by Janice Henshaw – Does the prospect of decorating your home for the holidays send a shiver of excitement down your spine in September? Do you plan for the big event 12 months of the year, hitting Boxing Day and clear-out sales? Or do you wait for the last possible moment to rip open the […]
Seaside Homes: What Does Your Holiday Decorating Style Say About You?
by Linda Petite, Horticulture Centre of the Pacific – Fresh holiday decorations not only make your home look festive,but they also surround your living space with wonderful scents. The evergreen fir has been traditionally used to celebrate winter festivals for thousands of years. Pagans used branches to decorate their homes during Winter Solstice while Romans
West Coast Gardener: Christmas Tree & Greenery Care
story by Janice Henshaw | photos by www.nuttycake.com – Why move from Deep Cove to Sidney? “It was time for a change,” said Simon Kirk. “Everyone wants a new home, right?” Simon was tired of spending four hours each Saturday mowing his acreage in Deep Cove, and he was fed up with all the maintenance
Seaside Homes: Dad, Daughter & Dog – Living in Harmony Due to Innovative Design
by Matt Hall, Wildwood Nursery – Autumn is an exciting time of year for us in the nursery industry. Our daily mail is full of catalogues from our growers, that are brimming with plants to fill our nurseries with in the spring. It’s also when the new cultivars and varieties of plants, bulbs and seeds
West Coast Gardener: Beautiful Botanicals for Next Spring
by Krista Rossato, id8 Design – Increasingly, we are a culture obsessed with success, achievement, and mastery. We benchmark our efforts against statistics, letter grades, pay increases, popular media, and more. Yet, our greatest hurdle is our fear of failure. We agonize over failure – we try to avoid it, we doubt ourselves, we protect
On Design: Dare to Fail, Strive to Learn
