Not the lawn (yes, that’s a lawn, Vernon style). Yuck. But morning glory flowers! Ah. Give us the weeds! So delicious.
Only the Flowers, Please and Thank You
The Beauty of Okanagan Nature
Nature is hard to create. You will need a tractor and a mower, and you will need to get stuck in the swamp every few feet and struggle out, but in the […]
Okanagan Landscaping Tip
Don’t plant cedars. No, really. Don’t. This is what they do. This is because it’s a dry grassland. Cedars like rainforests. Irrigation and landscaping can’t change that.
Okanagan Landscaping if Money is No Object
And if beauty is no object, either. Vernon. Where the Iron Age and the Stone Age meet.
Armoured Lawn Mower and Fertilizing Combo Ready in Time for the Christmas Shopping Season
I spotted this handy unit down the road yesterday. All tech should be so efficient! Here’s a close up of the blade system. And here you can see the balance between the […]
Canadian Military Budget Update
So, the deer come by in deer territory in the Great Canadian Military City of Vernon and munch stuff grown with water because access to water is blocked by farm fences and […]
Settler Culture Going for Broke
Landscaping is hard work. The name says it all: land + scoop, the Old Norse word for fate, the shape one makes of a life by work, the scoop that drains a […]
Dressing for the Weather in the Okanagan
A couple weeks ago, things were looking pretty poorly up the road, with unseasonable snow.. But now, things are looking up, with unseasonable heat. Always wear a hat. That’s the trick. Right. […]
The Six Lessons Of Water and House Building in the Grasslands
Houses in this grassland subdivision are coming in around $1,000,000 dollars these days. I expect this one on the edge of stream bed is little different. Water has some lessons in store […]
How Much Soil Do We Need, Who Gets to Decide, How, and Why?
Today a little tour through democracy in action. Note the two anti-insect bands. Given that a gram of soil continues 1 billion microorganisms, beating out seawater’s 1 million, how much topsoil does […]
