Andrea’s Path to Plants
Gardens, herbs, and other musings like parenthood, cooking and YYC living
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Well my garden friends, the signs are here. The nights are getting longer and colder. The leaves are turning colour and starting to drop. Do you know what that means? It won’t be long until cold and flu season starts. So let’s get prepared with some immune-boosting herbal remedies. One of the most famous herbal…
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Spring is teasing us again—it’s the last week of April here in Calgary, and while it’s not quite planting time yet, there’s still plenty of garden magic happening. If you’re gardening in Zone 3, now is the perfect moment to observe, document, and prepare, without getting too eager with the rake or shovel. 📋Document Your…
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Every year I attend the Spruce Meadows Market and walk away at the end with a bag full of live boughs. Some years I make a couple arrangements for family and friends. Others I just take the time to focus on my own front door. This year was one of those years. It’s a bit…
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What details of your life could you pay more attention to? That niggling sense … that little voice inside your head … the aha! that gets pushed aside. Our intuition can be so … well, intuitive. When I was quite young, my grandparents left from Canada to visit family in South Africa. I remember sitting…
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As I write this, we are a week into water restrictions in my city. The restrictions are not due to drought, but rather to a large water main break. The impact on the immediate communities is profound. The surrounding areas suffered flooding and the subsequent shut off of their water. While limited services were quickly…
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A long time ago, in a much smaller Calgary, AB, a child was born on a cold, snowy January day. Just kidding. I don’t know if it was actually snowing. Anyways, I wasn’t always into plants. I definitely wasn’t, and still am not, outdoorsy. My childhood allergies in spring and summer often kept me home…
Andrea’s Path to Plants 