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I Like My Iris Grape Scented and Variegated Please.

Posted in Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged American Iris Society, attractive foliage, Cut Flowers., cut foliage, fragrant flowers, Government House, grape scented flowers, grape scented Iris, I.p. 'Variegata', I.p. Argentea Variegata, Iris pallida, Iris pallida 'Argentea Variegata', lavender flowers, Mauve Flowers, May Blooming Flowers, purple flowers, purple Iris, variegated Iris, Variegated Leaves, Variegated Sweet Iris on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This week the America Iris Society is having its national convention here in Victoria. All the important public gardens have been prepared in the last year for the event by planting out beds of many species, hybrids and cultivars in them. With the cooler than normal spring that has effected this area of the continent [...]

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Seducing You With Scent on Grey Days.

Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, autumn color, Beacon Hill Park, colorful foliage, Doiscorides, Finnerty Gardens, fragrant flowers, Glendale Gardens, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, May Blooming Flowers, Playfair Park, Pontic Azalea, Rhododendron luteum, Xenophon, yellow flowering shrubs, yellow flowers on May 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »

2 days of bright sun light and everyone is out mowing their lawns, the garden centers a full of shoppers buying plants, then back into the grey. It has been grey and dreary almost everyday this year! It is not surprising at all that we rush out into the rare spots of sun and then [...]

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A Hosta Imposter and Other Relatives.

Posted in colorful berries, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, native plants, North American Plants, Perennials, Specimens, West Coast native Plants, tagged April blooming flowers, colorful berries, cream flowers, Dominion Brook Park, Finnerty Gardens, fragrant flowers, groundcovers, Maianthemum canadense, Maianthemum dilatatum, Maianthemum racemosum, Maianthemum stellatum, May Blooming Flowers, Playfair Park, Smilacina, Smilacina racemosum, West Coast native Plants, white flowers, Wild Lily of the Valley on May 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

When I moved to go to school I soon missed the outdoors in the way I had experienced it during my life. I was no longer able step outside and wander in the woods within a few steps of the home I had lived in. It was not until I moved to the island I [...]

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Tellimas and Other Anagrams

Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, evergreen, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, native plants, North American Plants, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, West Coast native Plants, tagged April blooming flowers, Beacon Hill Park, British Columbia, burgundy flowers, cream flowers, Cut Flowers., evergreen, evergreen foliage, February flowers, fragrant flowers, Fringe Cups, Glendale Gardens, Government House, Green flowers, groundcovers, maroon foliage, Mass Plantings, May Blooming Flowers, native plants, Norht American Plants, Perennials, Tellima grandiflora, West Coast native Plants, white flowers, winter interest, Woodland plants on May 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

When I was going to for Horticultural training the thing I missed the most was walking in the woods like I could do at Home. I had come from a rural area to a verge large city to go to school and going for a walk was a way to relieve tension from my studies. [...]

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Dicentra Disbanded, Welcome Lamprocapnos spectabilis.

Posted in Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, Perennials, tagged April blooming flowers, attractive foliage, Attractive leaves, Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis, Dielytra, fragrant flowers, Friedrich Gottlieb Dietrich, Fumaria, June blooming, Lamprocapnos spectabilis, Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Alba', Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Gold Heart', Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Valentine', March blooming, May Blooming Flowers, Perennials, pink flowers, red flowers, Robert Fortune, white flowers on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We I was very small going even a few house from home was a big adventure, I never knew what I would come across. I would walk up the lane with the big fences, past the garage at the corner and the decide which direction to turn. I would walk to the next block and [...]

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