Peperomia rotundifolia
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Click title to see full photo. Oxalis Corymbosa
Click title to see full photo. What’s on Your Windowsill? (Plus Giveaway)
A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine! Descending into the Valley of Desolation
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Click title to see full photo. The Requirement to Garden
This is a long one. I suggest you make a cup of tea and a snack before starting.
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your Beehive Ginger
Click title to see full photo. Frangipani Tree (Barbados)
Click title to see full photo. February at the Community Garden
We popped over to the community garden yesterday afternoon with a frozen pail of compost. I thought I would take some pictures so you can see what it looks like in the middle of winter.
As you can Field Trip to Richters Herbs
Last Friday, a friend with a car (THANK YOU JOHN, I hearby bequeath my first born to you. The cat is also an option.) drove Davin, myself, and another friend on a field trip to READ MORE...Caladium in the Lawn
You know, I've never much cared for caladium. They've always been a "whatever" plant in my book, a humdrum bit of foliage most often seen crammed into decorative baskets and seasonal greenhouse exhibits. Who cares? (Perhaps This Week’s Inspiration
Yesterday I posed the question, What is inspiring your edible garden this year? I think it is only fair that I join in and divulge my current inspirations for the 2010 growing season.
I saw this First Sighting in the Wild & Ten Years!
It's a big week over here as my new book, "Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces" (I'm already an expert at saying the title super fast) hits bookstores TODAY!
Except that we spotted Garden Tour: Erika’s Small Apartment of Small Plants
Yesterday afternoon I was invited into the apartment of a fellow Parkdale resident to check out her collection of fascinating and unusual plants. The visit brought the plant junky in me out in full force. I went Foodcycles
Back in August 2009 my friend Laura asked me if I wanted to take a quick jaunt out to the burbs to take some pictures of the Foodcycles farm.
At the time we had Experiencing Fresh Cacao: The Sequel
Two years ago I wrote about my disappointing experience eating fresh cacao in Cuba. Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is the tree that chocolate comes from. The fruit is a big pod that forms directly on the trunk Standing in the Shadow of a Massive Euphorbia
Can you believe the size of this thing? Me neither. I have not seen a euphorbia of this size before or since.
This photo was taken at the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Bathsheba, Barbados. Stevie, Not Wonder
My epic trip has come to an end and I've been back in the freezing north for a few days. Brrr.... It's time now to begin processing the experience for myself as well as find a Dispatches from the Land of the Lost
If I had to describe Dominica's flora with one word, I think I would choose "giant." Or possibly "huge."
"Lush" is a good word but I'm not sure it can convey the kind of extreme lushness I Making Sorrel with Fresh Hibiscus
Sorrel or rum punch (sorrel spiked with rum) is a popular, refreshing drink in the Caribbean, especially during the holiday season.
Knowing this, I was particularly excited to get to the market and get my hands on
