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.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Crazy About Juicing

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My success with making apple juice and grape juice with my new juicer left me wanting to make more. The flavours were really wonderful, an...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Grape Harvest and Juicing and Thoughts of Pruning

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For their first year bearing fruit, my grape vines really performed well this year. Yesterday I decided to harvest the fruit, and make grape...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Bald-Faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)

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It's neat when you stumble across an ID of a creature which you were not specifically looking for, but had buzzing (in this case) around...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Back in the Garden Again

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I am very happy to be gardening again. Or at least I was yesterday, after about 6 frustrating weeks of being unable to enjoy the therapy of ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Family Giraffe Night

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As a result of our family's giraffe-drawing night, the One Million Giraffes project is 4 giraffes closer to one million (actually 5, sin...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Noteworthy Giraffes

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After encouraging readers to add to the One Million Giraffes project in my previous post , the kids and I each drew our own giraffes on yell...

"One Million Giraffes" Project

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After my mom saw my driftwood giraffe (by the way, she says it looks better in real life than in the photos, which I consider a nice compli...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Signs of Fall and Fruit Harvest Sampler

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Our family took a short trip to Las Vegas, and during those 4 days, the burning bush (Euonymus alata) started to turn red, a sure sign that ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Giraffe "Sculpture"

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Tonight I talked the kids into some painting projects, so that I could finally tackle the giraffe project I've been planning since... ...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

What's Up With That Apple Tree?

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My little apple tree which bore only 1 fruit in 2006 , and has slowly been adding a fruit or two each year, is bearing a number of apples th...
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