Of Gardens & Gardening

How Gardening Slowly Grew On Us

Oftentimes gardening is a trial and error affair. We learn the meaning of SERENDIPITY through our gardening.

However, planning and learning from mistakes are the best way to create a garden that satisfies our needs and desires. In this website, we share our learning experience and wealth of info from other gardens and gardeners.

We also share some personal stories related to our home garden and our gardening practices.

Enjoy reading, and hopefully learn some things from our website.

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Here they come, the fall colors of red, yellow, and orange

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Nov 1, 20246 min read

Here they come, the fall colors of red, yellow, and orange

Fall colors the world in yellows, reds, oranges. Many trees, shrubs, and most other plants trade their greenness for those vibrant colors...

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Commonly called Heart of Jesus, angel wings and elephant ear (which they share with the related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), caladiums get their names from their distinctive leaf shape

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Sep 17, 20243 min read

Commonly called Heart of Jesus, angel wings and elephant ear (which they share with the related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), caladiums get their names from their distinctive leaf shape

Their leaves are the caladium's main asset. The leaves do look like the floppy ears of those giant pachyderms, except caladiums are...

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Sep 8, 20243 min read

Sunflower & Dahlia Walks with our Siberian Forest Cats

I am amazed at the rows upon neat rows of sunflowers that stand at attention at the entrance, the sides, and at the back of a sunflower...

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Sep 7, 20242 min read

Sunflower Festival in Richmond, BC

Rows upon rows of sunflowers, large and some small varieties, stand at the entrance and at the sides, and at the back of a sunflower farm...

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May 3, 20246 min read

Those Truly Stunning Tulips

Tulips when in bloom are always a beauty and a delight to behold. Even when the tulip shoots are just starting to unfurl in the middle of...

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Apr 25, 20244 min read

When the Cherry Blossoms are all Gone

Cherry blossoms are one of the most stunning blooms, creating such a mass of flowers on a small tree. The blooms are ethereal but...

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Feb 17, 20246 min read

Here We Spring into Gardening

Our gardens might best demonstrate the annual cycle of the seasons. We consider Spring as the season when plant shoots resurface, or...

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Vatican Garden: A Place for Contemplation and Beauty

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Oct 31, 20234 min read

Vatican Garden: A Place for Contemplation and Beauty

You can enter the Vatican Garden with either a tour group or an open-bus tour with an audio guide. You can more quickly cover more of the...

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Aug 10, 20232 min read

San Francisco Botanical Garden

Every major city in the world offers visitors sights and sounds and tastes and culture the best it can. San Francisco offers what other...

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Jul 25, 20234 min read

The Montreal Botanical Garden

The Montreal Botanical Garden is the most beautiful garden in the beautiful historic city of Montreal in western Canada. Its 75 hectares (18

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The Flowers and Trees of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings

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Mar 5, 20232 min read

The Flowers and Trees of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was an unknown artist during his lifetime. No one knew...

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Feb 17, 20233 min read

Hail to Hellebores

Hellebore may sound something like “hell of a bore” but this early bloomer is quite the opposite of its homophone. Hellebores have many...

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Feb 10, 20236 min read

Gift a Live Plant this Valentine's Day

Have you thought about giving a live plant as your Valentine’s Day gift to your loved one? Or, have you ever received a live plant from...

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Feb 3, 20233 min read

Creating winter interest in our gardens

When it snows, most gardeners fret over the white cover. I, on the other hand, love an all-white landscape. It’s clean. It’s simple. It...

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Let the Spring Gardening begin in mid winter

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Jan 29, 20235 min read

Let the Spring Gardening begin in mid winter

After a long snowy winter, you must be rearing to go out into the garden. Spring into Spring gardening sounds like a good idea. It’s...

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How to Give your Garden an Appeal to the Masses by planting en masse

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Jan 15, 20231 min read

How to Give your Garden an Appeal to the Masses by planting en masse

Give your garden a mass appeal by planting your plants together. By grouping certain plants together you increase the visual appeal,...

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How to help those hummingbirds survive freezing winter

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Jan 8, 20233 min read

How to help those hummingbirds survive freezing winter

Poor hummingbirds, the temperature had plummeted so low during the Christmas break that the feeders I set up for them had frozen. The...

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Nov 5, 20225 min read

Finding Beauty in Fall Foliage

Beauty, as some people say, is in the eye of the beholder. Great beauty can be seen all around us if we put on our appreciative lenses....

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Those Herbs of my Childhood, They Actually Work

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Oct 16, 20225 min read

Those Herbs of my Childhood, They Actually Work

Bunches of stalks of colorful coleus (Visayan: mayana), bright green moringa or horseradish (Visayan: kalamunggay), guava leaves and...

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Sep 30, 20225 min read

Why All the Colors of Fall?

Oh no, they're dying! They're all slowly dying! Fresh from the lush and tropical Philippines, I was alarmed that at the end of September...

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Of Gardens & Gardening

Here they come, the fall colors of red, yellow, and orange

Commonly called Heart of Jesus, angel wings and elephant ear (which they share with the related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), caladiums get their names from their distinctive leaf shape

Sunflower & Dahlia Walks with our Siberian Forest Cats

Sunflower Festival in Richmond, BC

Those Truly Stunning Tulips

When the Cherry Blossoms are all Gone

Here We Spring into Gardening

Vatican Garden: A Place for Contemplation and Beauty

San Francisco Botanical Garden

The Montreal Botanical Garden

The Flowers and Trees of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings

Hail to Hellebores

Gift a Live Plant this Valentine's Day

Creating winter interest in our gardens

Let the Spring Gardening begin in mid winter

How to Give your Garden an Appeal to the Masses by planting en masse

How to help those hummingbirds survive freezing winter

Finding Beauty in Fall Foliage

Those Herbs of my Childhood, They Actually Work

Why All the Colors of Fall?

Nice to Meet You

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