from our blog

Mar. 11/10 - Eco Friendly Tip #2 For Your Sustainable Garden - A Rain Garden!. Another Rainy Day in Vancouver! March 11/10 and the rain continues. According to the weather forecast - bright skies are not on the immediate horizon. Yesterday I spoke about Eco-Goals for your garden - starting with my #1 goal - 'Holding Your Water' and how our use and disposal of water in our gardens could be managed much better. 'Holding Your Water' is my term for returning water you use or water that runs off your impermeable spaces (roofs, walkways) are best directed into the ground as opposed to our local sewer system. Rain chains are one simple technique for channeling water from your roof draings into the ground. But what other low tech ways are there to acheive the same thing?

Mar. 10/10 - Eco Friendly Tip #1 For Your Sustainable Garden Rain Chains. Rainy Days of Vancouver Whoever invented the saying 'April showers bring showers brings May flowers' must have been thinking of Vancouver and must have actually meant January, February, March, April....you get the picture. One would think that with all the rain we get each year that a water shortage would never be an issue. Wrong! Infact, most summers see the Vancouver area being subjegated to outdoor water restrictions. Reservoirs run dangerously low as drier summers fail to replenish them. This is aggravated by the fact that we as homeowners simply use and waste too much water. For example, by simply ignoring that leaky outdoor tap, hundreds of gallons of water are wasted each year. Times that by a million people and there goes hundreds of millions of gallons literally down the drain.

Mar. 9/2010 – The Planning Stage: Turnip 'Early Snowball'. Confession time here – I think I have had turnips maybe 1-2 times ever in my life and I am pretty sure they were camouflaged with a myriad of other root vegetables in a dish served at some high end restaurant in Vancouver whose claim to fame is that it serves food via the 100 mile coupled with the slow food (whatever is in season) philosophy. My memory is so vague I can’t even remember what they actually taste like. But in 40 (weather cooperating) or so days I am about to find out.

from our events

August 22, 2010 Open House - Sustainable Landscape For Your Home With Senga. Western Living's Designer of the Year, Senga Lindsay invited you to come discover how easy it is to convert your existing landscape into a garden that is not only friendly to the earth but will help heal the planet. You will visit the home garden and meet the host Senga Lindsay , Landscape Architect and upcoming author of ‘Sustainable Landscapes for your Home Garden.'