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 »
Out of the Purple Haze and into the White:
Posted in Butterfly Attracting plants, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., Mass Plantings, Perennials, Specimens, tagged April blooming flowers, attractive seed heads, attractive seedheads, attrative foliage, Common Meadow Rue, delicate leaves, fern-like foliage, fern-like leaves, interesting foliage, Mauve Flowers, May Blooming Flowers, pink flowers, purple flowers, Thalictrum aqilegifolium 'album', Thalictrum aquilegifolium, white flowers on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a child I spent many days in the woods near our house in town and at the lake, there my interest in plants was awakened. Many of the plants I encountered there I have not found in the area I live now. Other plants I see may be related to the forms I grew [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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