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Name That Plant
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A new plant is highlighted every week. Great photographs and insightful information on the plant inn the spotlight. Written by a professional Landscape Designer/Plant Expert in the Pacific Northwest. Quiz clues are given for the next plant Wednesday through Friday.
Recent Posts
A Garry Oak Acorn For My Thoughts
One of the most noticeable things about southern Vancouver Island is how dry it is for long periods of the year. We often have little or no rain from late May through until the end of September. This is a very tough situation for most plants to end...
The Colorful Dogwood Triplets.
When I was little my mother would talk about how beautiful certain trees and shrubs looked in the snow. She would speak of how beautiful the Birch looked with their stark black twiggy branches would show up so well against the white background. Sh...
A Hidden Gem
This is an article I wrote for ‘The Society of Friends of St Ann’s Academy‘. St Ann’s Academy is where most of the pictures for this article were taken. One job I have done at St. Ann’s Academy is checking the pl...
They Only come out in the Winter Here.
Were I come from the climate is cold and some types of plants are not well represented in the wild or are do not grow there at all. An example is broad leaf evergreen plants. The only types which have survived the extreme cold are those which hav...
I Metasequoia in the Park Today.
When I was in Horticulture school way back in the dark ages we learned about 300 trees and shrubs, the hardest for me were getting the conifers correct in my mind. These are the needle trees and shrubs such as Junipers of which there are many species...
A Very Well Behaved Missy.
We are now on the edge of what I call ‘change over season’ which is when we move from the summer season of warm dry weather to the cool wet winter. This time of the late year is when big storms start to roll in dumping vast amounts of rai...
