A bright sunny day always induces me in get out of the house and investigate local gardens and other favorite places. One never knows what will be spring up from the rocky crevices here. Bright spots of color are seen in berries that have remained over the winter, the earliest buds of bulbs and other [...]
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A Tapestry of Foliage and Flower.
Posted in Bulbs, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, tagged April blooming flowers, Attractive leaves, colorful foliage, Cyclamen coum, December blooming, February blooming, February flowers, fragrant winter blooming, frangrant flowers, fuschia colored flowers, interesting leaves, January flowering plants, magenta flowers, March blooming, Mauve Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, white flowers, winter blooming, winter flowers, winter garden plants, winter interest on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An Odd Couple For The Iris Family.
Posted in colorful berries, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, evergreen, groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged Algerian Iris, Beacon Hill Park, broadleaved evergreen, colorful berries, December blooming, Early yellow flowers, February flowers, Febuary blooming, fragrant flowers, fragrant winter blooming, frangrant flowers, Gladwyn Iris, Glendale Gardens, Government House, groundcovers, Iris foetidissima, Iris foetidissima 'Variegata', Iris unguicularis, January blooming, January flowering plants, June Blooming Flowers, lavender flowers, March blooming, May Blooming Flowers, North African Plants, orange berries, plum colored flowers, purple flowers, variegated foliage, Variegated Gladwyn Iris, white flowers, winter blooming, winter interest, Winter Iris, yellow flowers on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Another grey week and another plant hunt for something special. Usually I have a list of plants in mind but right now it is hard because some of the plants I wanted to do were damaged by an unusually hard freeze which came in early November last year. At that time many of the plants [...]
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 [...]
V is for ….. Verbena.
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Cut Flowers., Drought Tolerant, Mass Plantings, Perennials, tagged August Blooming Flowers, Butterfly Attracting plants, frangrant flowers, Glendale Gardens, Government House, July Blooming Plants, June blooming plants, late summer blooming plants, Long blooming plants, Mauve Flowers, purple flowers, Purpletop Vervain, September blooming, Tall Verbena, Verbena bonariensis on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Anyone who has a interest in plants will have heard of Linnaeus or at least experienced his worked when looking up a plant name. Carl Linnaeus(1707-1778) was the incredible man who developed the system which we use for naming plants and animals. Linnaeus brought order to already Latin named plants and animals by created a system [...]
My Fine Feathered Friends are Astilbes.
Posted in groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged Astilbe chinensis Pumila, Astilbe Peach Blossom, Astilbe simplicifolia, Astilbe x Fanal, Astilbes, Bog plants, Damp plants, frangrant flowers, Georg Arends, Glendale Gardens, Goerge Arends, Government House, magenta flowers, Mauve Flowers, Perennials, pink flowers, purple flowers, red flowers, Saanich, Shade Plants, U.B.C. Botanical Gardnes, Victoria, Waterside plants, white flowers, x arendsii, x japonica on July 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When we first come to be interested in flowers and gardening we often are totally in awe of the range of colors in flowers, we are like ‘kids in a candy shop’ and want to try every type and color tone. Slowly as we are exposed to other gardens and by reading(if we do) we [...]
The Dawn of a New Rose.
Posted in Climbing/Vining Plants, Shrub/Tree, Specimens, tagged Climbing Roses, Fragrant Roses, frangrant flowers, hardy Climbing Rose, Hardy Roses, June Blooming Roses, pink flowers, Pink Roses, Rambling Roses, Re-blooming Roses, Roses, Sidney B.C., Vigourous Roses on June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My mother’s parents lived on a farm in Surrey for most of my life. As a child we came to visit every summer and went to the beach, the big city and if we were lucky eat fresh cherries off the tree. Later I had a job near were my grandmother lived and would visit [...]
Achlys, The Sweet After Death.
Posted in groundcovers, native plants, Perennials, West Coast native Plants, tagged Achlys triphylla, Attractive leaves, Beautiful leaves, frangrant flowers, groundcovers, June Blooming Flowers, June blooming plants, May Blooming Plants, May flowers, native plants, North Saanich, Pacific North West Plants, Perennials, Sweet After Death, Vanilla Leaf, West Coast native Plants, west coast plants, white flowers on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When I moved from the lower mainland to the Victoria area I noticed several plants growing here which I had not seen before. First there was the Oceanspray(Holodiscus dicolor) which grew everywhere along the rocky drier areas. Then there is the abundance of Garry Oaks (Quercus garryana) which are so starkly noticeable in the winter [...]
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 »
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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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