Finally, after months of paperwork, brainstorming with friends on names, layouts and color-schemes, I’m ready to present my new business enterprise – The Eco Gardening Coach. I even have my own domain name and website – ecogardeningcoach.com. Here’s a glimpse
Author: Byddi Lee
Pure and simple
Sometimes it’s just easier to quit fighting with Blogger and acquiesce to their templates and how they want to do things. A gremlin struck my blog. When? I’m not sure. But when I tried to fix the problem today, I
Happy Occasions in Hong Kong
It was with great delight that we headed back to Hong Kong, this time for the happy occasion of our niece’s wedding. (I know, I know, I’m not old enough to have a niece getting married!) Our previous trip to
Flashes of red
I’d never even seen a pomegranate until the Autumn of 1997. Granted that is 14 years ago, but to me it still feels relatively recent. Then, when we moved into this house, pomegranates were the first things that we harvested
Eco-management
We gardeners are all Eco-managers. We take our piece of the planet and we accelerate, sustain and then abruptly halt natural ecological cycles. Even non-gardeners do this, though they may not pay as much attention to it. Take Mr Lawnlover
Occupy … My house!
I do love having so much wildlife on my front door step, but this week I had a little more wildlife than I bargained for inside my front door – literally right inside the front door – A tiny dark
Little insect – big problem!
They got past immigration. They got got past customs. Heck, they even got past Hawkeye. These miniature invaders sound innocent enough, related as they are to the relatively harmless though annoying common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. That four-chromosomed little critter,
Bird brained
♫ Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory♫ And thus, it is time for planting those native plants you’ve been dying to add to your collection and that cool season garden again. I’m amazed at
In a pinch
If I told you that I found an earwig at between 5 and 6 inches would you be horrified? Well, here’s the proof… Okay – not quite what you were thinking, but this boyo is still plenty big for
Nothing to be sniffed at
Sometimes cute things come in small packages, but in the case of our Master Gardener Advanced Training last week, the biggest cutie was working with the packages! Hawkeye is a rescue dog that has been trained to sniff out vegetable