Flowers and Weeds

Please visit me in my garden, among the flowers and weeds, as I carve out a little patch of heaven in this rainy Pacific Northwest. I hope to share with you some of the joys, the triumphs, the techniques I learn along the way, and maybe some favourite garden recipes and art projects, too.

Friday, March 23, 2007

My Brave Shieldmaiden

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Today was rainy, the kids are still on Spring Break, and having been away on business for the last week, I tried to spend some time playing ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Garden Painting Day 20 & 21 : Lupines

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It has been some while since I've made time to work on my painting. Let's just say that when I paint now, the first step is to wipe ...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Recipe : Candied Kumquats

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I enjoyed my candy oranges so much, that the other day, while eating kumquats with my daughter, I realized that we could try making candied ...
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Monday, January 01, 2007

Garden Painting Day 18 & 19 : Cat

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It has been some while since I started on the cat in my garden painting, first colouring in basic sections (not worrying too much about colo...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Recipe : Candied Orange Peel

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This Christmas I sampled my friend Lily's homemade candied orange peel, and was so impressed, I asked her for her recipe, and have alrea...

Final Caterpillar Transformation : Grey Moth

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If you caught my previous posts about the 3 green-turned-grey/brown caterpillars which I found during garden cleanup in late October or earl...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

More Fun in the Snow : Snow Bear and Snow Angel

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It has certainly been a bold and early start to winter, with our foot or so of snow and -10 celsius temperatures (extremely frigid for Vanco...
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Caterpillar Transformation

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It happened quite suddenly. The three caterpillars (see The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Brown Caterpillar ) had stopped eating, and didn...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Fun in the Snow : Snow Mouse

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It is exactly one month before Christmas, and we had our first snowfall today. It was significant enough, and of the good compacting variety...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Garden Painting Day 17 : Daylilies

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Tonight I finally painted the daylilies into my garden painting (based on hemerocallis "Autumn Sun", although perhaps not exactly ...

Garden Photo Website : Maureen & Glen's Gardening on the Prairies

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I was researching a plant today, I saw a wonderful photo of it in a gardening book, but haven't seen it in any gardens, that I can recal...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Brown Caterpillar

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I try to live by the motto "Live and let live". That includes the creatures, great and small, who share my garden with me. I don...
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Friday, November 03, 2006

Mushroom Photos

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Last week I passed through a park with the kids on the way to my son's soccer team photo shoot, and discovered a few dozen attractive mu...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Garden Painting Day 16 : Patriot Hosta

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After more than six weeks, I finally made some progress on my garden painting last night. Previously, I had outlined a cat and the white edg...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Dragon Fruit

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Tonight I had dinner with the kids in an Asian mall, and picked up a couple of bags of persimmons. I first tried persimmons a couple of year...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Pumpkin Carving

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With Fall and the Hallowe'en season upon, what better time to get out a carving knife, and create some pumpkin faces? Our kids were deli...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Plant Recycling

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I am a recycling queen. When I was growing up, I would have been called a scrounge. But now recycling is fashionable, or at least the preten...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Garden Glimpses : Late September

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Fall is my favourite time of year. What wonderful colours to enjoy in the garden. The contrast of warm sun during the day and crisp autumn n...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Mystery Apple

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My mystery apple tree bore one fruit this year, which just dropped and so I had the chance to sample it tonight. I suspect it is a Macintosh...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Recipe : Mint Butter Cookies

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A week ago, I posted one of my favourite recipes, for Tarragon Butter Cookies . Tonight I just finished baking the mint version, and I now h...
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