Hi everyone,
I'm heading to Shearwater, NS tomorrow for a week, for work. Does anyone have any recommendations on public gardens or good garden stores to visit in the Halifax area?
Shannon
Looking for tourist-y suggestions for Halifax area
Ohhh, wish I was going with you. Hope you get a chance for a little R& R and enjoy a little Maritime Scenery.
Thanks Donna! I'm kind of interested in seeing Point Pleasant Park, after they lost all those old trees in Hurricane Juan.
I hurriedly planted a bunch of new perennials this evening, so as not to lose them from lack of water in their pots while I'm gone. Hope they make it!
Here it is, 11:00 pm and I still haven't vacuumed the house to look half-decent for the cat guy coming this week....and I am sitting here DG-ing instead.... well, this is more fun.
Hope you get some responses from someone in NS, but then it again, I suppose it's pretty late there now.
Had a great day today. The weather continues to be lovely and hot, so we went to visit a Gardener friend of mine in Creston which is about 150 km east of here. About an hour and a half drive. Creston Valley is full of fruit orchards and is a place I have always enjoyed visiting. We toured my friend Shelly's garden and I took pictures of of some of her amazing plants. They are on an acreage so she has lots of room and has large and beautiful flower beds and a gorgeous pond. Her water lilies completely cover the water's surface and the blossoms are so pretty and "big". She says she never bothers with them, "just throws them in", half of them aren't even in pots. Sheesh..and me busting my butt to do everything right, fertilizing, etc. and I have notta blooms. Figures! While I was there I got a bunch of Caeruleum Allium (Blue) bulbs, and I brought her a pot of Vaiegated Cattails for her pond. She loves variegated anything. Anyway, I haven't downloaded any pictures from my camera, but when I do, I'll post a few. Maybe you can catch the post when you get back.
Hope you ahve a good trip to Nova Scotia, Shannon. Talk to you when you get back.
:Donna
Yeah, I guess I left it too late. I didn't even think about asking DG folks until today.
Your day trip to Creston sounds great! A gardener's paradise. Doesn't it just figure ... hmm, maybe you've discovered a secret to pond maintenance. No more butt-busting....all you really have to do is sit back, relax, toss a few plants in the general direction of the pond and crack a cold one while you sit back and enjoy the fruits of your non-labour! lolol It's worth a try.
I was in Creston once, as a kid - we stayed in a motel and I remember going out into the apple orchard in the back yard the next morning, and picking an apple right off the tree for my breakfast. The whole place was idyllic.
I just got the place vacuumed, so only the kitty litter left to do...
Looking forward to Creston pics! If there's internet access somewhere around there, I'll drop by DG.
Good night...
Hi, have you been to Halifax Seed Co? They sell all kinds of great gardening stuff, some quite interesting, plus lots of seeds of course. I would also go look at Atlantic Gdns in Bedford - they're a big nursery, but I'd bring $$$ if I wanted to shop. There are beautiful gdns all over, but maybe these two places could steer you to special ones (I don't live in town, so don't know directions to any specific ones).
Hello Larke! You must have flown in under the radar. Nice to have another Maritimer join the Canadian Gardening segment of Dave's Garden.
:Donna from Southern Interior of BC
Hi Larke,
Thanks for the suggestions! It's nice to meet you (virtually, at least). It turned out that the quarters at the base had no internet access for me to check DG, but I shouldn't have left it so late to ask anyway. I will be back in Halifax within the year so I will be sure to check out both those places. I did go to the Halifax Public Gardens, which were quite nice, and took a walk through Point Pleasant Park - the devastation from Hurricane Juan made the place look a little unsettling. I hear also that they've been losing trees to the long-horn (?) beetle as well.
Whereabouts in NS do you live?
Shannon
Hi Shannon, we're about 15 mins north of the airport, so I guess you might have seen us when you took off. We've been here almost 2 yrs, were on the south shore before that x 6, and before that were in Toronto (orig. from Mtl. tho'). I really miss being close to the ocean, but it's still less than an hour away (compared to Toronto!), but it's harder to take our dogs now. It's also a tiny bit colder and a whole lot windier here than the south shore was, so I have to be really careful about what potted stuff I put on the deck to grow (only growing trees and a few perens on the propt'y otherwise so far). Wish I could live in BC just to grow things! Glad you had a nice time... I've been afraid to go see Pleasant Park since the hurricane, but I know they've done a lot of fixing. For a (mosly) bonsai person, seeing all the trees go down last year was awful, but I'm also amazed at what survived. Bye, L.