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Archives for July 2007

I love my new fence

July 29, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 19 Comments

It’s such an exciting time in my own garden right now. Not only is everything ripening and in bloom, but we’ve also finally started construction on our backyard project. I don’t blog about my backyard much, and there’s a reason for it: it looks like hell. While I love my front patio, where we spend […]

Filed Under: My garden

Couldn’t they just text me?

July 28, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Maybe this is what we outdoor-only gardeners need — although I wonder if unsatisfactory watering methods are the sole cause of my houseplants’ untimely deaths. I guess it couldn’t be helping. Botanicalls, a system still in the testing stage, is designed to help keep plants alive. Developed by four students at New York University’s interactive […]

Filed Under: Indoors

Seedball progress

July 27, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Regular Heavy Petal readers know that I’m really into seed balls, those muddy little balls of floral love. The first sowing I did this year was disturbed by construction, so I recently launched a second attack. The teeny results are beginning to show themselves in these photos. For a more advanced idea of what seed […]

Filed Under: Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerilla gardening, masanobu fukuoka, seed ball, seed balls, seed bomb, seed bombs, seedball, seedballs, seedbomb

Hogan’s Alley guerilla art

July 25, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

I want to tell you about a really inspiring guerilla art project and accompanying blog. Though I have lived in Vancouver almost all of my life, I’d never heard of Hogan’s Alley until a member of the Vancouver Guerilla Gardening Group put out a call for help with an installation for the Hogan’s Alley Memorial […]

Filed Under: Resistance is fertile

Guest blog: Sustainable Harvest International

July 23, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Heavy Petal has a guest blogger today: Jessica Schessler, a college student interning for the summer with Sustainable Harvest International, a very cool non-profit organization that helps Central American farmers create sustainable alternatives to slash-and-burn farming. Jessica is helping to spread the word. By Jessica Schessler Becoming green and saving the environment has become quite […]

Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Resistance is fertile

Nobody and Co expanding furniture

July 19, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Piccolo grande table gardening garden design outdoor furniture

Filed Under: Garden Design, Outdoor Living

Petal pillow love

July 18, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

It could just be because I covet everything turquoise, but I am seriously loving the Petal Pillow by Chiasso. It’s like a pompom dahlia, but square. And made of felt. Mmmm…. felt. Nummy.

Filed Under: Indoors, Retail Therapy

A good home for houseplants

July 17, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 10 Comments

terrarium, houseplant, lawn fawn, fern, house plant, garden

Filed Under: How To, Indoors, My garden

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