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LED overload

December 31, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Remember when, in the early 2000s, “extreme” became the lazy marketer’s solution to naming new products and we were suddenly bombarded with extreme fruit juices, extreme razors and even extreme shower heads? Tack the word “extreme” onto any lame product and suddenly – it’s cool! That’s how I’m feeling about LED technology these days. Yes, […]

Filed Under: Indoors, Raving and Whining

New year’s resolutions for the garden

December 30, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

1. I will be patient. I will get to know my new plot of land1 before rushing to fill it with trend-of-the-minute plants. Please note, however, that I do not have the ability to wait for a full year, as some garden authorities recommend, to note sun exposure. I know my limitations. 2. I will […]

Filed Under: My garden

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to all my friends in the blogosphere. Wishing you the best and brightest for you and your gardens in 2006.

Filed Under: Holiday

Gardening Gifts for Newsmakers

December 23, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Since, on this Friday before the Chrismmukah weekend, no one seems to be doing any work anyway, I thought I’d pass on this slightly-amusing celebrity “Gardening Gift Guide” by Wes Porter of Canada Free Press. Pamela Anderson The temptation to offer a perfect pair of Mammilaria cactus was almost overwhelming until the Weekly World News […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Miscellaneous

Moss Graffiti

December 21, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

I’ll just say it right off the bat: I love moss. I’ve always loved it. When I was a kid, there was a clearing in the forest I lived next to, and in the centre was a stone absolutely thick with the most beautiful emerald-green moss. I was convinced (and still secretly believe) that faeries […]

Filed Under: How To, Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerilla gardening, moss, moss graffiti, moss graffitti, moss grafitti, moss paint, moss slurry, moss starter

The Instructables

December 20, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Heavy Petal readers, meet Instructables. It’s a website devoted to collaborative DIY: participants show (step-by-step!) what they make and how others can make it. The “what” varies widely: from how to make a marshmallow gun to how to sew your own bra to how to divine water. At the moment, I could only find one […]

Filed Under: How To, Resources

Tuscan Farm Gardens

December 19, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Like Girl Gone Gardening, I dream of owning a small farm. I’d grow my own organic produce, raise chickens and goats, sell eggs and veggies and bouquets of flowers at a roadside honesty stand, and have way too many cats. Sigh… Tuscan Farm Gardens is one couple’s version of that dream. Their 80 acre family […]

Filed Under: Gardens to Visit, Pacific Northwest

Poodle flower arrangement

December 17, 2005 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

  Oh my.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

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