Canadian Gardening: Prairie Round up report and a few pics, 1 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
Sorry to be so long getting around to this!
Ginny (Inanda) arrived on the Thursday, spent time with friends and came to my home on Friday. Lynn and Ann (Jagonjune and Annabelle) arrived Saturday morning. Our first stop was a private tour of Rundlewood Gardens. This is a small home based nursery in an old residential area of Calgary. It is a pie shaped lot (point at the front) surrounded with lovely old trees and a fabulous shade garden in the front. The back which slopes goes from a rock garden at the house to a bog to a sun and shade garden. Most of what they sell they grow in their garden so you can see it in situ! Rod Shaver gave us a wonderful tour of the gardens which they started developing about 15 years ago. And of course we bought plants!
I dont have any pics ( forgot the camera and Ginny ran out of memory!) Lynn or Ann do you have any?

After a brief stop at my house to let Lynn's lovely 10 week old GSD out and another brif stop at SpruceMeadows for June to order her special boots (did they come yet June?) we descended on Greengate Garden Center and bought more plants!

In the evening we walked over to my friend Joey Stewart's house. This remarkable house is sunk 12 feet into the ground with light puring in from skylights and distributed all around the house by internal windows - in every room, even the bathrooms! The house is filled with Joey's remarkable pottery. The garden is equally remarkable and makes wonderful use of stone and Joey's art work.
This is the waterfall in the backyard.

We came back to my house for a potluck supper - Joey, her husband Lorne and my friend Jennifer joined us and we had a pleasant evening.