Mason Bees showed up in march 2005, five months after we finished our West Coast style timber frame house. The recycled douglas fir timber posts seemed just the perfect place for Mason Bees to build their house in our house. These 12″ x 12″ timber posts form part of the house structure and were bolted [...]
Today – Dec 4 – 2011. It’s like a Bird mini invasion at Royston House BB. Looking our our oceanside windows we see several Northern Flickers and Varied Thrush flitting back and forth between red-osier dogwood trees eating their delicious berries. Junkos and Towhees are working the ground, stirring up the leaves and scuffing around [...]
Frost in the morning with snow and skiing on Mt Washington in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. The weather over the past few weeks has been ideal for Blueberry bed prep work. We have been removing wild grasses and weeds between our Blueberry rows and then moving soil from these valleys onto the Blueberry [...]
With all the talk this fall about giant force fed pumpkins we felt our naturally grown big ‘King’ apple was worthy of attention. The 3 King apple trees at Royston House BB were planted around 90 years ago as part of the Hilton Manor estate in Royston by the sea, British Columbia. One of our [...]