We I was small we would visit my grandmother(my father’s mother) in Williams Lake which was closer than my other grand parents. She came from Scotland and had an accent any many things from her family at her home. She also special scented soaps and that scent I now always associate with her. The soap [...]
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The Scent of My Grandmothers House
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, evergreen, groundcovers, Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, Perennials, tagged aromatic flowers, aromatic foliage, Blue flowers, fragrant flowers, fragrant plants, Government House, Hidcote Lavender, Hidcote Manor, July blooming, July flowers, June blooming, June flowers, lavandula angustifolia, Lavender, lavender flowers, Lavendula angustifolia, Lavendula angustifolia 'Hidcote', Lawrence Johnson, Mauve Flowers, purple flowers on July 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Different Kind Of Easter Treat For The Child In You.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, Beacon Hill Park, Blue flowers, Drumstick Primulas, Finnerty Gardens, fragrant flowers, Government House, March blooming, Mauve Flowers, May Blooming Flowers, Primula denticulata, Primula denticulata 'Alba', purple flowers, U.B.C. Botanical Garden, white flowers, winter interest on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the time of year when many things are being renewed and many thing are being learned. College and university classes are near the end and are graduating, people are moving to new places and jobs and the gardens everywhere are waking up. People new to gardening are digging their gardens maybe for the [...]
Reticulate This!
Posted in Bulbs, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, tagged Blue flowers, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant flowers, fragrant winter blooming, Iris "George', Iris 'Katherine Hodgkin', Iris danfordiae, Iris histrioides, Iris reticulata, Iris reticulata "Alida', Iris reticulata 'George', Iris winogradowii, March blooming, March flowers, purple flowers, Reticulated Iris, white flowers, winter flowers, yellow flowers on March 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
When I went to work for a large wholesale perennial grower I was surprised by the diversity of material that was sold. They wanted to extend their sales season by selling not only perennials but include other related plant material such as Heather, herbs, small shrubs and in the earliest spring small bulb which you [...]
Colors Found in Dutch Crocus Painting.
Posted in Bulbs, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Specimens, tagged Beacon Hill Park, Blue crocus, Blue flowers, Cream crocus, Crocus, Crocus 'Pickwick', Crocus biflorus, Crocus chrysanthus, Crocus vernus, Dutch Crocus, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant flowers, Gold Crocus, Government House, groundcovers, January flowering plants, March blooming, Mauve Flowers, purple Crocus, purple flowers, Saffron Crocus, Spring blooming Crocus, striped Crocus flowers, striped flowers, white Crocus, white flowers, winter blooming, winter flowering, winter flowers, Yellow Crocus, yellow flowers on February 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As I look out my window today I remember what it was like at this time of year; it is the middle of February and still the snow is falling and the piles of it are getting higher and higher. Back then any sunny day would make me anxious for spring to come with the [...]
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 [...]
Climbing and Vining with the Jackman Family.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Climbing/Vining Plants, Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Historic Plants, Specimens, tagged August blooming, Blue flowers, Clematis 'Gipsy Queen', Clematis 'Perle d Azur', Clematis x jackmanii, Clematis x Jackmanii 'Alba', Clematis x jackmanii 'Superba', Jackman and Sons Nursery, Jackman Clematis, July blooming, June blooming, Mauve Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, red flowers, white flowers on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I do not know when I first met this plant as I feel like I have known it all my life. Where I grew up it is on the coldest edge of its temperature tolerance. I know I have seen it many places here in it’s many forms and colors. I think i like the very first [...]
Lacecap or Mophead, I Can’t Make Up My Mind!
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Cut Flowers., Historic Plants, Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged Bigleaf Hydrangea, Blue flowers, Finnerty Gardens, Government House, Hortensia Hydrangea, Hydrangea "Prezioza', Hydrangea ' Endless Summer', Hydrangea 'Blushing Bride', Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangea macrophylla f. normalis, Hydrangea macrophylla var. serrata, Hydrangea macrophylla. var.serrata 'Preziosa', Hydrangea serrata, Hydrangeas, Lacecap Hydrangeas, Mauve Flowers, Mophead Hydrangeas, pink flowers, purple flowers, red flowers, white flowers, winter interest on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are many plants that seem almost mythical when you grow up in a very cold climate. Some plants are spices you want to grow like Ginger while others have fantastic forms or leaves like Caladiums and some have intense or unusual colors like sky blue flowers. One plant which definately seemed to be a unreal to [...]
Sensationally Scented Syringas.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, Trees, tagged April blooming flowers, Blue flowers, Common Lilac, fragrant flowers, Mauve Flowers, May Blooming Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, Syringa 'Charles Joly', Syringa 'Katherine Havemeyer', Syringa 'Sensation', Syringa Mme. Antoine. Buchner, Syringa vulgaris, Syringa vulgaris f.(forma) alba, white flowers, yellow flowers on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I think of growing up in Prince George many things come to mind; the happy days spent hiking on the trails near our house in the city, collecting wild berries during the summer and fall, and the large lilac hedge which we would pick branches to bring to our mom. Every year at this time [...]
Glory But No Snow I Hope.
Posted in Bulbs, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, tagged Blue flowers, chiondoxa 'pink giant', chiondoxa forbesii, Chiondoxa forbesii var alba, chiondoxa lucilliae, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant flowers, Glory in the Snow, March blooming, North Saanich, pink flowers, white flowers, winter blooming, winter interest on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in the north, at this time of the year winter was long in the tooth… we were all tired of it. We desperately looked forward to any warm days when the snow would melt and maybe a patch of green would show through the dirty snow. My mother had planted some tiny bulbs [...]
A Steely Stalwart of the Late Summer Garden.
Posted in Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged August Blooming Flowers, Blue flowers, dried flowers, Echinops, Echinops bannaticus, Echinops exaltatus, Echinops humilis, Echinops sphaerocephalus, Ecninops ritro, Finnerty Gardens, fragrant flowers, Glendale Gardens, Government House, Grey leaves, Mauve Flowers, Ornamental foliage, Silvery leaves, white flowers on August 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When I write one of these articles I first do some research. I might think I know a plant quite well but I always learn some more in the process of looking in various places. I need to make sure of the botanical name, where it comes from and if possible I like to know [...]
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