite the fact that the temperature hovers close to freezing and only the brave snowdrops have emerged. Perha
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Outdoor Boudoir
A Great Blog on Sun 27 Jan 2008 at 12:08 PM
The famous grass bed, with sedges and sweet-smelling Acorus as a mattress, designed by John Greenlee in Pomona, California. Taken about 8 years ago.
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Sleeping Beauty
A Great Blog on Mon 21 Jan 2008 at 12:10 PM
Julian, fallen asleep to the tune of 'If I had a Million Dollars' by the Bakenaked Ladies. Now that's peaceful.
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My Furniture Line?
A Great Blog on Thu 18 Oct 2007 at 12:12 PM
This is the Fiona chair, sold by The River Cottage company of Maine. It is, apparently, Charming around the dining table or otherwise around the house. Waterproof, sun-loving and you can use this chair
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Lost and Found
A Great Blog on Sun 05 Aug 2007 at 12:13 PM
One of my favorite things in the garden are objets trouvé. This pretty paving circle was built after the owners dug out an old pond on their property. Although they liked the pond, raccoons repeatedly
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Musing
A Great Blog on Fri 27 Jul 2007 at 12:17 PM
I don't think there's a much more appealing prospect than living in a mews house in London. Or at least having one you can visit.What makes a mews house so appealing is that it is by definition quiet a
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The Green Hour
A Great Blog on Fri 27 Jul 2007 at 12:16 PM
A young man was in the tasting room today. He was very excited about the still. It seems he is a fan of absinthe. Posed behind the tasting bar, I asked him if I would have made a good subject for the m
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Whew
A Great Blog on Tue 24 Jul 2007 at 12:04 PM
This is a relief. Relax! Don’t feel you have to be too tidy.I must tell my friends.
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Still Here
A Great Blog on Fri 20 Jul 2007 at 12:18 PM
Victoria Spirits celebrates the arrival of the new Meuller still from Germany. Here's what it looked like:A lot of pieces. No assembly instructions."Hello? Germany? Can you send a wrench?"
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Hornby Island
A Great Blog on Fri 13 Jul 2007 at 12:14 PM
One of the most beautiful trees in the world, often called madrone or madrona, Arbutus menziesii is a Pacific Coast native with a limited range thanks to its exacting cultural demands. I recently heard
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Events in Victoria
07 Sep 2010
Cut Offs -Theme Party- Jeremy Baker (The Zone), Arowbe of Times Neue Roman, Dj Nigel at Lucky Bar
3:30 PM
MAX & RUBY LIVE at Royal Theatre
6:30 PM
MAX & RUBY LIVE at Royal Theatre
7:00 PM
SEBASTIAN BRITNEFF at The Superior
08 Sep 2010
Victoria Welsh Society presents: Cor Godre'r Aran, Welsh Male Voice Choir at Alix Goolden Hall
Rock Island Ramblers at Hermann's Jazz Club
