by Heather Vince | Jul 28, 2024 | Events
View Auction Items 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...
by Heather Vince | Apr 1, 2024 | Garden Notes
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...
by Heather Vince | Mar 27, 2024 | What's in Bloom
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’,...
by Heather Vince | Jan 14, 2024 | What's in Bloom
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...
by Heather Vince | Dec 1, 2023 | What's in Bloom
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....
