Tag: Garden
not always easy being green
Cruising through the New York Times this morning, I came across a story?áabout some of the trials and tribulations presented by wild landscape gardening. Margie Ruddick?áis a landscape architect living in Philadelphia. She has?ánurtured a wild?á(and very beautiful) garden that doesn’t require?áwatering, saves runoff?áwater from going into the sewers and feeds the birds and neighbours.…
for the love of gardening
Last weekend was the Great Gardening Weekend at the Jardin Botanique. ?áAt this fair, there were many booths featuring cool products, rare plants, native plants, organizations and information. ?áHighlights for me included a chat with the guy who has been in charge of the Japanese and American bonsai specimens in the garden for quite some…
my little green pals
?á ?á I am a proud mama… not only to a cat, but to a vast number of tiny, green lives. This year I started my garden indoors. I was waiting to find out which plot I?áwas allocated?áin the Community Garden, so I?ácouldn’t plant outside. I took a couple of egg cartons, a small bag…
smaller is better! Or, I Love A Challenge…
Today I moved. No, I didn’t move out of my home, I just moved all of my “studio stuff” (folding tables, chairs, assorted cabinets, drawing table, supplies… oh, and many large paintings) into my small loft-style apartment. I am looking at this adjustment, this shift, as a challenge. Whenever I have seen those Home and…
in the botanical gardens last summer
Last summer I finally visited Montreal’s Botanical Gardens. It was a fantastic place; full of life, public art and activities, and a restful vibrancy. I loved my day there, recalling much about it now months later. I only spent three hours in the gardens, but those three hours of photos and memories?áhelp me through a…
Community Gardening With Tainted Plot: Becoming one of the Flower-People
by Natasha Henderson, Montreal Community Garden. Plot. Allotment. A piece of earth, a bit of land. One can tend plants, care for the soil and those plants, and?áharvest the spoils as they happen. For several years IÔÇÖve known people who have had these little bits of land to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs. Beets, peppers,…