Rock gardening is the purest form of gardening in the Okanagan. It’s native to this place, and very Zen. That makes sense for rock that started off in Japan and wandered here […]
Red is the Colour of the Okanagan
Welcome, Dry Baby!
Welcome to Dry Baby, the Okanagan’s newest apricot. She’s just a bud right now, but next year she’ll have some beautiful, big, orange, tasty and juiceless apricots. She came through the winter […]
Winter Flowers and Spring Flowers
The moods of flowering plants are in the whole plant and concentrate in more than just its blooms or fruit. These bud shells, for instance … … are as much blooms as the […]
It is Not the Shortest Day, Not Really
The three goddesses of September … … in fact, all five goddesses of September … … have only increased in power. It is not the shortest day. It is the same day in […]
Gravity Pools
Soil. Not soil. 9 years, nothing growing yet. Soil Not soil. Nothing even germinates here. Soil. You find soil where water pools. (Rocks, too.) It is life — a gravitational effect that […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Three Queens of the Hill
Now, take your bow.
Gardening is Just Too Hard
Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at […]
A Robin in His Garden
Crazy! Welcome to the new Okanagan.
This is Not Our Planet
Imagine if this pussy willow… … was your world … …and not just yours … … but a world of many creatures … … namely a wasp… … and a different wasp […]
The Oriole in the Coal Mine
Trees are boundaries. They are creatures of the air, but are anchored to the soil. Most birds are like that, too. Many put their nests up in the sky, supported by trees. They even […]
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