Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010











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Canadian homes and cottages
The language of flowers

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, let's go back to the Victorian era and the language of flowers, sometimes called floriography.

At that time, messages were popularly conveyed using flowers, with secret lovers sending seemingly innocent bouquets to each other to convey their feelings.


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Winter wonderland

With the warm, sunny days of spring still many weeks away, the yearning to see green things growing is welling inside many of us.

Though there may not be many gardening tasks to attend to, the garden still beckons. Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean that we can’t get out and enjoy our yards.


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Gardening? There's an app for that

As smartphones keep getting faster, smaller and loaded with more features, there’s something in it for gardeners: more than a hundred software programs, or applications.


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Flowers a reminder of hope

When dementia stole my mother-in-law's ability to live in the present, we would often try to comfort her with the past. She was born in the sitting room of our old farmhouse, so visiting us was like a trip back in time.
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