Local Vancouver Interior Designers

Well the IDS West Show is underway with a terrific opening party last night to kick off the design led weekend.

I am featuring my light box and garden art in the Designers On The Block section of the show with a whole gang of other fabulous independant designers and artisans.

This year's BC Home & Garden Show on Feb 20-24th, 2008 will have an Urban Deck Display that will feature four Garden Designer's solutions to optimise a small space to create an urban oasis.

I am watching the warm light of the setting sun fade from the snow capped mountains to the east. One minute ago it was a warm glow and now it has dissappeared to a cold blue/white.

This year's Vancouver Sun Garden Show, formerly known as the Vandusen Garden Show was greatly anticipated as last year's show was cancelled. I had never exhibited at this show before but had attended 2 years ago when the show organisers took the focus back to gardening and created a great show in 2005. The garden loving public had very strong opinions about the show so I recieved mixed reactions when I spoke of my involvement. My curiosity grew as the event date approached and I was very optimistic that this show would be great.

This year's DV Interior Design & Urban Living Expo May 4-6, 2007 brought the best local and international, design led firms together for a show based on the exploration of "The Stories Behind Design". I was able to tell my developing story with Outside Contemporary Garden Design as I was invited to participate in the Designers On The Block Section of the show. Our space was designed by Peter Chen of Casika Modern who created 2 wheel structures giving us each a pie shaped wedge within the widely spaced spokes to set up our booths for the May show.

What strange stormy weather we have been having lately. I'm getting reports everyday of wind damaged trees and climbers and many container grown shrubs are getting knocked out of their planters. As the stormy season is not yet past us remember to keep your planters that are undercover watered to add weight and stability to them or move them off of elvated areas where they are likely to fall and break in the gusting winds.

Locally harvested fruit can come in exotic forms for us lucky Vancouverites. I came home today from the Cottonwood Community Garden with a bag full of Kiwis and Persimmons that had been grown onsite. The Japanese Persimmons look like beautiful orange lanterns and reveal a rich, sweet flavour when bitten.

Officially Autumn is upon us and I must say it is absolutely gorgeous! The maples have concentrated all their sugars in the long hours of summer sun and are treating us to a spectacular array of crimson tones -colour's not normally seen here on the West Coast. Grasses are waving tall and proud in the wind displaying their seed heads to glow in the low sunlight.

Summer weather has well and truly arrived and we can enjoy the developing annual flowers that have been recently planted as well as our late spring/early summer flowering shrubs.