So I just crawled out from under my rock and discovered Eva Solo, launched in 1997 as an offshoot of a 60-year old Danish company. Driven by design duo Claus and Henrik, Eva Solo makes sweet product magic. I am pretty much in love with each of their products – and there are many in […]
Archives for February 2007
Hallelujah, gardening season is upon us!
Even if you’re not into Valentine’s Day, as a gardener, you gotta love it. Sure, it’s still cold and rainy, but the days are getting longer (at least in the Northern Hemisphere). For me, Valentine’s Day marks a turning point: I can stick stuff in the ground. In my USDA Zone 8b garden, I’m planting […]
NW Flower and Garden Show
Just a reminder to BC and Washington State dwellers that the Northwest Flower and Garden Show starts today and runs through February 18. I’m not going to make the trek this year, but it’s always a great place to get inspired and drop some coin. If you’re so inclined…
Happy Valentine’s day
Crocuses aren’t usually the flower that immediately springs to mind when I think of Valentine’s Day. But according to the Royal Horticultural Society, Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus, is also known as St. Valentine’s Rose. I looked it up, and found this here: Crocuses flower around Valentine’s Day. Krokos was the Greek name for the […]
Fun with the Rooter Pot
Lee Valley carries this neat little system called The Rooter Pot, which is essentially a fancy version of the traditional air layering method of propagating cuttings. Basically, it allows you to create a good-sized plant from a stem or branch of another. You choose your stem, wound it, slap some root stimulator on the wound, […]
Book review: Tulipomania by Mike Dash
To call me a bookworm would be a pretty accurate statement. My heart races when I enter a library or bookstore; I have more books than I have space to house them; I was an English major in university. Reading pretty much rivals gardening in my world (rather, they compliment each other very well as […]
But is it really heirloom?
Ottawa Hortiphilia recently posted about large seed companies jumping on the heirloom seed bandwagon. It’s something I’ve also noticed recently: the Big Guns offering more and more supposedly-heirloom seeds in their catalogues. But how can you really be sure you’re buying heirloom seeds? And why should you care? People choose heirloom varieties for a number […]
Inspiration overload
As I mentioned last week, a guerilla gardening group recently formed in Vancouver. We met last weekend, and I’ve been thinking about how to introduce the group to Heavy Petal readers. You see, there are just so many cool people involved! It’s inspiring and exciting. First, there’s our founder and fearless leader, Oren, a landscape […]