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Hi, Roebuck, We think we have died and gone to climate heaven here in the West Kootenays- no wind to speak of(!), relatively mild winters, hot...
Hi, I live in the West Kootenay mountains in central southern British Columbia, a high snowfall area. We have two to four feet of snow, often...
Hi, I have four small 16"L x 6"W x 6"D troughs of small JM seedlings. I poked them in on top of my pots of tulips and narcissus last fall,...
Thanks, Salt Cedar, I think they are maple leaf bladder galls. I read the link. Thank you. Thankfully, not rust, then. Any thoughts on best...
Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have 42 large bags of wet sugar maple leaves collected mid November last year. I noticed that quite a few...
Hi, Alves, Since the ugly building is 3 metres (10 feet) tall, if you have room and the money you could try building a trellis - there are so...
Hi, Rosa, Good to hear your Tib is doing well in spite of the frost. Worth putting the plastic on when frost threatens. I see it can grow to...
I hope someone can answer Daniel's question. I got my hands on some dierama bulbs after coveting them for years. I too put them in a pot and got...
Wow, Neko, Desert landscaping in New Westminster. It might be too wet for true desert plants but you should be able to grow quite a lot of...
Buenas dias, Rosa, If your Tibouchina Urvilleana is in a pot just move it into a covered porch or room for a few days or weeks until the danger...
That was quick! Thanks Silver Surfer. Hot dog! H. foetidis. I bought a H. f. 'Wester Flisk' at UBC years ago and it didn't survive. Probably...
I got this hellebore from a friend a couple of years ago as a 5 inch plant. It survived the winters and has grown to about 12 inches. The leaves...
Right, other way around. Thanks, Wrygrass. What is the critter, a marmot?
Thank you, Eric, These seed pods were collected by a friend and she couldn't remember whether they came from a tree or a shrub, but thought a...
Thanks, Wrygrass, We have black locusts here in the West Kootenays along the Columbia River but not as tall and usually bashed by the heavy...
I saw this tree in Jericho Park, Vancouver, about three weeks ago. It has dramatic rugged bark in addition to numerous burls, a compound leaf...
The Madonna Lily (L. candidum) has an evergreen rosette, even in Canada. My blossoms look bigger (about fingerlength) and taller than these...
I hope someone will be able to identify the shrub these seed pods came from. They were collected within walking distance of Jericho Beach Park in...
Could someone please ID this conifer that is common here in the West Kootenays. I think it might be an interior Douglas fir based on the little...
This is so interesting. Thanks for the link to photos of all three spiecies. For many years I had only the pretty Spanish bluebells then I found...
