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Plant Oriented: Rooftop beauty among Vancouver's concrete canyons
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Tuesday, 29 April 2014. Rooftop beauty among Vancouver's concrete canyons. Another weekend presents a fresh opportunity to explore a truly unique urban garden. Among the highrises of Vancouver's Coal Harbour, it looks out on the ocean and local mountains. Glen's garden has a definite Japanese influence. Well, it is more than that, but to begin, it uses the Japanese landscape principle shakkei. They live here year round.
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Plant Oriented: Reimagined former quarry becomes garden hotspot in city center
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Wednesday, 14 May 2014. Reimagined former quarry becomes garden hotspot in city center. Just a short stroll from my home near Vancouver's center is a marvelous sunken garden. It lies within Queen Elizabeth Park, and it's a huge draw for plant and nature lovers. Join me on my walk! The overlook view gives a splendid first impression. It's a popular tree, planted all around Vancouver, often reaching enormous sizes.
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Plant Oriented: Another Spring plant show with an abundance of great plants
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Another Spring plant show with an abundance of great plants. Recently I made a lightning excursion across the Salish Sea, from Vancouver to Victoria, BC. I was on a mission to judge another alpine plant society's show. There was amazing diversity of plants offered to the public, even some great trophy hardware! Every Spring the venue is full of alpine treasures. It is a climber from Chile and gr...
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Plant Oriented: May 2014
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Another Spring plant show with an abundance of great plants. Recently I made a lightning excursion across the Salish Sea, from Vancouver to Victoria, BC. I was on a mission to judge another alpine plant societys show. There was amazing diversity of plants offered to the public, even some great trophy hardware! Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society. Wednesday, 14 May 2014. Translate int...
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VIRAGS Calendar
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Garden in the Park. Updated: June 9, 2016. Regular Meetings: Doors open at 7 pm Meeting begins at 7:30. At Gordon Head United Church Hall, 4201 Tyndall, Victoria B.C. Meetings will be held on the second. Tuesday from now on * * *. This is to enable sharing speakers with the Vancouver and Calgary clubs. Fri June 10, Open Garden 6 pm, Meeting 7 pm Special Outdoor Meeting in Janice Currie's garden. See the newsletter for her address. Wildflowers in the Dolomites. Tues September 13 Regular Meeting. Latin and...
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Plant Oriented: Rhododendron walk at Van Dusen botanical garden
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 24 April 2014. Rhododendron walk at Van Dusen botanical garden. As I mentioned to some visitors I met, I like to see how the other half lives, it gives me perspective! My leisurely stroll on Van Dusen's Rhododendron walk was both pleasant and informing. As I arrived at "the rhododendron walk", I noticed the air held a touch of warmth, and offered sweet fragrance. And the buzzing of a hummingbird on the wing.
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Plant Oriented: A Spring moment in my alpine and rock garden
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 3 April 2014. A Spring moment in my alpine and rock garden. Spring is definitely not just Spring. It's different things to different people, at different times, in different places. No single Spring is the same, either. Earlier, later, colder, warmer, drier, depending where you live, across the road or around this globe. It may even be different down the street, but that's not my. Rh tsariense 'Yum Yum'.
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Plant Oriented: Big, small, high, low, Japan, Canada, alpine!
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 17 April 2014. Big, small, high, low, Japan, Canada, alpine! In my garden, I grow plants from all continents with temperate climates. These plants are not all technically alpine, but they are certainly plants that look well associating with rock. They also co-exist well in my alpine garden near the sea! Now how does that work? The Salix nakamurana var. yezoalpina. Pictured above provides an excellent example...
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Plant Oriented: Alpine Garden Club of B.C. Spring show from a judge's point of view
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Exploring ornamental and cultivated plants and horticulture in Japan and North America. Thursday, 10 April 2014. Alpine Garden Club of B.C. Spring show from a judge's point of view. Thursday April 10, 2014. It's my happy task to yearly play a part in judging the Spring alpine plant show for the garden club I belong to. I anticipate this extra burst of plant growing intensity, as competitors up their game and try for the many trophies available. Grown to perfection, blue ribbon worthy. While on a botanica...
