I was listening to the local radio yesterday as I went about my business about town, they were interviewing a local vegetable grower who said crops are 5 to 6 weeks behind where they normally are at this time of year. I knew the season was behind although it seems to me that plants catch [...]
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Silver, Gold and Moonshine All in One Plant.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, Specimens, tagged Achillea 'Moonshine', Alan Bloom, August blooming, August flowers, Blooms of Bressingham, Brentwood Bay, Bressingham Gardens, fragrant flowers, Government House, grey foliage, Grey leaves, July blooming, July flowers, June blooming, June flowers, May Blooming Flowers, Moonshine Achillea, Moonshine Yarrow, silver foliage, siver leaves, sulphur flowers, yellow flowers on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This time of the year usually is warmer and the Roses would be in full bloom, I guess I will have to wait a bit more. In the meantime I am reminded that there are so many other plants which are now stealing the show and some of them do it in a way which [...]
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. [...]
The Beautiful Beast.
Posted in Colorful foliage, Drought Tolerant, evergreen, groundcovers, Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, charteuse flowers, Creeping Spurge, Donkey Spurge, Euphorbia, Euphorbia myrsinites, evergreen foliage, February blooming, February flowers, Glendale Gardens, Government House, grey foliage, groundcovers, March blooming, March flowers, Myrtle Spurge, seagreen foliage, sprawling plants, trailing plants, winter flowers, winter interest, yellow flowers on March 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Many plants become famous for things other than their flowers. The form and structure of a plant influences how it is used in a garden. The overall color and texture of a plant contributes much to a plants use. Some plants remind people of other things and their name reflects that. Euphorbia species cover all [...]
Now A Completely Different Type of Plant – Moss.
Posted in evergreen, groundcovers, Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, native plants, North American Plants, Ocean exposure Tolerant, West Coast native Plants, tagged all season interest., Dichodontium pellucidum, Dicranum tauricum, Fragile Fork Moss, Government House, green plants, groundcovers, Kindbergia oregona, Lichen, minature plants., moss, mosses, Oregon Beaked Moss, Pixie Lichen, Playfair Park, small plants, Sphagnum, tiny plants, West Coast native Plants, Wet Rock Moss, winter interest on January 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The are a few types of plants which can be found just about anywhere on earth. Some are grasses others are very successful annuals which have short life cycles and survive even in hostile climate even if it is for a short while. Others are extremely ancient and where some of the first types of [...]
Flowers So Beautiful You Could Wear Them as Earrings.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, colorful berries, Cut Flowers., evergreen, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged Blue flowers, Finnerty Gardens, Fuchsia magellainca var. molinae 'Sharpitor', Fuchsia magellainca var.gracilis, Fuchsia magellainca var.gracilis 'Aurea', Fuchsia magellanica, Fuchsia magellanica 'gracilis', Fuchsia magellanica 'Miss Popple', Fuchsia magellanica 'Versicolor', Fuchsia magellanica var. molinae, Fuchsia magellanica var. molinae (Alba), Glendale Garden, Government House, Hardy Fuchsia, Ladys Ear Drops, Mauve Flowers, Milner Gardens, pink flowers, purple flowers, red flowers, white flowers, winter flowering on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This September has been extraordinarily wet, in fact we have set a record for the most rain for this month every and still almost week to go. Most plants are loving it as the long summer drought is over early and this is guaranteed to save some of their lives. Some plants think it is [...]
Heavenly in the Garden.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, colorful berries, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, evergreen, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged August blooming, broadleaved evergreen, Carl Peter Thunberg, colorful berries, evergreen, Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina domestica, Nandina domestica 'Nana Purpurea', Nandina domestica 'Plum Passion', Playfair Park, red berries, Sacred Bamboo, September blooming, white flowers, winter interest on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back to school, those are dreaded words for some, a relief for others and the beginning of a new chapter in life for many more. I must admit I did not like grade school. It was not until later when I had a break from the grind of it, had more perspective and experience in [...]
The Southern Treasures of the Plant Kingdom.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, evergreen, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, Trees, tagged August blooming, Beacon Hill Park, cream blooming flowers, cream flowers, Dominion Brook Park, early autumn blooming, Eucryphia, Eucryphia cordifolia, Eucryphia lucida, Eucryphia x intermedia 'Rostrevor', Eucryphia x nymanensis, Eucryphia x nymanensis 'Nymansay', Finnerty Gardens, frangrant flowers, Government House, late summer blooming, Milner Gardens, North Saanich, September blooming, white flowers on September 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since I have moved this year I do not have the chance to visit some gardens as much as I used to, this week I went and investigate a few of my favorites. I went to check the plants in them and see if anything had changed, as you know gardens are always a work [...]
Joy in the Late Summer Garden
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Perennials, Specimens, tagged 'Autumn Joy' Sedum, August Blooming Flowers, Autum Joy Sedum, Hylotelephium, Hylotelephium spectabile, Hylotelephium telephium, July Blooming Flowers, Maroon flowers, October blooming flowers, Perennials, pink flowers, red flowers, Sedum spectabile, Sedum telephium, sedum x 'Herbstfreude', September blooming flowers, Showy Stonecrop, Winter color in the garden on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are in the last week of August, many of us and our children are getting ready to go back to school. The garden often is neglect now because we are busy with othr things occupying our time. late summer is a time of changing palettes in the garden, from the spring and early summer colors [...]
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