Last week, I spoke of black in the garden. Here’s an example, the dark foliage of sambucus nigra ‘Black Beauty.’ Even were we to have a freak mid-March snowstorm, spring is unstoppable now. Almost every…
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The last issue of Gardening Life, a glossy Canadian garden magazine, featured a “black” garden, the counterpart to the famous white garden atSissinghurst. While I’ve no similarly concentrated darkness in my garden, I have been…
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I put most of this post together on Thursday before I spent my weekend in Vancouver. We enjoyed brilliant weather this weekend (I had a fabulous run in the spring sunshine out to Jericho Beach),…
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I took these photos a few days ago. As you can see, while it was brilliant here, blue skies and sunshine, a thick band of fog seemed to be keeping the sunshine from reaching Vancouver.…
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I commented a few posts ago about the imprinting left by my long-ago school uniform and you can see its effects again here. We wore grey wool flannel pleated skirts where I’ve substituted denim, and…
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