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What's New The week of December 27
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Have a Happy New Year! We are closed December 25th to January 2nd. We'll leave you with a look at Spring Gardening 2005!
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| Land Of the Long White Cloud |
Art & The Urban Farmer |
Gardens Are Our Own Spaces |
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| Follow our photographer Akemi Matsubuchi as she travels through New Zealand. |
Writer Jill Fallis visits Marnie Smith, a Vancouver Island gardener who finds bringing art into her garden provides balance between work and pleasure. |
Gardening writer Liz Primeau helps to realize that almost anything can be considered art in the garden. She also provides tips on choosing and placing art into your garden. |
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| Vintage Lois |
The Biophiles with Jim Hole |
Pruning With Confidence |
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| Lois Hole has always been a dedicated supporter of the fine arts and in this article she shows us the endless possibilites for artistic creativity in the garden. |
Jim Hole explores the concept of biophilia, which, in a nutshell, is the innate affiliation that people seek with the natural world. |
In this how-to article, Hole's staff writer Christina McDonald helps us to not fear pruning. All it takes is a little time to learn the basics. |
| Behind the Scenes |
| Lessons Of The Soil |
A Rose By Another Name |
Life, Beauty & The Garden |
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| Karina Low helps us learn the craft of gardening. To stray beyond the theoretical in choosing colours, shapes and arrangements. |
Nestled in this northern desert, the capital city of Iqaluit may not appear to be an ideal gardening environment. Nonetheless, a community garden does exist. Just not a garden a most plant lovers would expect.
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Susan Scott helps us to see that like life, good gardens and good art reveal themselves slowly with little secrets here and there. |
| Natural Inspiration |
Jewels In Our Midst |
Dreaming of A Starry Night |
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| Scott Messenger visits the famous Burmis Tree. A 600 year old tree that coninues to fascinate and inpire artists. |
Nature Nut John Acorn helps us to admire at least some of the insects that inhabit our garden, and see them as lovely accents, not as blemishes. |
Writer Cassie Stocks recreates her favorite Van Gogh painting through colour, texture and form. |