Dahlias
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Flowers From My Garden XVIII: Winning Dahlias
My mother-in-law is a great dahlia aficionado. She mailed me a box of dahlia tubers all the way across the country from her home on Vancouver Island in the Spring. I lovingly cared for them all Summer long, giving them daily maintenance in an effort at coaxing the glorious blooms out of the dull tubers.…
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Vancouver Island Travelogue
Vancouver Island in August is Mother Nature at her most generous. Plump, juicy blackberries drip off the wild bushes everywhere you look. We picked a basket and made a pie. The penultimate decadence is a perfectly ripe fig. August on the island is fig season. We feasted. The hummingbirds get drunk on grape juice. The…
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