Fresh food is good food, and the freshest food you can get is food you grow yourself. However, not everyone has space, where they live to grow anything. This is where community gardens enter the picture.

From My Garden: Gardening How-tos, Insights and Essays. Bob Ewing, permaculture designer, garden writer. Lorne Publishing: Background: This book is based upon my personal experiences as a gardener, garden

I post this photo to celebrate the blue sky and bright sun today has provided.

Heavy snow is falling. Soon spring will be here. The snow will melt. The flowers burst from the earth. Spring brings hope. Life starts anew.

Microclimates exist in the natural world, hills, trees, rocks and depressions and so on. Gardeners can also create or use existing human-made microclimates. A house, other buildings, and fences, on a property,

I love to garden. Anything that prevents me from doing so would be most unwelcome. There are many benefits to be gained from the garden, above and beyond growing your own food. Gardening gets me outside

Good evening. I took this photo a few minutes ago with my smartphone. I did a bit of manipulation in camera. This second photo is the same shot but run through Sketchcamera before posting. I like both.

The most common mistake that many houseplant owners make is related to watering. They either over or under water the plant. This is more complicated as the season change as the indoor conditions can be

Floral Arrangements: The number of flowers in the arrangement is not the issue. Sometimes a single rose provides a strong impact. The following will help you expand upon that and develop the ability to

As I go through my photos I am enjoying creating effects with the software that came with my Canon Rebel T5. There are a few possibilities to alter the original image.

I enjoy manipulating the photos I take. Over the years I have compiled thousands of images a few are good, the rest well they give me something to experiment with. This one was cropped from the original

As a freezing rain is falling I am wandering through my old photos. I took this one in St. John's NFLD in 1992. It was rephotographed with my smartphone and touched up. This orchid was taken with my

I'm considering creating my own line of cards, not ecards, but hard copy on post-consumer recycled paper, cards. Cards one can mail. perhaps do a few postcards as well. This is one image I am giving thought

This is blooming in our kitchen. The last of many to brighten the room.

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Some love annuals because they make excellent cutflowers; some because annuals are easy to grow; some love them for their

Nature and our gardens bloom with colours in many shades. This diversity creates a meaningful palette for the grower.

Last August we were out with a friend driving around Renfrew County. Stopping alongside a river, I was able to capture this thistle. This photo was taken with my Samsung smartphone.

"The Canadian Tulip Festival has been celebrating the tulip, an international symbol of friendship and peace, since 1953. The first Canadian Tulip Festival was led by the Ottawa Board of Trade (now

Both during and after a rainfall, flowers take on another dimension. The raindrops add depth.

Gardening Tips: These tips will help the beginning gardener get the garden off to a sound start. They will also remind the experienced gardener about the basics. It never hurts to brush up on the basics;