26 Oct
Wellness & Healthy Aging

Grow poppies this season!

This month, many Calgarians will be sporting a red poppy on their coats as a symbol of remembrance. We don’t have fields of them here, but my mother, who spent her childhood in Europe in the 1940s, remembers seeing fields...

25 Oct
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The mighty and the tiny

From my very first introduction, I have been fascinated by bonsai trees. A Japanese friend’s father cultivated them, and when he realized that I was interested in his bonsai, he went into great detail about how he grew and looked...

29 Sep
Wellness & Healthy Aging

Embracing the colours of fall

If we reflect back to grade school, the colours of fall were orange, gold, red, and orange, orange, orange! Bulletin boards would be covered with orange corrugated paper. Strings of orange, red, and gold leaves would be hung around the...

26 Aug
Wellness & Healthy Aging

Gardening friends and foes

Gardeners can have strong opinions about plants. Often, these opinions have been formed through experience … and more often than not, after waging battle with a plant that thrives where it has been planted—and beyond!If you want to see looks...