A Caribbean Garden

A landlord who landscapes… - Let’s face it; nobody really wants a rental house next door to their home. Rentals have a bad rap and I’m willing to say that’s usually for good reason. M...

A whole lotta onion beef stew from leftovers - I can't remember the last time I put beef stew on the dinner table yet was inspired to create this dish after reading Kat's post. There are 2 things I like...

A Season to Make Experiments - Obligatory Garden Picture A quote that I love from the book that I love titled The Garden that I Love... "What would be the good or the pleasure of a garde...

UT Gardens Plant Sale 2011 - On a super sunny sultry Saturday last September… …We visited the University of Tennessee hort campus for their annual fall plant sale. This is a garden tha...

Noémie Goudal - Encore une photographe de talent. J'aime l'univers de Noémie Goudal. Another great photographer. I love her universe.

Green design solutions - moss carpets - Living green design solutions are fresh and inspiring. More and more architects and designers show their extraordinary imagination in designing green interio...

Blooming Friday - Metamorphosis - Välkommen till en ny Blommig fredag! *Förvandlingar* är veckans tema och jag ser fram emot era tolkningar som alltid är en källa till inspiration. *Welcome...

Of Gnomes and Dragons - 45 Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford, England - This week's Flight of Fancy takes us to the town of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In June of 2011 the garden at 45 Waterhouse Lane was visited by twenty plus a...

Bulbs up - Cut out of work a little early today. Was still light when I got home and took the doggies out. Wow. Snowdrops and Eranthis up and budding. Lots of othe...

Days are getting longer - The days are getting longer, and these days there is some sunlight left when I get home from work. Today I decided to spend sometime in the garden and do s...

Going vertical with a steel pipe planter - A few months ago Link Davidson, who has a talent for collecting and repurposing industrial leftovers in gardens (see the garden he designed for his neighbo...

Succulent Circle - We’ve been eyeballing this project all last summer. Just down the road from us along the Great Highway, there are some old garden plots marked by narrow o...

My Sister's Shattered Circus Dreams... - My youngest sister is quite cool. She sometimes likes to do things that I would call "outside of the box". I am more of the "stay inside the box" type. ...

Photo Editing – Keepers and Cropping - Winter is the time to catch up on all the photography editing and post production from during the past year. Or in the case of this sequence of photos, fr...

The Peeping Gardener - Seattle - Ok, this is my last post from the hundreds of photos I took this past summer in Seattle. And I imagine they're going to look quite different than how it ha...

Magazine Review - I came across a new magazine the other week. I can highly recommend The Edible Garden magazine (I think the garden is edible, not the magazine). I am prett...

Blue Sage - This is the first winter in three we've gone this long without freeze or frost damage. I know some of my Florida friends took some hard hits in the beginning...

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Three Neat Plants - Finding plants with interesting foliage is always a treat, but if they’re discouragingly expensive or too fussy to grow successfully, the thrill can go off...

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day January 2012 - Repeated freezes have edited the garden, removing the warm-weather annuals and sending perennials into dormancy. But the temperatures haven't dipped below ...

Bloom Day January 2012 - *Red Kalanchoe * *Snow on the mountain (euphorbia leucocephala) making clouds around the garden* *Star burst clerodendron (clerodendron quadricula...

“Igniting the Cattails” - More pyrotechnics this week in the ESPatch, this time I singe my facial hair with a cattail corn dog that ignited a little faster than I anticipated. A T-R...

Habitat Wall Sculptures - My honey, Kevin Smith, is a skilled woodworker, builder, and artist. One of his pieces that has attracted a lot of attention is this wall sculpture. It’s a...

January Bliss - Amaryllis Alfresco Russian Blues Merlin (l) and his Mum Delia Tasty & colourful salad from my potager today My tree is still there to brighten u...

HAPPY NEW YEAR – or Why Gardens and Cocktails are Good Friends - Well another year has drawn to a close and tonight is the night we all must raise a glass and toast the coming of 2012. I hope that the glass you are raisi...

The Plantominium - The Plantominium is a very simple way of gardening vertically, and a bit of a different approach to making a living wall. It fits in a small envelope, bu...

Merry Christmas! - Click to view card: Merry Christmas to all!

Surfing Seeds - For a long time things had been sedate and the tits and bits which went on in the garden were not enough to stimulate me to write about them. Thankfully, t...

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Reforestation of City Space Milan, Italy - Architects have been struggling with the incorporation of renewable energy components into their projects as demanded by planning authorities. An example b...

talking to trees - Someone recently compared me to a fig tree. I, of course, immediately thought of the strangler fig, but was reassured that that wasn't quite what she meant...

‘Id Mubarak! - It’s ‘Id ul Fitr once again, the Muslim celebration that comes after the month of fasting, Ramadhan. I haven’t posted in a while but what else is new Rest ...

Hand In Hand With Mother Nature - *A Corner Of The Barn * ** Every moment spent in the company of my family is precious. For though I write, once a month, about what is happening in my gar...

Poverty in South Africa - Poverty is not per definition a lack of assets and/or cash. Poor people are in many ways richer than people who can spend/spoil money as water. This is a g...

Jade vines and Starbursts - My Jade Vine is flowering. This is an unexpected gift because this vine shares a trellis with my odontadenia macrantha. I bought the jade vine as a sapling a...

Adieu...yesterday... - Sunset; The time has come to put this blog to rest. 258 posts since I started "aeons" ago. *Thank you to all who have visited over the years and left me ...

I have A New address! - * * *Terra farmer has moved to a new home:) The new* *address is http://kanak7.wordpress.com/ * * * Would love to have all my blogger friends visit my ...

THE SWIMMING POOL - I designed this swimming pool for a client in Anguilla. The existing house had a slight Asian flair and the client wanted to add a studio apartment and poo...

A plant worthy of the Wizard of OZ - I heard of the ‘black boy’ for the first time when I came to live in the UK. I worked in a garden centre in London. One day two of the other employees c...

View from the Top - The southern end of St. Kitts

The Thing in the Compost Bin - reBlogged to compost fungi...

Veggie Harvest - It could be said that we are in the midst of reaping what we have sown. The decision to grow more foodstuffs this year has proven to be a good one. Many t...

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