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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

Vancouver City Council votes on chickens

March 2, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 11 Comments

Quick! If you live in Vancouver (hey, neighbour!) drop a note to City Council and let them know you support the amendment of the animal control bylaw to allow Vancouverites to keep chickens. There are so many great reasons to allow chickens in urban settings. Council is debating this issue tomorrow night (March 3) has […]

Filed Under: Critters and wildlife Tagged With: chickens, Vancouver

European chafer beetle control

November 24, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 15 Comments

Metro Vancouver has a European Chafer beetle problem. Actually, the beetles themselves aren’t too troublesome, but their grubs, which feed on the roots of turf grass, are wreaking havoc. As an introduced pest, the beetle has few natural competitors to control it. That’s where the urban wildlife steps in. Raccoons, skunks and crows enjoy tearing […]

Filed Under: Critters and wildlife, WTF? Tagged With: beetle, crow, european chafer, grub, lawn, organic, pest control, Vancouver

Illicit activity: start ’em young

June 25, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 12 Comments

In my pre-baby life, my neighbour called me The Napper. I love sleeping, and I especially love a late, lazy afternoon nap. I was hoping my own daughter would see the beauty of daytime shut-eye, but, for now at least, she’s not all that fond of stationary beds. She’ll nap in her car seat as […]

Filed Under: Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerilla gardening, guerrilla garden, seed ball, seed bomb, seedball, seedbomb, Vancouver

Book review: Hardy Succulents

May 16, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 11 Comments

Hardy Succulents in two words: Eye candy. I love the look of succulents: their drama, their modernism. And maybe, just maybe, I covet them because I can’t really grow many of them all that successfully here, even though I’m in practically-balmy Zone 8. So I was really excited to receive a copy of Hardy Succulents: […]

Filed Under: Pacific Northwest, Perennials Tagged With: agave, cactus, gardening, hardiness, hardy, hardy succulents, sedum, sempervivum, succulents, Vancouver, zone

Earth Day garden and baby update

April 22, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 15 Comments

“Oh the days are long/ ‘Til the baby comes…” – Sinead O’Connor That’s right – I’m still waiting for this baby. One week past my due date and just learned today that the baby, which for the last nine months has been perfectly positioned, has rotated and is now posterior. This just confirms my suspicions […]

Filed Under: Bulbs and Tubers, My garden, Perennials, Shrubs & Trees Tagged With: Acer palmatum dissectum 'Viridis', Acer palmatum Firegold, bc, bc native plants, beni kawa, Erythronium grandiflorum, fireglow, maidenhair fern, sword fern, Vancouver, yellow fawn lily

Nature’s idea of a joke

March 28, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

So, today’s the frost free date for Vancouver, and this is what it’s doing outside? Big, fat flakes. Doesn’t look like much in the photo, but come ON! 

Filed Under: My garden Tagged With: frost free date, snow, Vancouver

Berlin community garden destroyed

March 25, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Garten Rosa Rose, in Berlin, before. Garten Rosa Rose after. As a member of the Vancouver Guerrilla Gardening Group, and of course, through this blog, I am often privileged to be in contact with guerrilla gardeners around the world – a very cool feeling! The similar challenges we all face – and of course, the […]

Filed Under: Resistance is fertile Tagged With: 2010 community garden, berlin, green streets, guerrilla garden, onni, rosa rose, Vancouver

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