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One of the best stabilizers for steep shady slopes is our native sword fern. When I go hiking I am astonished at how successful and attractive...
Walking near Whyte Lake 2023-11-23 we noticed a faint but definite vanilla scent, very similar to crushed vanilla leaf Achlys triphylla. We...
I live in Vancouver Bc and purchase two of these plants in early summer. They were mixed in with annual bedding plants but with no labels. they...
Unknown bedding plant for ID
My sister gave me a couple of planters with two types of unknown perennials. I would like to give the plants away and repurpose the planters,...
One of the old collapsed raised beds in our allotment garden has a large volunteer squash plant growing in it. The plant is very vigorous and has...
A couple of years ago I inherited a small allotment garden bed with a bunch of strawberry plants on one side - a 2' x 8' strip of small plants...
'Mushroom manure' in a garden soil mix is probably the component least likely to result in burnt plants and random fungi in your garden. Fresh,...
I'm member of a small Vancouver conservation group "Free the Fern" working to remove invasive plants like ivy, yellow-archangel, and Himalayan...
The Botany Section of Nature Vancouver presents Daniel Mosquin - Photographer & Educator in an Online Zoom Presentation on Thursday Nov 19th at...
This spring I bought a magenta flowered cultivar of Saxifraga fortunei, because I've had great success with a S. fortunei ‘Rubrifolia’ plant which...
I was given an elephant garlic bulb a few weeks ago, but haven't planted it yet. Is it too late? It's a nice solid round bulb about 1" in...
Thanks, It is good to know that each stem represents a separate, and separable bulb. Regarding the stem I didn't mean to say that they didn't...
My Black Beauty(Oriental x Trumpet) Lily was bought as a single bulb about 20 years ago. It has done well and is now a large clump with about 8...
I have a number of large pots and window boxes which are potted up year round - bulbs in fall through spring and annuals in the summer with a few...
If you are hiring a rodent control service make sure they are not using bait stations with rodenticide. These secure 'bait boxes' are commonly...
Wendy, By coincidence I was just looking at this fern a friend gave me and trying to figure out what it was. Naively I thought "with these...
The single Bletilla I bought several years ago has now spread to produce about 12 stems, but the stems are quite far apart and scattered over an...
Sorry, that reply was posted before I was finished composing it. The flowers were definitely all single and quite small, certainly no larger than...
From looking at other photos online 'Kojo -no-mai' certainly looks very similar. Prunus incisa 'Kojo-no-mai' Tree The leaves at the middle right...