I have dabbled for years but finally moved into a house of my own in 2006 and have been working on the garden ever since. I have plans much bigger than my budget and my body will allow but I consider any garden a work in progress so I am very happy to just do a little at a time and enjoy small victories.
Gardens
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Front Bed garden
Zone 7b When we bought the house the entire front bed was a mass of boring boxwood, which Steve chopped out in March 2009. It took us months to finally get...
- 34 plants
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Herb garden
Zone 7b This was a veg bed last year and has been converted to a herb garden. I think the herbs will be incorporated into the mixed beds next year but I'm ...
- 1 plants
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Houseplants garden
Zone 7b This is just a good place to keep a running list of the houseplants I have and the ones I'd like to acquire.
- 5 plants
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Miscellaneous Potted plant garden
Zone 7b The plants in this garden collection will be myriad and changing. Some of these will be put in the ground eventually.
- 17 plants
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Potato Bags garden
Zone 7b First year growing potatoes - just trying it out in contractor's bags
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Pumpkin Bed garden
Zone 7b Just a place next to the driveway that we hilled up and marked to plant pumpkins this year. Heavily amended with compost.
- 3 plants
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[Archived] 2008 Vegetable garden
Zone 7b This is the second incarnation of the vegetable garden with raised beds and I will in fact be dismantling and rebuilding in the front this fall (20...
- 3 plants
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I love to grow
I like to grow food, my favourite flower is Nemesia fruticans and I dig Tradescantia this year.
Hobbies
I knit a bit, I read alot.






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