tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23994612137615300432024-03-14T02:17:35.925-04:00kathyrenwaldKathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-38608175812099864702022-02-06T12:36:00.005-05:002022-02-06T12:43:27.643-05:00<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">February 6,2020</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For a retreat from the cold visit the Gage Park Tropical Greenhouse at Hamilton's Gage Park. It's free. It's open after the lates pandemic shut down.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="@kathyrenwald" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gage Park Tropical Grennhouse" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv3TbQzqwBtfyboktTgEqv96V2tnyHhPnCvzOu4x0dKG2DK0yKVgpSJcDLFCSxJTMnpl0zbK1wpfBxaRIe2p_wFTPEkIywQCFnHaaUTNh1CdtUcJYL_kqHlGH_qCB19M83Fz85IpSwVi48wANXxik3wnET1EO7R0_6CfnBRxMENSYrPP1G5vhGc0lk=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Instagram:@kathyrenwald<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a href=" https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZkUF2EFruP/?utm_medium=share_sheet"> https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZkUF2EFruP/?utm_medium=share_sheet</a></span></p>Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-13803408520757922102020-05-30T12:24:00.013-04:002020-05-30T13:17:15.583-04:00Dividing Elelphant Ears<div class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> My elephant ear plant is at least 10 year’s old and it’s so cramped in the pot it’s fighting for its life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> Several thick trunks, the size of a caveman’s club choke the growth of new plants struggling for space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> Most elephant ears sold here come in two type-ones with leaves pointing down, properly called colocasia, and those with the leaves pointed up called alocasia. I have both types, but the one needing dividing is an alocasia. You will also see them called Taro plants as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> My take is, the dividing should have happened in the fall. But I alway remember the advice of a garden sage. When asked the best time to prune, he said when you have the time. And we all have time now don’t we?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> I checked some books, some online sites, and looked at You Tube videos and the information was spotty, or suited to moderate climates where elephant ears live outside year long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> So using bits and pieces from everywhere I took the knife, the pick and the pruning saw into my hands and went at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> First the elephant ear came out of its cramped pot, and was plunged into a big tub of water with a weak solution of fertilizer. I let it soak up the potion for a couple of days. Keep in mind, this plant loves water and nutrients at all times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> After spreading out a big tarp, the elephant ears came out of the pot for inspection. Roots were winding around and around, and four or five trunks were practically welded together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> I spread out all my tools on a table like a frontier dentist and selected a hook shaped weeder to tease the roots apart. It was surprising easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> The trunks needed to be sawed apart. I started with a pruning saw, but it was too big for the cramped space. Turns out the best tool wasn’t in the bag, but in the kitchen-a bread knife. Not my best one, but a “B” team knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VwnL6KJt6Xk/XtKKdbuhDlI/AAAAAAAAKis/LiROYdsAiLA7kIbVTvYlxo1dMBsCx87mQCK4BGAsYHg/IMG_2757.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1154" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VwnL6KJt6Xk/XtKKdbuhDlI/AAAAAAAAKis/LiROYdsAiLA7kIbVTvYlxo1dMBsCx87mQCK4BGAsYHg/w640-h480/IMG_2757.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> After trimming off some of the longest roots, the new plants were put into fresh potting soil, mixed with composted manure and a bit of granular fertilizer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> Alocasia grow from both tubers and rhizomes, some types have a history as an edible crop. It is recommended to wear gloves when doing work such as dividing and cutting off leaves, since the liquid released is a skin irritant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> I now have six pots of elephant ears in various states and sizes, and a few random pieces that I may plant directing in the ground to see what happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> My intention was to give some of these plants away. That may happen in the future but I’m really intrigued by how they will grow, so they’ll stay here. And also I am not good at sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> In the past, the alocasia has moved indoors for the winter with all its leaves in full glory, some years it looks fabulous, others not so much. Another option would be to cut off the leaves in the fall, and move it indoors to a cool space where it idles until the spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> Both types are fabulous choices to give a tropical flair to the garden. The colocasia with its downward facing leaves that sway in the slightest wind is truly spectacular. Varieties such as Mojito, splashed with streaks of black, are worth the investment, but are hard to find. If you do nab a special one, store it for the winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a bunch of pots to stare at.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"> And here's a video on dividing the elephant ear.</span></div><div class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 29.3333px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 48px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;">March 27, 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Kathy Renwald<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;">When potter Scott Barnim
moved in to his 1860’s Dundas home, it was already in an altered state. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Way back in 1899 the ground floor of the
stately Georgian stone house was peeled away to make room for a carriage shed
and a stable. Horses on the ground floor, and people on the second.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the time Walter Chisholm built the house
and became the first town clerk of Dundas, it was occupied by movers and
shakers. After Chisholm, the successful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Laing family moved in, builders of the Laing block on King Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the turn of the century the Grafton's
owned it, their successful businesses employed 400 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Tom Folkes settled in around 1927 he ran
a busy riding academy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the equally industrious Barnim is
retooling the house for his needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I work a lot,” he says from the sales shop located
where the carriages used to park, “At least 40 hours and more a week.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually he would have a student assistant,
now in these Covid times, the work is solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His pieces, domestic and useable as he
describes them, fill shelves, tables, and walls in the shop. It’s closed
now,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but the business is open for porch
pickup and shipping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the 1970’s he’s been constantly
producing, but his work found its feet after a placement in a masters ceramic
program in Cardiff Wales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A professor said to him, “You’re a craft
potter, don’t let people pick on you for that.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Barnim was instructed to go out with a sketchbook and draw things he
loved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I had to learn to decorate, I sketched the
fish at the market,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their shapes and
pattern, that ended up on my pottery.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barnim’s intrinsic feel for shape and texture
was squeezed for all its worth in his recent reimagining of his heritage home.
He turned the 2,000 square foot main living space into an academic rental, and
he moved into the hayloft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 450 square feet, the hayloft-apartment is
packed with charm. It has a tiny bedroom, and a tinier kitchen, and a living
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Welsh dresser is where I put the pieces
I need to set the table,” Barnim says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the redesign, Barnim worked with his
longtime friend, designer Phyllis Tresidder. They shopped for fabric and paint
and she advised on areas to highlight and areas to “paint out”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To ready the rental apartment, Barnim worked
on the jobs inherited in an old house. Layers of linoleum coated with horse
hide glue,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were pried off original red
pine floors. Plaster walls, held together with old wallpaper, needed rescue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work wasn’t daunting for Barnim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m good at that kind of
thing, I could have been a builder.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tour through the house is part art history
lesson, an antique roadshow, and family memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barnim used his own pieces to furnish the
apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A table in the dining room is
the one where threshing crews ate at his grandparent’s farm, a quilt in the
hallway came from a trade with Burlington artist John Willard, the many
paintings reflect the talent of the Dundas artistic community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fully stocked, thoughtfully decorated, the
apartment is listed with McMaster University’s academical rental program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You can walk in with your backpack and have
a dinner party tomorrow night,” Barnim says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extra income of $2,500 a month is welcome,
and may help in a future project of restoring the front of the house to the original.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the historical designation says it was
once a beautiful Georgian stone building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’d love to put the house back,” Barnim says
just a bit wistfully. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even as it is, framed by waving branches of
spruce and pine trees, it is a thing of beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-16403742221983165012019-12-13T13:53:00.000-05:002019-12-13T13:53:01.898-05:00Let's Cherish our Gardens
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just pretty. They all do their bit to make the city liveable. The trees improve
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garden, with a carpet of plants helps to keep water from overwhelming the sewer
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wastewater treatment plants, combined sewer overflows, these things, the
intestines of our city are much on our minds. That's why we must
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do a lot of speaking engagements I would often be introduced by a man (sorry
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parking lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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focus on the “pretty” things, the gardens and parks in our city, I carry around
a bag full of grudges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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public meeting for a new development. In my neighbourhood some developers of
future condominium blocks are asking to be relieved of landscape requirements.
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requests granted? It’s hard to tell unless you follow the development through
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city has a 50 percent green space requirement for front yards that is supposed
to prevent average Joe homeowner from paving the entire front yard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this hostility to plants come from? Notice real estate photos. Houses are
renovated from roof to basement, but the yard is a dismal defeated patch of
grass with a volcano of mulch masquerading as a garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a home renovation would contain many big-ticket items. Is it so painful to plunk
down a hundred bucks for a pretty, beneficial, tree, or order one from the
city for free?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leak story broke in the Spectator, it caused many to reflect on the state of
our city. It’s not just about the open gate at the holding tank, or the
withholding of vital information, it’s about the way we live and the choices we
make. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when the Parks Canada Discovery Centre was built on the waterfront, Ken Parker
was bought in to advise on landscaping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wonderful native plant nursery called Sweetgrass Gardens on the Six Nations
Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Using Ken’s
expertise smart things happened. The parking lot was broken up with plantings
of trees and shrubs. They filtered the storm water run-off and changed the
nature of the parking lot from ugly to intriguing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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side of the Discovery Centre a garden of native plants and a tranquil pond made
a thoughtful connection to the harbour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remains of that little oasis. Paved over for the restaurant that followed and
failed. The trees in the parking lot remain, but Parker has moved on to
Buffalo, where he is helping people understand the connection we need to
protect between plants and a livable city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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important than ever to treasure our pretty gardens, and to plant more of them.
They improve our mental health, cool and filter the air, and soak up rain.
There is not one single downside to a garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s March. The Red Wing blackbirds are back. Snowdrops are
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been thinking hard about gardening. He’ll tell you what he thinks tomorrow
night at the Royal Botanical Gardens in a talk he calls The Know Maintenance
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years-old and I don’t care what other people think,” Diblik is saying over the
phone as he wrestles with the watering system at his Northwind Perennial Farm
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grower, a perennial plant expert, designer, speaker and authour. He’s
provocative and blunt, and if you hear him talk tomorrow night, I’m sure he’ll
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There are so
many things that perennials can do to heal the earth,” Diblik says in a long,
interesting monologue about plants. He talks about plants in a poetic way, how
they like to live in communities, be close to each other and be social. When he
designs a garden he looks at it like a universe he says, where the plants are
in a happy relationship. “Beauty does not have to be expensive.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work he
has done in Chicago is a vivid snapshot of his style. His plantings around the
Shed Aquarium, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Louis Sullivan Gateway Arch
evoke a gorgeous meadow in full bloom. The Gateway Arch picked up cues from the
nearby Lurie Garden in Millennium Park. I visited that garden two years ago and
loved its texture and diversity. To look at the rich swath of perennials
against the Chicago skyline was breathtaking.</span></div>
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The Know Maintenance <span style="font-size: 18pt;">Garden is the</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">accumulation of his life’s work.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">As he describes it, we have to really
know where we live, and what plants will thrive. The type of soil, the
temperature extremes, the wind direction, how much shade and sun the garden
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by sustainability and ecological concerns his gardens are also are beautiful
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designers want to categorize and put things in a box, if it doesn’t work it’s
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Diblik uses plants we know and use here in Hamilton, the durable coneflowers,
daisies, asters and ornamental grasses to name a few. But he doesn’t restrict
his designs to native plants, as long as they are hardy and their growth rate
and cultural needs suit the garden, they are considered.</span></div>
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“know maintenance” approach includes time saving gardening methods. Starting in
early spring he recommends using a Dutch hoe to weed the garden. The Dutch hoe
allows you to weed the garden fast and in an upright position. By August when
the good plants have filled in, “observational weeding” takes over-that is
simply pulling weeds by hand.</span></div>
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perennial gardens he uses a mulching mower and mows the garden in early spring
leaving the debris in place. New growth, including bulbs push up through the
layer of healthy debris “like their ancestors did."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dark
Nostalgia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Kathy
Renwald<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Step
into the world of illusion and mystery. Pause at the fortune teller, see the
curling lip on the ventriloquist’s dummy and don’t forget to pick up a glass
eyeball. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Welcome
to the home of Ron and Gayle Eady at the intersection of dark and light.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Some
people get it and some people don’t,” Ron says.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “It”
is a boxy commercial building in the Stinson Neighbourhood the couple bought 10
years ago. They left behind a lovely old farmhouse in Burlington to move
downtown. Now, close to the CP main line, “We have a great view of the
Christmas train,” near parks and the escarpment they are happily imbedded in
the gritty creativity of Hamilton.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “We
made the move at the right time,” Gayle says. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> House prices were high in
Burlington and low in Hamilton. The sale allowed Ron to quit his job at outdoor
advertising company Eclipse Imaging of Burlington, to concentrate full time on
art. His paintings based on industrial images, were taking off.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> The
building was a blank slate to showcase his art, and their
antiques. They’ve been collecting for 40 years. In the past 15 years
the focus has been on ventriloquist dummies. The marvelous and macabre faces
appear to follow you through the house. They come from England, France and the
US, dating to the 1800’s, beautifully crafted and haunting.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I
like them because they are pieces of art, hand carved, and hand painted,” Ron
says.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> A
display of medical mannequins occupies a special place in the house. Dentists
and eye doctors needed to practice their skills, and the mannequins awaited.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “To
go to the trouble to make these so beautifully, some have gears so the head can
be tilted, the craftsmanship is wonderful,” says Gayle.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Beyond
the mannequin display is Ron’s office where a tiger from an original circus
wagon looks over the room and more medical curiosities are arranged on the
artist’s desk. “Early on I did a series on quack medicine, but these
props don’t make their way into my paintings now.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Their
personal collection of dummies, carnival games, eyeballs, hotel signs, even an
HSR rotating bus sign remains at home, but they also sell pieces through their
business Vintage Stylings. They have stalls at the Hamilton Antique Mall on
Ottawa Street and Southworks Antiques in Cambridge.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Though
the props aren’t represented in Ron’s paintings, they act as inspiration he
says. His big industrial landscapes capture the darkness of
smokestacks, blast furnaces, raw metals, and lonely freighters on vast grey
lakes. Even when he ventures to paint a natural landscape, a canoe on a pond
for instance, you have the sense that something is going to go wrong.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I
like illusive imagery, it makes you ask, ‘What’s going on here.’” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Eady’s (<span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.roneady\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><u><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.roneady.com</span></u></span>) paintings in oil and
encaustic are in private and public collections in Canada and the US. He is
represented by the Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto and Earls Court Gallery in
Hamilton where his next solo show is in 2019.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Making
a home in a big box allowed space for both a painting and sculpture studio.
Using old beams, Eady is sculpting bold figures that seem to pick up cues from
both the ventriloquist’s dummies and medical mannequins. “I like to
use the character of the wood to let the personality come out.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> All
three of the Eady’s daughters are artists, involved in photography, fashion
design and collage, and surprising to Gayle they all love antiques.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I
call it dark nostalgia, that’s what I see in my paintings and in our
collection,” Ron says.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> “We
both love coming into Hamilton on Burlington Street and the factory views,”
Gayle says, “And then coming in on the beautiful Cootes Paradise side we feel
so lucky to be here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dutch Touch</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Kathy
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Wherever
he lands in the world Gerard Bos unpacks his shipping container and makes a
comfy home. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Six
weeks ago Bos moved to Hamilton from Tokyo where was he was Customer Experience
Manager for Ikea Japan</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">“My
container arrived from Tokyo and then I’m</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">like a little animal
about to go into hibernation.</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">It
has to be all unpacked I just need to have it finished. I have a busy job, I’m
travelling a lot, and it’s important to me that I don’t live out of boxes for
three or four months.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">When
Bos signed on for a three-year assignment as Customer Experience Manager for
Ikea Canada, he naturally assumed he’d live in Toronto. “I thought that was the
place to be,” he says.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">But
it took just one rush hour drive from Toronto to Ikea head office in Burlington
for Bos to change his mind.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">He
started to look for a place to live close by. Location agents showed him 20
rentals mostly in Burlington and Oakville, but missing was the spark of the big
cities he’d lived in across Europe where he worked for Ikea and</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">before that for British
Airways.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">"Being
in the home furnishing business, home is important to me, I need to feel at
home the minute I open the door,</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">particularly
when you live in different countries over the years, that’s even more
important.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">So Bos, a native of
Holland started his own home search and focused on Hamilton. "I started to
look on Realtor and Kijiji, than driving one day I spotted the building and
thought “This is lovely.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">The
building was in the Stinson neighbourhood, a former factory converted to lofts.
Bos walked in and said ‘This is it.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">And
it is lovely, with warm wood floors, exposed</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">beams,
and big windows with deep sills. The street with houses dating to the 1870’s,
is “like stepping back in time” Bos says.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">When
the container arrived it didn’t take Bos long to put things in order. His
pieces are well travelled, Switzerland, Belgium London, Glasgow, the island
Jersey, Tokyo and more.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">"This
is why home is so important, you gather your own things, develop style, the
minute your container arrives and you take your things out and find a home for
them that suits that layout, and somehow it always works.” </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Though
the loft in Hamilton is two floors, most time is spent on the open space main
floor that encompasses the kitchen, dining area, living spaces, office and
bedroom.</span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Walk
in the front door and you’re immediately in the living space. An antique chest
of drawers purchased in London in the 90’s and a slim wooden shelf mounted by
the front door help organize arrival and departure clutter.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">To
the right is the living room, with a gas fireplace glowing and morning light
coming in the from the east. “This has the loft look but it doesn’t have that
emptiness you sometimes get in lofts because the ceilings aren’t that high. I
like a warm, cozy feel in the home,” Bos says.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">A
big leather sofa faces am iconic Noguchi coffee table Bos bought in Belgium 20
years ago, and two Italian designed chairs, are also well travelled. “I love
their shape, and they are very comfortable.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Factory
sized windows have minimal coverings, and the deep sills are all used for
displays of pieces collected over the years.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></b></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">“I
grew up at home with plants and flowers on the window sills, that’s quite
common in Holland. These sills are almost like cabinets and great to display
the things you love. I do love my Dutch touches.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">A
compact and efficient kitchen faces a small dining area where Bos has grouped
“up-cycled” wooden chairs with a mango wood table.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Beyond
the kitchen and framed by hefty wood pillars and ceiling beams another sitting
area showcases a beautiful antique glass cabinet that stores dishes, cups and
books. It has moved seven times with Bos. A striking orange two-seater sofa
divides living room from bedroom. “I spotted it in Sweden in the Ikea design centre
before it was launched and had to have it.” Bos swapped out the wooden legs for
metal ones for a modern look, using Ikea’s clever mix and match theory of
flexible design. He did the same at his window-facing desk, resting a rectangle
of bamboo wood on top of an Ikea set of drawers for a warm approach to office
decor.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">In
many ways Bos’s loft is like a living lab of design solutions. Storage space is
at a minimum, so he uses cabinets, trolleys on wheels, and chests for storage.
“I’m not a minimalist, but I don’t like a lot of clutter,” he says. To expand
the sense of space at night he uses small Ikea floor lamps in each corner of
the room.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Ikea’s
philosophy of accessible design and flexible solutions comes naturally to the
52-year-old.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">“Because
(the loft) is all open space you need to think about colour schemes, using
similar tones, and then creating compartments within the open space, for
sleeping work, and dining. If the flooring is the same throughout it helps.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><span class="m7913834346563603555gmail-s1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";">Between
getting to know Ikea’s 13 major stores across Canada, Bos wants to get to know
Hamilton. “I appreciate the diversity and creativity, there’s a nice feel about
this city that I like.”</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it all looks better through the windows with “the Dutch touch."</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-10736917338121537692017-03-16T10:10:00.000-04:002017-03-16T10:10:47.368-04:00The Path to Pottery<a href="http://www.thespec.com/living-story/7191404-kathy-renwald-the-path-to-pottery/">Potter and Pioneer: Emma Smith</a><br />
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When Emma Smith and her husband Jesse Black bought their house in Jerseyville
three years ago, they were attracted to the big backyard and the commercial
zoning designation of the ground floor. Both of them needed work space, Smith
is a potter and Black is a carpenter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“We learned a lesson though”, 26-year-old Smith says, “do your research.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The only permitted use of the ground floor commercial space was as a general
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So the young couple, Burlington natives, eased into the idea. They spruced up
the ground floor, started contacting Canadian artisans and less than a year ago
opened Black & Smith Country General, as Smith describes it, a country
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Inside the warm and cozy space, hand made goods line shelves and rustic tables.
Linen tea towels from Nova Scotia are on display along with pillows, wooden
animals, cards, bags, books, soap, scissors and jewellery by CP Metal of
Dundas. Several sets of shelves are devoted to pottery, including Smith’s
wood-fired porcelain and stoneware.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At the back of the ground floor Smith has her pottery studio where a wheel is
set up to catch the natural light from a window and shelves are lined with
bowls, cups and jugs waiting to fired. Between customers, Smith may do
some studio work, but the general store, at the crossroad of Jerseyville Road
and Sunny ridge Road has been busy. “It’s been building slowly,” Smith says.
“The community has been so supportive, but people are coming from Toronto and
as far away as Barrie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The path to pottery has been an intriguing one for Smith. A good science
student, she was thinking of a career in medicine before a Rotary exchange to
Thailand changed everything. “I lived with a family above a convenience store,
they had very little but they were so happy. I wasn't sure I was choosing
medicine for the right reasons.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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She came home, and learned pottery at Sheridan College and Haliburton School of
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control, but once it gets to the kiln it’s out of my control.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> Smith’s jugs and bowls,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #313131; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #313131; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">expressive and
somehow yearning to be touched,</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">are fired in a wood kiln, a
process with deep mystery and magic. The kiln must be stoked with wood for
hours and hours to get it to 2300 F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Different types of wood mark the clay in unpredictable ways finishing
the pieces with surprising color and pattern. It’s a process she loves, being
out somewhere in the country where the wood kilns waits to be loaded.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“The four in the morning shift, when no one else is awake and it’s just you
with the kiln and you can hear all the animals waking up, the sun is coming up,
it’s quiet and you have this roaring fire, that is what I do it all for.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That romance blends in with the hard work of creating the ceramics,
participating in shows, teaching courses at her studio and Mohawk College, and
running Black & Smith Country General(<a href="http://blacksmithcountrygeneral.com/"><span style="color: #103cc0;">blacksmithcountrygeneral.com</span></a>),
where the unpredictable happens too according to Smith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-42138631455453167772016-12-15T10:07:00.001-05:002016-12-15T10:07:08.689-05:00A Personal Museum<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_yRw-AbjAg" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-2212921062635635922016-12-15T10:03:00.002-05:002016-12-15T10:05:43.097-05:00A thoughtful way to live. The home of Marguerite Larmand in Simcoe, Ontario<div class="Body">
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first home Marguerite Larmand shaped for herself was in
a hawthorn grove on the family farm. She was one of ten kids and needed to find
a solitary space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decorated with
the objects she loved, the clearing among the trees became a refuge. “It was a
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space around her a personal museum. She turned an old hotel in Brantford into a
home, made the Burford Armoury her private residence, and now is nesting in
Simcoe in a hundred year old house she has named Six Directions Studio
(facebook.com/sixdirectionsstudio/).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The walls are my paper,” Larmand says, pointing to a
spot where she tested 12 shades of white paint, before selecting Benjamin Moore
Mascarpone for her backdrop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For thirty-five years Larmand taught art in Hamilton
schools, from elementary to high school, to McMaster University as an
instructor in the sculpture studio. And always she created her own work,
paintings, ceramics, installations in the landscape, textiles, sculpting with
wood and willow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In November she had a show at the Carnegie Gallery
Barber Atrium and now the soaring three-dimensional willow works have returned
to her home in Simcoe, where she says, they have space to breathe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A generous sort of geometry defines each room and allows the
display of art to seem effortless. In the 20 by 20 foot living room, which
Larmand calls a “room within a room” three sofas square off in front of the fireplace,
and beyond that border, works in wire and willow, busts, paintings, pottery and
plants are arranged for contemplation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This idea of contemplation has become a bit of a magnificent
obsession for Larmand, so much so that she wants to write a book about her
house, art and the beauty of ordinary objects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter one could start in her dining room where the
“repository of images” are both striking and subtle. On a ten-foot long table
made of hemlock and spruce a glass vase holds spiny, dried branches of Japanese
knotweed. An invasive plant cursed by gardeners, it spreads in an arc and
almost touches one of Larmand’s massive willow constructions. She calls them
drawings, and painted black, lashed together, almost to prevent their escape
they do seem like bold strokes of charcoal floated off a page. On the table a
platter made by Larmand is marked with chevrons-like butterfly shadows, and
holds an aspen branch collected on a walk. On the end wall a painting called
Cherry Orchard repeats the linear beauty of the table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You don’t stop being a teacher,” Larmand says as we sit and
talk at the table. The lesson here is open your eyes and observe. The weathered
branch, the despised weed, “They have their own spirit, they show nature
evolving,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wall shelves are lined with beautiful tea bowls, glasses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>boxes, stones and seeds. Over the
fireplace is Larmand’s sculpture called Wind Deflector, a piece that takes her
back to the family farm and the many hours spent splitting wood for the stove.
On the hearth, beautiful dried squash sit displaying their marbleized skin, a
pattern Larmand tried to capture in her ceramic glazes. Paper whites are ready
to bloom, and a pencil cactus preens in the light of east facing windows. The
room is the antithesis of generic, hotel room style décor one sees everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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place where you live, a place where I work, it’s my own personal museum. What I
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Unplugged and Loving</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://www.thespec.com/living-story/6919719-renwald-living-large-in-a-small-hamilton-home/">http://www.thespec.com/living-story/6919719-renwald-living-large-in-a-small-hamilton-home/</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Colleen Gaffney is living the unplugged life in Hamilton and
loving it. No toaster, no TV, no worries. The 55- year old shed a
lot of stuff and a lot of square feet when she moved from Barrie to Hamilton
four years ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> "I didn't want to buy right away, so I looked
at a lot of apartments, then I found this perfect house.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> The house in the Strathcona Neighbourhood is 600
square-feet, the one she left behind was 2000. She was particularly pleased at
the adequate but not lavish number of electrical outlets. “I got rid of tons of things that
plugged in. I got rid of things with one purpose, so I don't have a kettle
anymore, a toaster, a hairdryer or a coffeemaker."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> When she told friends in Barrie she was taking a job
at Hamilton Health Sciences they told her she would love Hamilton. She didn't
know much it but it didn't take much time to fell welcome. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">“I love the art scene, the music, the food, and proximity to
Niagara. Colleen found her tiny house, on a search on the hospital intranet. As
soon as she walked in she could picture a life with paired down possessions. She
liked the light, the wide open space, the door opening to patio and proximity
to work. Though she has a car, it's rarely in use, she walks, takes transit or
Sobies around town. Soon her office will move from a mountain location closer
to home. She’ll be parking her pencils at an office at Jackson Square. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> "I work in
integrated decision support." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> "Just say I do
software training."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> In her little house much of the action takes place
in one room. That's where the kitchen, living room, dining room and sort-of-spare
bedroom reside. " I've had dinner parties for eight and five people
sleeping over.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> The kitchen with a big el shaped counter faces the
living room. Though it has less storage space than she was used to, careful
planning keeps it running smoothly for an avid cook.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> In one corner is the flexible dining area. A wooden
table, belonging to her late husbands family, seats eight when expanded.
Colleen painted the antique chairs red and reupholstered in a bold botanic print.
Over the table a rug from Mexico carries on the red theme.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> On the opposite wall a day bed from Ikea adds more seating
and serves as the guest room. "It's a nice place to sleep, sometimes you
can see the moon cross the skylight.” A selection of hats hang nearby-Gaffney
has a fondness for the, but they might be streamlined out soon since they are getting
the squeeze from her art collection</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> A wooden cabinet stores books, dishes and glasses
and anchors an art assemblage including pottery, textiles, sculpture and
interesting metal piece that evokes a book cover, or according to Gaffney’s dad
something that looks like it was run over by a car.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> In the living room,
red turns up in carpets from Iran, a wooden chest belonging to her dad, and a
chair and ottoman Gaffney bargained for and had reupholstered in Hamilton. A
wee rocking chair from her childhood holds throws and scarves. She was the first girl born in a family
of six, so got her name painted on her chair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> It took just two
days to put her house in order after she moved in. She measured all her
furniture in Barrie, had the measurements of her tiny house, so she made a floor
plan of what would fit. “I just kept the things I loved,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> In warm weather
the door is always open to the back patio, where the cocooning space has a
place to stretch out and read a book. “It’s a perfect place to have a rest
after walking home from work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> Since moving to
Hamilton, Gaffney has been ticking off some bucket list items. She joined Steel
City Stories and told her first story in front of an audience. It was unscripted and about her house.
“I loved it, it’s a young passionate group and it was a buzz, to make people
laugh.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> So the streamlined
life in Strathcona is a success for a woman who believes less is more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> “I’ve always been
fascinated with small house architecture. I want to live lighter on the
planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"> It’s possession
deficit disorder in the best possible way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt;"> When
people walk into T</span><span style="font-size: 22pt;">he Rustic Rose they can’t get enough of the barn lanterns,
weathered wood mallets, and peculiar tools.</span><span style="font-size: 22pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 22pt;">“Stuff that comes out of the barn or shop, that’s what’s
trendy now,” says Eileen Breukelman owner of the cottage nostalgia and décor
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eileen and her husband Jeff opened The
Rustic Rose five years ago, just as the Beach was entering a new residential
growth spurt with high priced homes and condos. They bought the building at 538
Beach Boulevard because “the price was right” but were convinced they could
never lose on a place so close to the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nautical nostalgia was the first focus at
the store with old wooden buoys and vintage life preservers snapped up by customers
living on the Beach. As the collection grew, the couple kept their focus tight
and the store curated with a specific vision. Beautiful old tools, vintage Le
Creuset cookware, wooden butter and cheese boxes, fishing reels and cheerful
picnic ware speak of a simpler time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What’s striking about so many of the pieces is the colour, the oranges,
blues, and sunflower yellow found on bicycles, tool handles, and old toys. “If
people buy wood pieces I tell them not to refinish or paint, leave the original
colour,” Jeff says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a month to see what’s new, and more are coming from Toronto, “Many of our
pieces are perfect for a condo, the patina of the wood, the colour, it warms up
modern, industrial style spaces,” Eileen says. She points to a tin rocking
horse sitting high on a shelf, “If you had the room, that would be perfect in
an entrance way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new finds for their store, they consider it a holiday. Heading out in their
truck, maybe with one of their seven children along for the trip, they search
all over Ontario and in to the States for treasures. At auctions, antique
malls, and outdoor markets Jeff says they “</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt;">can see past</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt;"> the </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt;">dirt for a potential nostalgic "wow" piece.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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People use them as a place to hang quilts or display other accessories.
Multi-pane antique windows are in demand too she says, “We have customers who
use them as frames for family photos.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If pieces need repair, Jeff does the work, fitting it in around his full
time business Jef-Re Construction Services specializing in foundation repair
and industrial flooring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>You won’t find fussy china, or fine furniture at The Rustic Rose but you
will find crates of old license plates. Vintage car owners like to find ones
that match the year of their vehicle. Beautiful metal chocolate molds become a
work of art on the wall, and duck decoys never go out of style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eileen likes to see what her customers
do with the pieces when they get them home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People post great ideas to our Facebook page.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the time Eileen is looking for new vintage pieces, raising kids or making
handcrafted roses from apples. “That’s how it started, I was looking for studio
space to make the roses, and then we started displaying vintage pieces when we
ran out of room in our house.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">by Kathy Renwald</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Published in the Hamilton Spectator </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">September 1, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> During this steamy, sweaty summer we all look for a place where we won’t get fried. It could be a pool, the lake or a park. The lucky people in the Kirkendall Neighborhood have the HAAA Grounds. The sporting history is deep at the Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds, home of the old Hamilton Tigers, the site of seven Grey Cup Games, and base for the Hamilton Hurricanes football team for over 30 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Beyond the hurtling bodies, the HAAA grounds is a park, and many would say one of the best maintained in the city. It’s a public park with a personal touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Drive or walk along Charlton Avenue West and beautiful flowerbeds weave underneath groves of Austrian pines. Begonias, daylilies, ferns and hostas nestle in soil as dark as coffee grounds. You can tell this garden is loved. Even driving by at the posted speed limit it’s obvious these beds are edged by a master. The line is sharp, the soil slants at what seems like an impossible angle, and weeds are forbidden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For several years I’ve made feeble attempts to find the gardener at the HAAA Grounds, but I searched too late in the day. The gardener, I was told, starts work at 6 a.m. So one sultry morning at 8 a.m. I knock on the door of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the pretty, brick HAAA building and meet Frank Liberatore. I barely have time to introduce myself and say how much I admire the gardens before he grabs a spade. “Let me show you how to edge,” he says</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span lang="IT">Liberatore</span> has been in charge at HAA for 11 years, and with the City of Hamilton for 36, “I rolled out the sod at Pier 4 Park by hand, he says, remembering the start of the West Harbour development. The HAAA Grounds has a running track, kids play area, and the field for soccer and football, with the intense activity it’s impressive that the gardens are so pristine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “It was never like this before Frank came here,” Arlene Laframboise says as she strolls through the park with her Basset Hound. Liberatore has popped inside to get treats for her dog. “He so nice to the dogs, and the park is immaculate. If you see litter or broken glass at night, by 7 a.m. it’s gone, we’re so lucky to have him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Each spring <span lang="IT">Liberatore</span> starts the season by putting 10 inches of new loam on top of the flowerbeds. It’s a necessity since the trees suck up so much of the soil and moisture. He cleans up the left over perennials, cultivates and waits for the annuals to arrive from the city greenhouse, before planting about May 24th. Through the summer the watering, weeding, cultivating, sports field maintenance and general cleanup continues. “I can cultivate and weed all the beds in about two-and-a-half hours,” he says. Though he has help from summer students, I could speculate that at age 66 he is working faster than most. “I still play soccer, but it’s in an old guy’s league.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Sitting on a bench in the shade of a locust tree is the best way to appreciate the HAAA Grounds. Kids laughter bubbles up from the playground, pleasant thunks drift over from the Hamilton Tennis Club, and dogs scuffle by hoping to see <span lang="IT">Liberatore</span> with an outstretched hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I love my job,” he says looking out over the begonias in their fluffy beds and the Trillium Award he won last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In late fall he’ll leave HAAA for winter work, clearing snow at city hall, and shoveling it off the mountain access stairs, doing the physical work he enjoys. Then in February he’ll return with his meticulous ways to the park he loves where his two and four-legged fans wait for signs of spring.<span class="HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"></span></span></span></div>
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Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-28720316837721878132015-10-01T11:05:00.001-04:002015-10-01T11:06:01.641-04:00A garden for all seasons<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zNI-V-XTetk" width="480"></iframe>Kathy Renwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13838006854206083412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399461213761530043.post-73610414353286547352015-10-01T11:00:00.004-04:002015-10-01T11:03:02.518-04:00From Flowers to Foliage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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back,” says Stephen Kostyshyn. It was 1997 and he and his wife Claire Kostyshyn
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when perennials were hot, and the couple planted drifts of them in their small
East end garden. Then the romance faded, the perennials needed dividing, and
fertilizing and they didn’t have much appeal in the winter.</div>
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bought that statue Jing, and Claire decided he didn’t like being beside the
tomatoes,” Kostyshyn says.</div>
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the tomatoes, in came Japanese maples, unusual evergreens and conifers, paths
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special bed, he peers out over a planting of Japanese blood grass, daphne is in
bloom at his back and a collection of stone cradles a tiny hens and chicks
plant called Cobweb.</div>
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the new design, where special plants have space to breath. Scotch moss and the
felty-leaved Geranium renardii form little islands of green in Jing’s bed, and
a lovely dwarf Dawn redwood called North Light waves its soft yellow leaves in
the slightest wind. Since the crowded perennials have gone, so have the snails
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the Kostyshyn’s garden is like going on a treasure hunt. You must move slowly
and be alert for little gems, like Tom Thumb oriental spruce. Packed tight with
gold-brushed needles it will not grow much taller than your ankle in ten years.<br />
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always loved evergreens but I never had a real source for them until I met a
couple of people from ORGS,” Stephen says. ORGS is the Ontario Rock Garden
Society (onrockgarden.com) and once you fall under their spell you might find
yourself trekking through the Czech Republic searching for puny pines.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now Claire and Stephen will pack their lunch and go
on safari to Vineland Nurseries (vinelandnurseries.com), Lost Horizons
(losthorizons.ca) in Acton or Whistling Gardens (whistlinggardens.ca) in
Wilsonville, south of Brantford, to find the rare and the unusual.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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twisted beauty called </span>Snow-in-Valley Japanese white pine swirls with the
energy of a fireworks display, another Japanese white pine called Gin Setsu
drapes over a stone lantern, and the pretty Ogon yellow-needled Japanese white
pine has a graceful, slender form perfectly suited for a small garden.<br />
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rarely lose a specimen. They have good soil, built up over the years with
compost, and fertilize only when needed.</div>
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vibrant evergreens and conifers like the Golden Glow Korean fir, you can find
flowers, but of course they are special too. A bright yellow alstroemeria called
Sweet Laura blooms year after year. Most people know this plant also called
Peruvian lily as a cut flower, but Sweet Laura is hardy. In a corner of the
garden, in front of the bamboo fencing that screens the yard, the tiny flowers
of Formosa toad-lily lean against a dwarf bald cypress to catch the sun.</div>
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cobbled together bee boxes they hope will become home to native bees. The
production line took up every flat surface in the Environment Hamilton offices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We can’t keep
up with the demand,” says Jen Baker with the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club. The
club, along with Environment Hamilton, and the Hamilton Community Foundation is
offering the bee box building workshops, as part of the Pollinators Paradise
Project (hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org). Every time they offer a class, it
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pushing them into the small bee box. Though she has a good population of bees
on her property, she liked the idea of doing more. “I’m interested in doing
anything I can to attract bees and butterflies to my garden.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the people at the workshop had
noticed a sad decline in all types of bees in their gardens. Loss of habitat is
an obvious reason for reduced bee populations, and bee keepers are convinced, the
use of chemical herbicides and pesticides particularly systemic ones have
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">The bee boxes
are designed to attract our native solitary bees. Solitary bees lead a solitary
life, do not make honey, and don’t swarm or tend to sting. What they do that’s
so vital is pollinate flowering plants. If you like to eat, then fostering a
healthy bee population is essential. We all know the bumble bees and the honey
bee, but the native solitary bees often do their work unseen and unnoticed. A
third of Ontario native bees, including carpenter bees, mason bees, and
leaf-cutter bees nest in wood, including hollow stems.</span></span></div>
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just about finished with his bee box. The former Hamilton Fincup says he has
always had an interest in the outdoors, “I’d like to see more bees than wasps
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do best when placed in an east facing location, the morning sun helps warm the
bees up for flight. The hollow stems from plants such as teasel, reeds,
grasses, and Queen Anne’s lace should be packed tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the bees do lay eggs they will block
the end of the tube-a sign of success. Then it’s important the garden is home
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builders were told by Stefan Weber, “Native bees need native plants.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weber of St. Williams Nursery and
Ecology Centre (stwilliamsnursery.com) suggested a variety of plants from
serviceberry trees, to fall witch hazel, hepatica, lupins and evening primrose,
to provide, food, cover and nesting material for native bees. St. Williams will
be part of an Earth Day Native Plant Sale April 18<sup>th</sup> at the Royal
Botanical Gardens Parking lot on Plains Road Burlington. It’s just one of
several more events planned by the Pollinators Paradise Project.</span></div>
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