Life

With the 15-year anniversary for Sidney’s Lifestyle Select around the corner, the store manager takes a breath and reflects on her time on the Peninsula.

I’m headed for Vancouver tomorrow, to spend a night with one daughter and then go with her to the airport to meet the youngest in the family who is returning from a month in Australia.

Rhodos really need an expert to prune them, but if you do your own, please don’t cut off any fat little buds, they are next year’s flowers.

It’s about time to bring in your house plants.

Gray skies today. A shock after all that wonderful, hot, late-summer weather

Electronics and batteries find a new home in Sidney

Today I’d like to talk about hydrangeas

Once we reach September you know we are in for it … it’s fall.

Pots in the bedroom, pots in the hall, some of them big and some of them small.

I never really believed that plants could hear what you were saying, although I sometimes whisper “Oh, you are so beautiful,” to my hibiscus, and it continues to flower