Look up the word “numinous” and you’re well on the way to understanding what you can gain by unleashing your creativity. Landscape architect W. Gary Smith opened his recent lecture at the Toronto Botanical Garden with a detail photo of a raked gravel garden at Philadelphia’s Chanticleer. He described a magical moment when cherry blossoms [...]
There’s a buzz in the air about local hero Clement Kent, a York University postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering and president of the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto. Kent founded the Pollinator Garden Project two years ago to teach gardeners, members of the public and school [...]
Whoo-hoo — my copy of No Guff Vegetable Gardening by Donna Balzer and Steven Biggs just arrived! I first met Donna at the Garden Writers Symposium in Portland Oregon — she was chattering on about soil and microbes while we sat on the bus, heading to our next garden-gazing excursion. Soil is a subject very dear to [...]
Whether it’s the World Cup, Olympic Games or the Oscars, everybody loves celebrating a winner, and right now garden communicators like me are congratulating one of our own for her Silver Medal Award-winning garden calendar. The Garden Writers Association has just annouced the winners of its annual awards program, and Niagara Falls-based Theresa Forte has won big [...]
10. Play Checks My family, friends and most passersby who spy the newspaper on the front porch at 9 a.m. know that I’m not a morning person. So, when I dragged myself out of bed to attend the 8 a.m. keynote speech at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, I sincerely hoped it would [...]
6. Natural landscapes for the real world Larry Weaner, a landscape architect based in Glenside, Pennsylviania, opened his talk on “Breaking the Rules” at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh with a story about how Native Americans were this continent’s first ecologists. Among their sustainable practices was the deliberate division the carex plants [...]
Growing vegetables in the city has become so popular that the University of Guelph has launched The Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. The one hectare market garden located in the northwest corner of the Arboretum offers hands-on, practical experience as part of part of U of G’s major in organic agriculture. Hankerin’ to be an [...]
Hens are hot. That’s the message I came back with from a recent tour of the gardens of Portland, Oregon. People are blogging about them (see Dirt by Amy Stewart), gardeners are raising them in urban gardens and at one city nursery called Pistils, they’re selling exotic species like Silkens and Frizzle Cochins (these were [...]
170,000 pairs of feet tromped the grounds of the Royal Hospital in London’s posh Chelsea district, queuing for a glimpse of the 16 show gardens and 25 courtyard gardens that were the highlight of the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show, which celebrated 140 years. A showcase of all that’s new, innovative, and exciting in the world [...]
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