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Dear Helen: Why does the fragrance in some flowers seem to turn on and off? Examples are roses, sweet violets, daphnes and petunias that are powerfully scented only at certain times over the bloom season. R.M.

Dear Debbie: I inherited a few pieces of furniture from my aunt鈥檚 mid-century modern collection when she drastically downsized to a tiny apartment.

Dear Helen: My cauliflower plants grew well and I鈥檇 harvested one head by mid-month, but the head on one plant turned purplish. Does this colouring render the cauliflower harmful to eat? H.L. That鈥檚 been a common issue this year.

Dear Tony: We purchased two older units next to each other in September of last year with the intention of combining them into one larger unit for our family.

As I was working in the front garden recently, people passing by stopped to ask about flowers blooming on the boulevard.

In an era when bungalows and ranchers are constantly being razed and monster mansions springing up in their stead, an Uplands couple decided to move in a different direction.

Are you feeling wild today? Want to take a peek into homes where plants rule? It鈥檚 a mindset that Hilton Carter, passionate lover of all things green and author of Wild Interiors, Beautiful Plants in Beautiful Spaces, CICO Books 2020, explores and pr

Dear Helen: Can you tell me what this blue flower is? It has self-sown in my garden. S.W. Your 鈥渧olunteer鈥� plant is Nicandra physalodes, commonly known as shoo-fly plant but also called 鈥淎pple of Peru.

Dear Tony: We recently purchased a聽condo in a Fraser Valley community the first week of June.

When I鈥檓 in the garden, the poem Leisure, by W.H.