Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver’
Top Vancouver Garden Designer Nenagh McCutcheon Shares the Three R’s of Garden Renovation – Restore, Renovate, Revitalize
“It’s a sign things are wrong when trees and shrubs are too big for their location. Or paths are overgrown. Or arbors and arches are lost under mounds of foliage. All these are symptoms that a garden has lost its identity.” January 25, 2002 On this day, the Vancouver Sun shared an article by Steve…
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2021 How to Grow Chillies, Robert Burns, the Star of Bethlehem Orchid, the Vegetable History of Neeps and Tatties, Botanica Magnifica by Jonathan Singer, and the Garden’s Three R’s of Renovation
Today we celebrate a poet who loved flowers and became the beloved poet-son of a country that celebrates him still today. We’ll also learn about an orchid that inspired a fabled true story about Charles Darwin. We’ll hear about some fascinating vegetable history that is celebrated every year on this day. We Grow That Garden…
Read Morethe Vancouver Chinese Garden Koi Pond Decimated by Otter in a Repeat Attack
“It’s not yet known whether this otter is the same one that ate 11 of the garden’s 14 prized koi fish in November of last year, including a prized 50-year-old fish named Madonna.” November 2, 2019 On this day, the Global News shared a story called Koi Tremble in Fear as Otter Makes a Reappearance…
Read MoreThe 1998 Surrey White Rock Hydrangea Blossom Festival Cancelled Due to Red Tape
“She was a little shocked two weeks ago when she sat down before the city’s special-events committee to be told by chairwoman Council Judy Higginbotham that her permit had been denied.” August 5, 1998 On this day, The Province out of Vancouver, British Columbia, shared an article by Peter Clough that caught my attention. The…
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