Garden Ornaments

Since it's the middle of the winter, interesting front-yard vegetable gardens are hard to find. Let's take a break from all things practical and have some fun. I'm going to do a series of blogs on the creative garden ornaments and decorations that I've seen in my neighbourhood over the past several years. I promise--no gnomes or wishing wells! I like seeing the pottery when I walk on the back lane past this garage:

Oops, this chair has no seat anymore, but it's a colourful addition to the corner:This chair's rocking days are over:

More fun to come...

Airport Food at O'Hare

In the bustle of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, it is easy to miss the new O'Hare Urban Garden. Its towers are a showpiece of growing edibles with the newest technology, successful enough to produce herbs and vegetables for some of the airport's restaurants. You can find the world's first vertical aeroponic garden in an airport in the rotunda between Terminals 2 and 3.

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What's Growing in December?

The days are lengthening! With the current warmer spell, after the freezing weather in November and early December, some plants are looking more alive. Things to look for in these photos of front yard, boulevard, and lane gardens all taken in the Dunbar and Point Grey area of Vancouver: winter protection (or not), carrots, chicory, kale, kale, kale, cabbage, leeks, rye grass cover crop, green and red mustard, mâche, Brussels sprouts, radicchio, a blueberry bush, poppy seedlings.

This garden is known for nary a weed, but with the repetition of plants, I'm beginning to suspect that a fancy restaurant gets those tender greens.
A closer look at the radicchio:I know that this front-yard garden is a market garden:
And so is this large productive one, on the south-facing slope at the corner of Blenheim and West 41st Avenue, only a small portion of which is shown here: