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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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 »
Oregons ‘Grape’
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, colorful berries, Colorful foliage, evergreen, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, native plants, North American Plants, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, West Coast native Plants, tagged April blooming flowers, Bernard McMahon, British Columbia, British Columbia Plants, broadleaved evergreen, California plants, Finnerty Gardens, fragrant flowers, groundcovers, Mahonia aquifolium, March blooming, May Blooming Flowers, Oregon Grape, Oregon Plants, Thomas Nutall, Washington Plants, West Coast native Plants, west coast plants, winter interest, yellow flowers on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is the time of year which is the most exciting in the garden. After a cold winter we wait with bated breath to see what has survived and even will thrive. I note some Rhododendrons seem to have smaller flowers and the Tulips are finally beginning to show their buds. One plant I associate [...]
Catch A Shooting Star.
Posted in Drought Tolerant, native plants, Ocean exposure Tolerant, Specimens, West Coast native Plants, tagged April blooming flowers, British Columbia, Broad leaved Shooting Star, Dodecatheon hendersonii, Glendale Gardens, Henderson's Shooting Star, magenta flowers, March blooming, native plants, Perennials, pink flowers, Playfair Park, Shooting stars, West Coast native Plants, west coast plants on March 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have been fortunate to have worked as a grower at a nursery. This gave me the opportunity to grow plants which are not that well known. Some plants aren’t well known because they are hard to grow while others just have a false reputation for that. One plant I grew was the eastern(North American) form [...]
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 [...]
Our Own Native Easter Lily
Posted in Bulbs, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, native plants, tagged April blooming flowers, Beacon Hill Park, British Columbia, Bulbs, Erythronium oregonum, Government House, groundcovers, March blooming, native plants, North Saanich, Pacific North West Plants, Trout Lily, Victoria, West Coast native Plants, west coast plants, White Fawn Lily, white flowers, White Trout Lily on April 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
When I first moved here I did what I always do, travel around the less used roads to get a feeling for the area. This area is quite different from where I had moved from (greater Vancouver) and the pace is slower. It feels more like the area I grew up in, more rural and [...]
I Came From Afar to a Place in Your Heart.
Posted in Mass Plantings, native plants, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, Archibald Menzies, British Columbia, colorful berries, David Douglas, flowering shrubs, fragrant flowers, King Edward Currant, March blooming, native plants, North Saanich, pink flowers, Pioneer Square, red Flowering Currant, red flowers, Ribes sanguineum, Ribes sanguineum King Edward IIV, Tydman's White Currant, Victoria, Wain Road, West Coast native Plants, west coast plants, white flowers on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was fortunate to have spent much of my childhood out at the lake near the town we lived in. We spent weeks at the lake exploring it in the summer. I got to know every single native plant which grew there and we (my brothers and I) had our own imaginary gardens which had [...]
Early, Red, Wow, Rhododendron?
Posted in Mass Plantings, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, Arnold Arboretum, British Columbia, broadleaved evergreen, Dominion Brook Park, Early Red Flowers, Ernest 'Chinese' Wilson, Ernest H. Wilson, evergreen, February blooming, February flowers, late winter blooming, March blooming, March flowers, North Saanich, red flowers, Red Rhododendrons, Rhododendron strigillosum, Rhododendron Taurus, Rhododendrons, shrubs, small trees, Victoria, Woodland plants on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the Great Victoria we a blessed to have many parks and rural areas which we can explore, often the nearest ones are the places that are overlooked. I had been to Dominion Brook Park near where I live several times with my sister and her son to play and explore the large safe. It [...]
The Color of Spring.
Posted in Bulbs, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, tagged British Columbia, Daffodils, Early spring flowers, Early yellow flowers, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant flowers, fragrant yellow flowers, frangrant flowers, March blooming, March flowers, Narcissus, spring bulbs, spring flowering bulbs, Spring flowers, Victoria, white flowers, yellow flowering bulbs, yellow flowers, yellow spring flowers on March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This week I thought I would change things up and give you a bonus blog entry. There are just some many plants I want to write about. Next week it will be back to the quiz, consider this to be your spring break. Yellow is the colour I most associate with spring. There are some [...]
The Necromancers Scent.
Posted in groundcovers, Perennials, tagged British Columbia, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant flowers, fragrant winter blooming, frangrant flowers, Government House, March blooming, March flowers, Perennials, pink flowers, purple flowers, Sweet Violet, Victoria, Viola odorata, Violas, Violet flowers, white flowers, yellow flowers on March 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Sweet ‘Scented’ Violets have an elusive fragrance which is so ethereal that it disappears all most as soon as you sense it. For a few minutes it literally numbs your scent receptors.
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