This is an espaliered Belgian fence

We should be grateful to Philippe Kahn, online pharmacy buy lipitor with best prices today in the USA  credited with inventing the camera-phone, back in 1997. (Or not, according to C-Net.) Whomever the mastermind, he (or she!) ensured we could have a camera, all the time and everywhere. So as we walked briskly past this fence near […]

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Autumn berries for your garden palette

Black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) – a North American native shrub – with glossy black pomes and bright fall foliage First, to confess. These fruits are highly decorative in the fall garden, but none of them are berries. As botanically defined, berries are fleshy fruits and seeds produced from a single ovary. Currants, blueberries and gooseberries […]

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Pear Trellis Rust isn’t pretty

The bright red foliage lesions and bumpy fruiting bodies of Pear Trellis Rust My sister-in-law was showing me the garden of their new home, including a number of fruit trees. Unfortunately, the foliage of the two pear trees ar buy kamagra gold online www.auriculotherapy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/kamagra-gold.html no prescription pharmacy e covered in red lesions, and the underside […]

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Book Review: Yes, You Can by Daniel Gasteiger

  If you cross-pollinated the computing and home canning worlds, you might not expect the result to b buy super cialis online www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/super-cialis.html no prescription pharmacy e so delicious. Yet, this is what makes Yes, You Can!, Daniel Gasteiger’s modern guide to food preservation, such a useful addition to the kitchen bookshelf. We were impressed with our […]

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Grow kiwifruit; yes, even in Toronto

The grapelike fruit of the hardy kiwi Actinidia arguta ‘Ananasnaya’ at UBC Botanical Garden, Vancouver If you aren’t a fan of the fuzzy skin on kiwifruit, you’re in luck. Not only are there smooth-skinned species, but they’re hardy in our climate. The one above was photographed in B.C. However, Actinidia arguta is available from at least […]

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Cedar apple rust on my serviceberry

The dark blue online pharmacy buy isotretinoin with best prices today in the USA normal fruit of the serviceberry, along with one infected with Cedar apple rust It seems to be an OMG summer. Unusual things are happening after all the rain of spring 2011 – including a problem on my usually problem-free s buy […]

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Celebrating Apple Season

  A big bag of fresh-picked apples is sitting on my kitchen counter. And I mean a BIG bag. If we had a bushel basket, it would be full to overflowing. What kind did you pick?, I asked my daughter.   Oh, lots, she replied. Jonagold, Northern Spy, Empire, some other kinds. It’ll be a […]

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Heirloom Tomato Tasting Party

What fun to attend a tomato tasting party! Vivian Reiss’s annual tomato tasting is held on her city rooftop garden in August. She grows 57 different kinds of heirlooms and sliced them up for visitors to taste the booty, and I was lucky to attend. Deciding on the best ones isn’t as easy as you’d […]

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Vivian Reiss’s Rooftop Veg Garden

Where do you go when you’ve used all the space in your garden and in front of your house? You take it to the office and up the elevator. Gardener and artist Vivian Reiss has transformed two spaces in her office building on Merton Street into garden paradises in the middle of the urban jungle. […]

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Fruit trees wearing their bridal gowns

This might be a crabapple, though I’m not a crabapple expert. And the Malus or apple family, along with its fruit tree cousins such as the Pyru online pharmacy buy doxycycline with best prices today in the USA s or pear [ed: and I should add the Prunus family, which includes plums, peaches (which this […]

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