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2008 BC Home and Garden Show report

February 26, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

So, I didn’t make it to the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Although I knew it would be a disappointing alternative, I hauled my pregnant self to the BC Home and Garden Show as a sort of consolation prize. It’s taken me a while to be able to write about the experience. I’ve needed time […]

Filed Under: Events, Raving and Whining Tagged With: bc home and garden show, fire bowl, green wall

Gardening while pregnant

February 21, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 15 Comments

For those of you who haven’t experienced the (ahem) joys of pregnancy, let me fill you in. It’s a beautiful sunny day. You decide to get out into the garden. Nothing heavy – you just want to enjoy the rare February sunshine and do some clean up. Which is normally no problem for a fit […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining Tagged With: garden humor, gardening, gardening pregnant, gardening while pregnant, pregnancy, pregnant gardening

Why aren’t more young people gardening?

December 10, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Have you been following the discussion over at Cold Climate Gardening on why more older gardeners don’t blog? Makes for interesting reading, and links quite nicely into my own personal interest in why more younger people don’t garden. I’m not alone in this query. Hanna at This Garden Is Illegal responded to Katie at Garden […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining Tagged With: community garden, craft, food security, garden marketing, gardening, peak oil, young people, younger generation

Oh Canada

May 4, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

So, Al Gore is calling Canada’s climate change plan (Clean Air Act) “a complete and total fraud…designed to mislead the Canadian people,” while David Suzuki says it’s “a sham, and a complete abdication of our international commitment.” Meanwhile, in Nairobi, Canada “won” the international “Fossil Award” for “misleading” the world, “repudiating” the Kyoto Protocol and […]

Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Raving and Whining

Which plants do you hate?

February 27, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 10 Comments

Juniper: misused and almost universally hated. I’m feeling kind of bitchy today, so I happily succumbed to the three pages of ranting on the You Grow Girl “Plants you hate” forum. Heh heh. YGG top offenders include: Cilantro (more for the taste than appearance, it seems) Impatiens, begonias, petunias and other bedding plants Spider plants […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining

January blahs

January 9, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

I’ve been feeling a little meh lately. Part of it, I know, is feeling cooped up; the weather has been terrible (it’s supposed to snow again tonight!) and like many gardeners, I’m experiencing serious garden withdrawal. A few weeks ago, I was all “spring is almost here!”… and now I’m as cranky as a wet […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining

Don’t. Just don’t.

October 16, 2006 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

Don’t do this. Don’t nurture tomatillos, zucchini and fennel from seed only to abandon the adult plants when you realize that your balcony, which isn’t equipped with a water tap – oh, they’ll put in an electrical outlet, sure, so you can string fairy lights or, say, blow dry your hair, but nothing as advanced […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining, WTF?

The best pick-me-up ever

June 19, 2006 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Last week kind of sucked, for no particular reason. By Thursday, I was feeling stressed and depressed, and just wanted to crawl into a hole to hibernate for a while. Then on Friday I received a small package. It was an unexpected gift from Terra Nova Nurseries. Wow. What excitement. I opened it as carefully […]

Filed Under: Perennials, Raving and Whining

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