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Dear Helen: I鈥檝e been looking for Scotch marigold seeds. Can you help? D.R. You won鈥檛 find 鈥淪cotch marigold鈥� in seed catalogues or on seed packets, because it鈥檚 one of the names sometimes given to calendula (ka-LEN-dew-la).

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation is a mid-rise apartment building of 12 floors constructed in 2002. I live on the fourth floor and since August, I have had chronic issues with soap suds in my kitchen sink and slow drainage in my tub.

Dear Reena: Can you please tell me your recipe for getting Gorilla Glue off carpet? I always enjoy hearing you on the radio. Illa Gorilla Glue is extremely difficult to remove from carpet.

It鈥檚 with two minds that I approach the 鈥渉oliday鈥� season. There is pleasure in familiar rituals, such as stringing lights on the sprawling strawberry tree by the front door and cutting fir, cedar and sweet bay boughs to place on windowsills.

We are surrounded by doors, doors that lead us outside to meet the day, doors that welcome us home at night. Doors separate the known from the unknown, the private from the public.

Yuletide magic abounds in this 700-square-foot Oak Bay space, whose owners love holiday traditions

Dear Helen: In the past few years, some of my hardneck garlic has failed to divide into cloves. Instead, most plants have produced one round, solid bulb 鈥�- large and flavourful but not useful for saving and replanting.

Dear Tony: We are a mid-sized condo building in Penticton and having a tough time getting people to sit on council.

Dear Reena: I have a screen door and between the panes, I cannot get anything but liquid, as it so narrow. I cannot remove the inner pane. What can I pour in there that would clean the inside glass? It looks terrible.

My annual late-autumn compulsion to acquire a lively new plant for the kitchen windowsill coincided perfectly last month with an enticing collection of succulents at my local farmers鈥� market.