Little bastards. I’d done my homework – in a big, sick, OCD-way. All winter I’d read stacks of books on gardening – making sure I’d better know my way around the garden centre come spring time. Finally I could stray from impatiens… petunias… geraniums. I’d skulk around the plant nursery on a May long weekend: [...]
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After the glued vinyl tiles debacle, our entire apartment stank. So very, very, migraine-inducingly badly. For all our efforts to use VOC-free paint throughout – I was horrified to think we’d just thrown our healthy home out the window. DAMN IT. Enter a helping hand in book-form: How to Grow Fresh Air (50 House Plants that Purify [...]
Sad but true – in the past year we killed every single houseplant we owned*. And we’re self-described plant people. Doesn’t make sense, does it? It took a long time to accept that the amount of light coming through the windows wasn’t the amount I wanted it to be. More than any other feature, the [...]
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After a winter couped-up inside, I was dying inside for some greenery. Plants to love and care for. If we couldn’t have a green wall… then what? The previous year, while still living at The Cave, we’d bought five little ivy plants (my “fivies”). I’d had big hopes for them – but it turns out [...]
Woolly Pockets had my attention. What was it these guys had done so well? Their photos? The happy sunshine & bright, bright paint? Maybe the biggest, baddest, Jurassic Parkiest plants shouting how glad they were to be alive. Me, you, the universe… we couldn’t get enough of these things. WoollyFever! Crashing slightly back to earth [...]
6 reasons to add some plants. Happy Earth Day. In Vancouver we’re busy eating chocolate effigies of David Suzuki, making sacrifices to our worm bins and hopping on our soap-boxes: let’s talk about plants. Source: Living Office by Ian Drummond at the Chelsea Flower Show So. Littering your desk right now: mouse, stapler, phone, other phone, pens, [...]
Despite frosty appearances, it’s not winter anymore. It’s pre-spring. There’s proof outside my bedroom window where the tiny bulbs we planted last autumn are now 6” tall – and one particularly ambitious crocus is about to bloom. Excitement in the universe. Paolo & I are the most adorable little gardeners on earth. We’re definitely still [...]
Skim a batch of MLS listings (in our bracket, at least). Find outdoor photos: balconies gardens back patios decks (Did you see how I said gardens there? It was a trick. There are no gardens in our bracket). Anyway, 10:1, these outdoor chunks are the most unloved things you’ve ever seen. Small table, two chairs, done. “Can [...]
