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Archives for April 2009

Contest! Win tickets to the World Rose Festival and $100 in roses

April 20, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 74 Comments

I know very little about roses, and I don’t totally understand their appeal. (Gulp! I can’t believe I just admitted that on a gardening blog! I feel like the Rosarians are going to target me for a hit now. Better watch my back.) So when the fine people at the World Rose Festival asked me […]

Filed Under: Events, Perennials Tagged With: roses, Select Roses, Vancouver, World Rose Convention, World Rose Festival

Name that plant

April 13, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 26 Comments

Nickel herb markers from Nina Gibson Designs. $28 for four. There’s nothing worse than a garden littered with nursery plant labels. Where each plant has a little plastic tombstone. Sure, labels might come in handy if you’ve forgotten whether it was Euphorbia ‘Blue Lagoon’ or ‘Blue Haze’ you planted, but does every pansy need to […]

Filed Under: Garden Design, Retail Therapy Tagged With: label, marker, modern, plant, plant tag, stake

Home Outside winner!

April 2, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

So this contest closed a couple of days ago, and I’m finally getting around to announcing a winner. Sorry to keep you in suspense. And I’m still not going to name names (skip to the end if you’re impatient!)… because I wanted to say a couple of things about the entries. 76 of you entered, […]

Filed Under: Garden Design Tagged With: contest, Home Outside, Julie Moir Messervy

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