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Dear Tony: We are very confused about who is responsible for repairing a strata lot when there is a minor leak causing damage.

Younger consumers usurping baby boomers in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s slumping vacation property market

Dear Helen: What distinguishes endive from escarole, and chicory from endive? I’m confused. S.L. You’re confused because the names are often used interchangeably.

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation is made up of 78 apartments and 16 townhouse units. We are all one strata corporation.

Look up, way up, into the trees. Welcome to the forest home of the Floral Giant. I almost missed the patches of pink flowers dotting the neighbours’ towering cedar and fir forest.

Carolyn and Denis McDonald love the tropics, so it’s small wonder that the home they built near Cherry Point resembles a beachside bungalow on a tropical island. At least, that’s the view from the front.

Dear Helen: In an earlier spring column, you wrote about hardy fuchsias taking a hit during the harsh late winter weather this year. Mine survived, but their growth has been much delayed compared with other years.

Dear Tony: The parking garage under our strata complex has been leaking for several years and our owners continue to defeat the resolutions to approve the necessary repairs. A three-quarters vote is impossible to pass.

I wonder whether it’s still there — the heart-shaped rose garden at the Tattersall Drive home of my childhood and early teen years. The front lawn around the rose garden was a favourite place for playing.

Dear Helen: My two apple trees are loaded with fruit. Should I thin the clusters? D.B. Wait until the tree sheds inferior and excess fruit naturally in what is called the “June drop.