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, April 27, 2007

Favourite Posts

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My husband took our digital camera on his latest week-long business trip, which is thankfully ending tomorrow. So good thing it has been rai...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Garden Glimpses : Mid April

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Work and life has been overwhelming lately, but I have managed to take a few more photos, along with many hours of pulling weeds. So here I ...
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Friday, April 06, 2007

Garden Glimpses : Early April 2007

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I think it may finally be Spring in Vancouver, BC, although it has been a very wierd one, and the wierdest, snowiest, iciest winter I've...
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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