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House Beautiful: A lifelong love affair with stones

House Beautiful: A lifelong love affair with stones

Gardener-collector of evergreens, maples and giant rocks opens her stunning Uplands garden for the Victoria Conservatory of Music garden tour.
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Pansies, violas among easiest transplants to grow from seed

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Pansies, violas among easiest transplants to grow from seed

Seed pansies and violas indoors in late winter and in mid-July for transplants to bloom during autumn and winter before full flowering in spring.
Helen Chesnut: This month a reminder of seasons that used to be

Helen Chesnut: This month a reminder of seasons that used to be

Time to complete spring projects that help to smooth the passage to summer in the garden.
Condo Smarts: No exemptions to change in depreciation reports

Condo Smarts: No exemptions to change in depreciation reports

Depreciation reports will now have a five-year renewal cycle
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Evergreen perennials retain foliage year round

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Evergreen perennials retain foliage year round

One example, Epimedium (barrenwort, bishop’s hat), forms dense carpets of heart-shaped leaves and delicate flowers like miniature columbines appear in spring.
Condo Smarts: Do strata fees still apply during a major claim?

Condo Smarts: Do strata fees still apply during a major claim?

Strata corporation has no choice but to collect the strata fees
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Much to enjoy in early April garden

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Much to enjoy in early April garden

Time to complete several major vegetable seedings and set up lengths of fencing to support later plantings
House Beautiful: Heaven on the lake

House Beautiful: Heaven on the lake

Third renovation on Prospect Lake moves couple to their perfect piece of paradise.
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: If soil is too dry, too wet, arrowhead will flop

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: If soil is too dry, too wet, arrowhead will flop

Arrowhead, like most plants, will do a nose dive if the soil has been allowed to dry. The same will happen if the soil is kept wet, which can set up rotting in the roots and subsequent plant collapse.
Condo Smarts: Even small stratas must follow Strata Property Act

Condo Smarts: Even small stratas must follow Strata Property Act

Bylaws are law, not just a reference