An Urban-Condo Garden Inventory: What We Were Left

Since some readers expressed interest, I’m going to try to track our progress as we adapt any skills and knowledge gleaned through years in our seaside garden on “our little island” (those links will take you…

View Post

The Garden as Book: Turning the Pages of My New Urban Terrace

I love the way the weather has blasted a rust stencil into the old Doukhobor church bench I picked up years ago to celebrate having successfully passed my doctoral comprehensives. The stencil itself was bought…

View Post

Calling All Gardeners. . . Do You Know This Pretty?

On Instagram the other day, I posted this close-up and another photo of the entire shrub it grows on. As I said in that post, I came home and researched this gloriously fragrant shrub whose…

View Post

Five Things Friday, in Bordeaux, in November. . .

More than halfway through my ten weeks’ away from home now, and so much stored up to share here, once I get organised. For now, another Five Things. . .  ’cause Random is the New…

View Post

Settling In: A WIW photo and a peek at the new Garden

Bit of a whirlwind ’round here, as you might imagine, what with all the moving boxes and the trying to understand this new space, the new lifestyle we’ve embarked on, how we will want and…

View Post

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.