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I feel like paella tonight

September 30, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Did you have any idea that you could grow your own saffron? Saffron is the dried, bright red stigmas of the flower Crocus sativus, which is a relatively easy-to-grow perennial. According to The Farmer’s Almanac, it grows well in Zones 6 through 9. It lies dormant all summer, then pushes its purple blossoms up through […]

Filed Under: Bulbs and Tubers, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: crocus, saffron

Tomato blight

September 29, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

The last few years I’ve grown tomatoes, they’ve come down with the blight (kind of the tomato equivalent of bubonic plague). What to do? I had dinner with some Italian friends, and we had a rousing discussion of how to prevent/cure tomato blight, which dissolved into conflicting “true stories” involving home remedies and nylon stockings. […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles

The Eden Project

September 26, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

How cool is this? You know when, in sci-fi movies, an alien bacteria creates an inhospitable Earth, the heroes simply band together and create a biosphere-type orb out of plastic wrap that they can live in safely while repopulating the planet? Tim Smit, co-discoverer of The Lost Gardens of Heligan, who I’m beginning to think […]

Filed Under: Gardens to Visit

Feed the birds

September 25, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

…Tuppence a bag… (now see if that lovely Mary Poppins song doesn’t get lodged in your head). It’s officially autumn. Crisp air greets us in the morning, the leaves are blazing red and orange, and the koi are looking a little sluggish in their pond. It’s also time to be thinking about feeding the birds […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Living

Adventure: Nitobe Memorial Garden

September 18, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Yesterday my boyfriend Ben and I went to Nitobe Memorial Garden at UBC to check out a matcha festival. Considered to be one of the top traditional Japanese gardens in North America, Nitobe Memorial Garden honours the Japanese scholar, educator and diplomat Dr. Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933). Nitobe is meticulously designed and maintained, down to each […]

Filed Under: Gardens to Visit

Mmm… rotting flesh

September 14, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

Plants that smell like rotting flesh to attract pollinators include the dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), which has a burgundy leaf-like flower out of which flows a slender, black appendage. The plant is native to the Mediterranean, but this one “showed up one day” in the Bronx, New York, garden of Rosemarie Dieda. The plant was […]

Filed Under: Perennials

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

September 14, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

In its heyday, Heligan Manor, the former seat of the Tremayne family, was one of the glories of Cornwall, England. Almost completely self-sufficient, it had a number of farms, quarries, woods, a brickworks, a flour mill, a sawmill, a brewery, and productive orchards and kitchen gardens. Its land extending over a thousand acres, it was […]

Filed Under: Gardens to Visit

Do doll parts have a place in garden design?

September 14, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

Timmerman Daugherty, the artist behind the “permanent flowers,” as she calls them, (shown above), rescues abandoned items, deconstructs/reconstructs them, and gives them a good home. View her bizarre home and garden at her website, weirdgardens.com. “Bottle trees” (foreground in photo above), mosaic tables and sculpture, and yes, doll parts, play a prominent role in this […]

Filed Under: Garden Design

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