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Archives for September 2007

Heirloom harvest

September 25, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Heirloom tomatoes, clockwise from top left: Odessa, Black Brandywine, Green Zebra.   It was a dismal year for tomatoes in Vancouver – mostly due to the lack of a real summer. Unlike the heat waves and droughts experienced on other parts of the continent, we had almost autumn-like weather – rain and cloud interspersed with […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: black brandywine, green zebra, heirloom tomatoes, odessa, tomatoes

Out of the ordinary

September 21, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Clean lines and bold colours are still a rarity – though there were perhaps a dozen container wholesalers present at the CanWest Hort Show, this display of Elho watering cans and containers from Calgary-based Red White and Blue Imports was the one that caught my eye. I love their simple yet impactful designs.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: canwest hort show, containers, elho, gardening

Comment away!

September 20, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Comments are now fixed – feel free to innundate me with your wise words! 

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CanWest Horticultural Show trends

September 19, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

I stopped by the CanWest Horticultural Show last week (“Western Canada’s premier nursery, landscape and floriculture trade show”). Like most hort shows, the types of exhibitors don’t vary all that much from year to year, so what I look for – in addition to anything really different – are the overall trends.   Not exactly […]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: canwest hort show, foliage, green roofs

Comments not working

September 18, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Thank you to readers who have let me know that they weren’t able to leave comments. I recently upgraded to MovableType 4 and there have been a few hiccups. I’m working on this one and hope to have it fixed soon!

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Pretty escape

September 14, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

I’ve been feeling irritable and grumbly lately, and generally unfit for human consumption. When I was a kid I had about a half-dozen “forts” I could run away to in this situation. I could use one right about now. Something like this pretty “concrete pod” from Kazuya Morita Architects would make a lovely little forest retreat. Via Shedworking.

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Flora table

September 10, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Mmmmmmm… pretty. It’s Columbian designer Danilo Calvache’s Flora Table. Lo amo. Via MocoLoco.

Filed Under: Garden Design, Inspiration Tagged With: danilo calvache, flora table, Garden Design

Cooking vs. gardening

September 7, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

A recent post by the Germinatrix, in which she discusses the similarities between cooking and gardening, got me thinking about a conversation I had with my husband a few nights ago. While Germi proposes that “good cooks are often good gardeners – and vice versa,” Ben and I were talking about how nicely our hobbies (cooking and gardening […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cooking, gardening

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