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A treehouse on the Toronto Islands
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Idea File: Ten from Canada Blooms 2013
Shawn Gallaugher’s new venture Otium Exercise Gardens creates spaces that look like a garden, but act like a gym. A few of the gardens this year incorporated some aspect of fitness and outdoor living. Today’s Friday Idea File brings you ten things of note from this first day of Canada Blooms 2013. With one wee […]
Friday Idea File: Garden sheds without tears
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She Built It: Do It Herself Garden Charm
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Our front yard makeover: Post mortem
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Our front yard makeover, Part 4
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Our front yard makeover, Part 3
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Something there is that loves a dry stone wall
Parklane’s dry stone wall at Canada Blooms 2012 Robert Frost might not forgive my mangling his poem but, judging by the number of them at Canada Blooms 2012, something – or, more aptly, someone – does love a wall. Especially a dry stone wall. Dry stone walls are constructed without mortar to glue the stones together. […]