Latest Blog Posts for Name That Plant

• A Fashion Plate in Charteuse and Sea Green.
  on Jul 31, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. Drought Tolerant evergreen groundcovers Mass Plantings Perennials Alchemilla mollis Alchemilla vulgaris Alchemilla xanthocholra Attractive leaves charteuse flowers dried flowers edging plants floral arrangers flowers July blooming June blooming Lady's Mantle May blooming sea green foliage sea green leaves yellow flowers
  I have come to like many of plants that have been in gardens for hundreds of years. I love to find out the stories behind their common names. Some plants I have grown and others I like from afar, most of these plants have shown that they are still wo...
• A Blizard of Blossoms
  on Jul 21, 2011 in attractive bark colorful berries Colorful foliage Shrub/Tree Specimens Trees attractive fruit autumn color Beacon Hill Park colorful foliage dainty trees Finnerty Gardens fragrant flowers Glendale Gardens Government House Japanese Snowbell Japanese Snowbell tree July flowers June flowers May flowers pink flowers small foliage small leaved trees small trees Stryax japonicus Angryo Styrax japonica Styrax japonicus Styrax japonicus Agryo Dwarf Styrax japonicus Carillon Styrax japonicus Emerald Pagoda Styrax japonicus Pink Chimes Styrax japonicus Rosea white flowers
  Some plants I see and fall in love with instantly and want to get one…when reality sets I know this is impossible as I have no spot to put it. I will forget about the plant and later stumble on it in other places and remember all over again how...
• The Scent of My Grandmothers House
  on Jul 11, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. Drought Tolerant evergreen groundcovers Historic Plants Mass Plantings Perennials 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
  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...
• A Case For Cotinus.
  on Jun 26, 2011 in attractive bark Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Drought Tolerant Mass Plantings Shrub/Tree Specimens autumn color burgundy leaves C.otinus coggygria 'Ancot' charteuse leaves Cotinus 'Grace' Cotinus 'Notcutt's Variety' Cotinus 'Royal Purple' Cotinus coggygria Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit Cotinus coggygria 'Velvet Cloak' Cotinus coggygria var. szechuanensis Cotinus obovatus Cotinus. szechuanensis Cotinus.coggygria 'Foliis Purpureis Cotinusa 'Grace' Edward Scissorhands July blooming June blooming May blooming plum colored leaves purple leaves red leaves Smoke Bush Venetian Sumac wine colored leaves yellow leaves
  At this time of the year I really become aware to the color of foliage in various plant in the landscape. Plants are still fairly fresh and their foliage is alive and vibrant with color. Colors other than greens stand out in ways that often fade as t...
• The Baron and the Little Flower.
  on Jun 19, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Drought Tolerant groundcovers Mass Plantings North American Plants Ocean exposure Tolerant Perennials South American Plants April blooming flowers August blooming August Blooming Flowers August flowers Baron Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinski von Karvin Baron Wilhelm Friedrich von Karvin Karvinski Bony Tip Fleabane Erigeron Erigeron karvinskianus Erigeron karvinskianus 'Moerheimii' Erigeron karvinskianus 'Profusion' Erigeron karvinskianus 'Snowdrift' Erigeron moerheimii Fleabane Government House July blooming July Blooming Flowers July flowers June Blooming Flowers June flowers Latin American Daisy March blooming May Blooming Flowers Mexican Daisy October blooming pink flowers Santa Barbara Daisy September blooming September blooming flowers September flowers Spanish Daisy white flowers
  I was listening to the local radio yesterday as I went about my business about town, they were interviewing a local vegetable grower who said crops are 5 to 6 weeks behind where they normally are at this time of year. I knew the season was behind alt...
• Silver, Gold and Moonshine All in One Plant.
  on Jun 12, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. Drought Tolerant Mass Plantings Ocean exposure Tolerant Perennials Specimens Achillea 'Moonshine' Alan Bloom August blooming August flowers Blooms of Bressingham Brentwood Bay Bressingham Gardens fragrant flowers Government House grey foliage Grey leaves July blooming July flowers June blooming June flowers May Blooming Flowers Moonshine Achillea Moonshine Yarrow silver foliage siver leaves sulphur flowers yellow flowers
  This time of the year usually is warmer and the Roses would be in full bloom, I guess I will have to wait a bit more. In the meantime I am reminded that there are so many other plants which are now stealing the show and some of them do it in a way wh...
• Out of the Purple Haze and into the White:
  on Jun 5, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. Mass Plantings Perennials Specimens 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
  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 for...
• I Like My Iris Grape Scented and Variegated Please.
  on May 29, 2011 in Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. Drought Tolerant groundcovers Mass Plantings Perennials Specimens American Iris Society attractive foliage 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
  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 co...
• Seducing You With Scent on Grey Days.
  on May 22, 2011 in Butterfly Attracting plants Colorful foliage Historic Plants Mass Plantings Shrub/Tree Specimens April blooming flowers autumn color Beacon Hill Park colorful foliage Doiscorides Finnerty Gardens fragrant flowers Glendale Gardens Joseph Pitton de Tournefort May Blooming Flowers Playfair Park Pontic Azalea Rhododendron luteum Xenophon yellow flowering shrubs yellow flowers
  2 days of bright sun light and everyone is out mowing their lawns, the garden centers a full of shoppers buying plants, then back into the grey. It has been grey and dreary almost everyday this year! It is not surprising at all that we rush out into...
• A Hosta Imposter and Other Relatives.
  on May 15, 2011 in colorful berries Colorful foliage Cut Flowers. groundcovers Mass Plantings native plants North American Plants Perennials Specimens West Coast native Plants April blooming flowers cream flowers Dominion Brook Park Finnerty Gardens fragrant flowers Maianthemum canadense Maianthemum dilatatum Maianthemum racemosum Maianthemum stellatum May Blooming Flowers Playfair Park Smilacina Smilacina racemosum white flowers Wild Lily of the Valley
  When I moved to go to school I soon missed the outdoors in the way I had experienced it during my life. I was no longer able step outside and wander in the woods within a few steps of the home I had lived in. It was not until I moved to the island I...

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