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In honour of the Garden's 15th birthday, we are raising money to make upgrades to the very first garden that was created when the Society purchased the property: the Veggie Garden! This cherished, volunteer-run project has been working incredibly hard since the day...
After the hot week we had, it's time to harvest garlic! Our Veggie Garden volunteers harvested several kinds of garlic last Thursday and the bulbs will be cured for a few weeks before being cleaned and bagged; look for them for sale during Harvest Festival on...
A lot of what we do at the Veggie Garden when we start up in spring is weeding. Taking advantage of all this green material, we do trench composting, burying the weeds deep below our veggie beds. Trench composting is simple: You dig a trench – or any shape hole – 18...
Erythonium ‘Pagoda’ is an early-spring perennial that can be found growing in meadows or dappled shade of moist woodlands. It is an ephemeral plant that thrives in moisture, blooming after the snowmelt and going dormant before heat and drought set in. The ‘Pagoda’,...
Douglas Justice, Associate Director with the UBC Botanical Garden, and a Director on our Board, gave an interview to CityNews about why we saw so many flowers bloom ahead of schedule. With warmer temperatures around the corner, will we see them come back? Watch the...
Mahonia x media ‘Charity’ is an evergreen shrub with sharp, holly-like leaves. The spikes of scented, yellow flowers attract pollinating insects and hummingbirds when little else is in bloom. The flowers are followed by round, purple berries in late summer and fall....
The tree that is getting a lot of attention at the Garden right now is the Mespilus germanica, or 'common Medlar' - a tree that fruits in late fall/ early winter! As a member of the Rosaceae family, along with roses, apples, pears, quince, and hawthorn, the ripening...
Our dedicated Veggie Garden volunteers came together last week to plant a variety of garlic bulbs. The weather was dry and sunny - the perfect day to finish off the planting group's work for the year. Looks like they had fun doing it too! After an incredibly fruitful...
.Thanks to the rainfall we received in late summer and so far this fall, we are seeing the return of fungi of all kinds springing up all over the Garden! And we're not the only ones happy to see them - fungi are integral players in a healthy ecosystem and have a...