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Condo Smarts: Strata鈥檚 DIY services come with insurance risks

Condo Smarts: Strata鈥檚 DIY services come with insurance risks

New council refuses to respond to owner directions
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Naughtiness produces garden-based dessert

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Naughtiness produces garden-based dessert

I pulled my last batch of stalks from the rhubarb plants to make the final rhubarb cake of the season
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: What causes less-sweet raspberries

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: What causes less-sweet raspberries

Best to pick the fruit when it is in full colour and comes off the canes with a light touch
Condo Smarts: Strata corporation cannot force owner to provide key for access

Condo Smarts: Strata corporation cannot force owner to provide key for access

Standard bylaws of Strata Property Act make provision both for emergency access and routine access with notice for the purpose of inspections and servicing
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Daisies become more impressive each year

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Daisies become more impressive each year

Shasta daisies have arranged themselves in a long, broad arc around a tall red huckleberry shrub
Helen Chesnut: Some zinnias change colour as blooms age, weather changes

Helen Chesnut: Some zinnias change colour as blooms age, weather changes

If first bloom is different than colour you expected, wait to see how the flower develops over the season
Condo Smarts: Strata obligated to provide Form F

Condo Smarts: Strata obligated to provide Form F

The Form F Payment Certificate is required for a sale or transaction of a strata lot
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Hybrid Musk roses carry impressive sprays of bloom

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Hybrid Musk roses carry impressive sprays of bloom

A curved edging of Provence lavender, once again this year, has surprised me.
House Beautiful: Long wait for dream home come true

House Beautiful: Long wait for dream home come true

Stop-and-start project, including COVID-caused interruptions, culminated in stunning, two-storey modern house on 14,000-square-foot forested lot with room for family of four and their chickens
Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Unusually large foxglove flower a beautiful surprise

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Unusually large foxglove flower a beautiful surprise

The interesting foxglove aberration is called 鈥減eloria鈥 from a Greek word meaning 鈥渕onstrous.鈥