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 […]
Merry Christmas!
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.
Gardening Gifts for Newsmakers
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 […]
Moss Graffiti
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 […]
The Instructables
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 […]
Tuscan Farm Gardens
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 […]
Poodle flower arrangement
Oh my.
Name this rose! Only $8000
If you’ve ever wanted to be immortalized in name and in gardens everywhere, here’s your chance. Brad Jalbert of Select Roses in Langley, B.C., is selling naming rights to two of the three new hybridized roses he’s introducing next year. For between $3,000 and $8,000, you can purchase the right to name a new rose. […]