Category Archive for: ‘Photography’
Holiday Lights to Dress Up the Winter Garden
Full disclosure: these are NOT photos of my garden. Oh how I wish that it was…well, maybe not. I would have a broken body from the amount of work it takes to manage the 55 acres that makes up the beautiful VanDusen Gardens. Each year VanDusen dresses up their 255,000 plants and surrounding areas with the most amazing holiday displays, some of …
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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival + How to Grow Tulips
A few years back I visited Skagit Valley in Washington state where each year they delight visitors with a little taste of what Holland’s tulip farms might be like during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The area is home to many producers of spring flowers including tulips, daffodils, and irises. The festival runs April 1-30 of any given year and …
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Snowy Owls in Boundary Bay, Delta, British Columbia
This winter we are incredibly lucky to have a large number of Snowy Owls visiting right now in Delta. Snowy Owls are normally found in the Arctic where their main meal is a small Arctic rodent, the lemming. Due to a decline in the lemming population (which happens approximately every 4 years) the owls have migrated to locations like Boundary Bay in Delta looking for food. These magnificent birds are a beautiful sight …
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Euonymous europaeus AKA European Spindle Tree
While shopping for interesting foliage to add to my holiday planters and wreaths, I was stopped in my tracks by this interesting beauty: Euonymous europaeus. There are some really fascinating winter blooming plants that I have seen, like witch hazel ‘Diane‘ and white forsythia, but I wasn’t familiar with this one. Turns out these aren’t the blooms at all but the fruit that has set seed. Regardless, …
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Mushroom Hunting
Many fall days are spent raking leaves and looking up at colourful, changing trees, but it can be just as pleasurable to slow down and hunt for what lies below. Over the past few days we abandoned the garden, grabbed the dogs and found a host of fascinating fungi. . It’s now the season for picking wild mushrooms in the woods. Even though there …
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Hi, I’m Stephanie. Gardening healed me from a debilitating illness and so I know the power of garden therapy first hand.
Here you will find DIY garden projects and crafts that break down barriers and allow anyone to garden, no matter their ability, knowledge, or even garden size. Browse through our projects and you will surely find one that will inspire you to get out and get dirty, try a project, and fall in love with the garden!
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