Welsh poppies and lady ferns...

...both self-sowing and lovely together. You really don't have to plant anything or design anything around here...if you like a waving palette of poppies, bluebells, fern-fronds etc. etc.

'Tis the time of year to submerge in plant energy and come up only when necessary. Magic.

I've just started up on facebook. 100 computer years later. That's how I roll. Whoops, cd's over, gotta switch it.

Island-time garden design...

Here are some design ideas from Keats Island this past long weekend...(two weeks ago already?)

While I am mildly confused by the rock, I was pleasantly surprised to discover at least one other stump-chair-maker in B.C. (my dad is one).

It takes a certain presence of mind, whilst chain-sawing down a large evergreen tree, to think, "Well, while I'm here, I may as well make a chair."

This person took it to another level, with arm-rests, and a mysterious planting in the seat. That also confuses me a little bit. But still, let's hear it for stump-chairs.

This next item cannot be easily duplicated, due to the time lapse required for the child's bicycle to assume a nostalgic patina whilst hanging in yon olde apple tree. A classic bicycle-garden moment.

This little Full Moon maple (Acer shirasawanum 'Aurea') claims the semi-shade by the kitchen window--a delicate tree amidst the rugged island woods.

So ya--gardener's holiday with the girls--we mowed the grass, and that's about it...