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Forest Fireworks.

Posted in Quiz, Uncategorized on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am a fuzzy spike which is like a wand in the dark, but my fame comes from the scent of my leaves which I am named after. I come in several parts, each one being separate. I like it dappled and burn in the sun.

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The Exquisite Woodland Resident

Posted in Shrub/Tree, Specimens, Trees, tagged Beacon Hill Park, colorful fruit, fragrant flowers, gardening, June blooming plants, Long Blooming shrubs, Long blooming trees, Magnolia sieboldii, Magnolias, May blooming, May blooming trees, Oyama Magnolia, Park & Tilford Garden, plants, shade tolerant plants, Siebolds' Magnolia, small trees, Victoria, white flowers on May 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The first gardening job I had was working for the summer at Park and Tilford Gardens in North Vancouver. II was lucky as it was like an 4 month extension of education for me. Park And Tilford Gardens was at one time a well know distiller of the same name which was sold and turned [...]

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Purity With a Dagger Eye.

Posted in Quiz, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, Trees, tagged Magnolia sieboldii, Magnolias on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You wonder what my Dagger Eye is, wonder no more. I am a showy one and the best part is the innermost part. Here I am again, a little late today. I am clear and pure, and even smell that way I think. My lines are uninterrupted from top to bottom.

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Delicate Yet, So Dangerous.

Posted in Climbing/Vining Plants, tagged Anemone Clematis, Clematis, Clematis montana, Clematis montana Broughton Star, Clematis montana f. grandiflora, Clematis montana Mayleen, Clematis montana rubens, Clematis montana Tetrarose, fragrant flowers, fragrant plants, May blooming climbing plants, May blooming vines, Montana Clematis, pink flowers, pink fragrant flowers, pink vining plant, white flowers, white fragrant flowers, white vining plants on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

At this time of year we are often overwhelmed by what is going on in the garden. Things are bursting with color, while others are unfurling delicately. All of a sudden the fence which we drove past for the last year is covered with blooms again, what can it be the climbs 30ft into that [...]

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Introducing…..

Posted in Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged aromatic leaves, Blue flowers, cooking, frangrant flowers, herbs, pink flowers, Rosemary, Rosmarinus offincinalis, white flowers on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Announcing….. A Brand New Page ….. Check my tabs for a surprise……..If you are lost ………GO HERE http://namethatplant.wordpress.com/the-garden-palatte/

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Ephemeral and Diaphorous.

Posted in Shrub/Tree, Specimens, Trees, tagged April blooming flowers, Augustine's Rhododendron, Blue flowers, Cox's Form Rhododendron, Finnerty Gardens, Glendale Gardens, May Blooming Flowers, Playfair Park, Rhododendron augustinii, Rhododendron augustinii Cox's Form, Rhododendron augustinii Electra, Rhododendron augustinii ssp. chasmanthum, Rhododendron augustinii ssp. hardyii, Rhododendron augustinii St. Breward, Rhododendron St. Breward, Saanich, Victoria on May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »

When I moved from the northern B.C. To Vancouver to go to school one plant which I did not have any experience with was Rhododendrons. Most of the time I have lived on the coast I have ignored them as they are a flourish of color in the spring and then just somewhat shapeless evergreen [...]

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Storm Shadows.

Posted in Quiz on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This is the green unfurling in the spring, and I can be a bit sticky about it. There are many forms of me here, but I am special amongst this tribe. I am considered to be an early to mid season bloomer. And bloom I do, in really stormy colors which are unique to me [...]

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The Purest of Blues.

Posted in Bulbs, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, native plants, tagged Beacon Hill Park, Blue Flowering Bulbs, Blue flowers, British Columbia, Camassia quamash, Common Camas, David Douglas, Dodecatheon hendersonii, Early spring flowers, Garry Oak Ecosystems, Garry Oak Meadows, Government House, Government House Woodlands, May Blooming Flowers, Native Food Plants, native plants, Playfair Park, Shooting stars, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Victoria Blue Flowers on May 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »

When I moved to the Victoria area I had heard about the wonderful climate, the slower pace and the stunning Garry Oaks. Naturally I was curious about everything, but it being the end of October when I arrived I had to wait to see what the spring would bring. I saw the Garry Oaks and [...]

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