Black Lace arrives in select garden centres in spring 2006. Normally polite Canadian gardeners will be knocking over little old ladies in a bid to secure what will quickly become the latest “must-have” perennial. Some will be reminded of the 1983 Cabbage Patch Kid shortage. Seriously, though. Black Lace elderberry (Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’) from ColorChoice […]
Archives for October 2005
Fall container with Canine schnauzer ‘Shadow’
An amazing selection of fall blooming perennials (50% off!) at David Hunter Garden Centre allowed me to make up some stunning containers. I combined tall, red Carex buchanii (New Zealand sedge) with two varieties of Heuchera; ‘Dolce Peach Melba’ and ‘Velvet Night,’ Ophiogogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ (Black Mondo grass), Bracteantha bracteata ‘Sundaze Golden Beauty,’ Capsicum annuum […]
Even the world’s smallest balcony…
Wouldn’t this be the perfect this for those teeny Juliette balconies appearing in new developments all over Vancouver? (Yes, Degan, yours too!) The Leopoldo City Vegetable Garden is kind of a modern version of a window box or hanging basket, but waaaay more stylish. I like the double-decker styling, which provides more growing room for […]
transcendental kitchen scraps
Bette Midler on gardening: “My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.” From the marvelous Horticultural, Jane Perrone’s organic gardening blog.
I heart edamame
There’s nothing better than a bowl of steamed, lightly-salted edamame (soybeans) with your beer. Why not grow yourself an appetizer? West Coast Seeds, which I love because they’re local (president Mary Ballon and I even went to the same Elementary School, albeit 30 years apart!) sells soybean seeds. West Coast Seeds carries the ‘Early Hakucho’ […]