Another welcome to you hortensia. Here's our very own Canadian space on DG's. I know you'll like it here! --Ginny (on Ontario's West Coast)
Welcome hortensia from Langley, BC
Hi hortensia, so nice to meet you.
Donna from the beautiful Southern Interior of B.C.
Well, what a rainy day treat!!!
thank you both very much for such a warm welcome. Exciting day for me today, our long anticipated (and long saved for) patio is being installed in the front. Designed by me, installed by Rampton Stonescapes with whom I have done lots of work before, but always in other people's yards.
I am all atwither.
before and after pics forthcoming.
It is very exciting to me to have fellow Canadians as potential trading partners --- trading ideas at least, and plants at best. I have just begun collecting bearded iris again -- what a dazzling array is out there! and I have a large colletion of odd perennials. all of them have seeds --- looking for anything in particular????
Marian
Welcome from the prairies and yes we do trade actual plants. Will send you pics of my beardeds that are ready for dividing next year and will see what we can do.
what a bunch!
just looking at your "names" gives me some ideas -- Donna, I'm an "oldflowergirl" myself -- have a fairish collection of antique roses, some brought with me in this last move, others, alas, still babies; and I love to track down "unimproved" perennials of various sorts; though along the way I tend to fall for their modern kin as well. -- as witness, jagonjune; my current inability to find a single factor to exclude any iris from my wish list. I just got a bunch of arilbred from Malevil, an exciting departure for me; and some old rebloomers from Nichols. I hear all of these multiply pretty fast, so I should really be in the "trade" department, not just the "take".
anyway, I am really looking forward to time on this forum. I've started a "what is this" thread for my strange green flower. I can't identify it, and neither can all the other experts in my area. See what you think....
M
brugcrazy, one of my all too many fascinations are tropical and tropical looking plants. Have had a few brugs over the years, no good place to winter them until recently, and they have to share light space with orchids and plumeria.....yah yah.
echoes
Aug 30, 2005
hortensia - Welcome to Dave's Garden and especially the Canadian Gardening forum. So glad you love Irises. Although in your zone, you will be growing a lot that won't survive in my area, it will be great to see all your photos. I love starting perennials from seed too, and have a fairly extensive list of seed/trade possibilities.
echoes (Brenda)
Welcome to Dave's hortensia. I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
We have quite a few bearded irises....no names though. We just divided them up and got rid of a pile.
Sandy
echoes and nightowl; thank you both for the welcome. I have a few unnamed iris I got from my sister in Gibsons and also the usual here and there. If I like em, I keep em. If yuck, chuck. Actually, that pretty well sums up my attitude to my whole garden! I'm not a coddler.
Hence my years away from iris -- in Chilliwack I gardened on super rich, super heavy soil, with the natural water table above ground level :) and couldn't grow iris AT ALL. (nor primrose, oddly)
Now I'm on a sunny hillside, and all kinds of plants I've been pretending don't exist are back on my horizon. But iris, at the moment, are the things I'm loving.
Well, at least my main squeeze.
I'm having trouble uploading images, waiting on some advice on another thread. I have an interesting green daisy/aster/coreopsis that has appeared in my yard two years running. (yes LOTS of seed) it has truly green flowers, greener than apple green, and some plants have maroon stems. The whole plant is wiry and graceful, though tall (varies from 2-4 ft) it doesn't need staking.
I have NO idea what it is, which at this point in my life is enjoyable all on its own. I'm trying to upload pictures for others to see.
oops -- gotta go check out the action in the front yard!
M
hortensia
Welcome too from me! You are certainly in the zone for growing in Canada. We don't fare quite as well in Alberta. Looking forward to seeing your new patio.
Ann
Welcome from Ottawa. Look forward to meeting you in the forums.
Ann (the other one without an "e")
Welcome, hortensia and do you have the Myosotidium of the same name?--I do, but it is just hanging on. You will enjoy Dave's. From rainy Deep Cove (well at least this week it's rainly). Dawn
Hi everyone -- this is fun, I had no idea I was missing out on such a great time. I really appreciate the warm welcome!
Thanks for the encouraging words about the patio pics -- I have posted a few on a new thread in the Canadian forum; let me know what you think. Don't want -- actually, thats a lie, i DO want to upload every detail of transformed area in its glorious progress, but modesty (Canadian, remember) forbids.
It has turned out well, and now I have the fun of planting it in.
Ceebub -- you are not just EAST of Toronto -- you are from the only eastern city that has any resonance for me. I have bought roses from Pickerings for many years, through the thick and sometimes thin of their service. I think of you nestled in a rose, there!
and then, Annabelle, a wild rose girl! but you can grow a lot of things that just tolerate me -- lilacs, peonies. hate the rain and mild. hate me, I think, for suggesting they try.
sunrize, I HAD the myosotidium , but the thread snapped. The name actually comes from the French name for mophead hydrangeas. The why of that is a long story, I'll save it for a rainy day.
approaching soon, I'm afraid. or glad to say. not so sure right now.
:)
Hortensia, welcome from another Vancouver islander.
You mentioned plumerias, have they ever bloomed for you?
Linda
aagh, I don't know where to start!!!
ceebub; did Pickering CLOSE close, or just move? I know their online site is not accepting orders for 2005, but that happens every year in the same way. I would be sad to hear of Pickerings closing, because I have bought roses from them since 1979; and though I have at times been less than thrilled with them, they DO have a fabulous selection. And maybe one could one day get one of them. Named correctly. Maybe
Glad to hear, in any case that you have Maison Hogue so near. the name rings a bell, do they have a web store/ mail order business as well?
I am currently happy here as well, have been buying own root roses from Brentwood Bay nurseries on Vancouver Island. His stuff is wonderful and he has great taste in plants. (which is to say the same as mine! LOL)
Nice segue, don't you think__ to Vancouver Island. MG99, no my plumeria haven't bloomed. Nice and fat stems and wonderful foliage, though. I grew them from seed, so am dazzled just to have them, frankly. But I have a south facing window so I keep hoping. They are sentimental plants for me, my grandmother once bought me a stem back from Hawaii-- I was young and foolish, and it didn't live. But these ones carry on in her memory. she always referred to it as fragipangi. (2nd g intentional)
Have yours bloomed? Do you have them in a greenhouse or garden room, or just indoors?
Marian
Pickering Nurseries was 2 kms from my house. There is a big sign out front saying they've closed, and thanking the community for 35 years of business. I suspect they've closed up shop permanently from the looks of that sign. I'm not involved in the community enough to have heard the reason why, and to be honest, I never did business with them. I found out about it from people on DG just this year, but never knew their location as its set back on the street in an area that I don't go to very often. My DH and I were having dinner at a restaurant a few doors away from it two weeks ago when I saw the sign.... "Oh, that's where it is ... was...."
Welcome Hortensia from Mississauga ON ! I saw the pics of your roses and they are absolutely beautiful! I loved your province when I had occasion to visit in Feb 2003. I got on a plane in the middle of a snow storm here and 5 hours later was walking around, without my coat, admiring flowers in bloom all over the place.
Cheers,
Erynne
Welcome to Daves Garden, Marian.
From Riverview, NB
Thanks for the welcomes, Darryl & Erynne. I must tell you a funny tory about the only time I have been east. My partner had to travel to Toronto on business (as he does frequently) and his boss said- why don't you take M?
So off I went to stay with him in expensive hotels & eat expensive food. It was February..... I rushed around buying warm stuff -- gloves, heavier coat than I wear here etc. Got to TO in a record warm spell; wandered around on my own during the day dressed in a jacket & jeans; (having a great time btw)
All too soon, back to Vancouver; where it was snowing hard, had been ever since we left, and COLD!!!!! Warmed back up the day we arrived, much to the kids disappointment.
sometmes, it would seem, you can take it with you
M
LOL
That's funny.
Go figure....too funny!
I really enjoyed wandering around Stanley Park when I visited my friends on that trip.. My one friend left Toronto in 1994 to go to school in Vancouver and she never came back. I can totally see why. She has a garden year round; you guys are so lucky!
If I was a free bird, I'd be living out west in a heart beat.
Erynne
MMH HMM
I grew up on the very coast; where each point is zone higher than the bay behind it. Arbutus grow on the points, fir & hemlock in the bays and you could/can smell the difference. I remember being fascinated by this as a little girl, and watching my dad try really hard to get an arbutus started on our point, which wasn't quite as far in the open as my uncles, and didn't smell right.
He succeeded at last, though a sad codicil is that the people who brought the property from him years later accidentally burned it down.
I was saying to someone else how much our ideas of gardens are shaped by our childhood surrounds. Mine was definitely a 12 month experience --- searching for primrose in November and February - trying to beat my uncle finding the first salmonberry flower (he always won). hm sounds like at thread -- childhood garden memories??
what I started to say was something about how each region shapes its gardens and its gardeners. but I got lost on the way. Time for more tea
M
You start the memories thread Marian and I'll add to it for sure (but not until tomorrow - gotta run now). I have many wonderful childhood memories of gardening with my grandfather......OOPS! I'm supposed to wait for the thread, aren't I :-) --Ginny
After reading this thread through Marian, I can see that you're going to contribute much to these forums.
A big welcome, and have fun.
Joan
A belated welcome from Manitoba. Really busy bottling & freezing so don't get on the computer every day.
Garden content - moving tons of seedlings and getting extra lilies ready for our MRLS bulb sale at end of the month.
inanda
We are keeping hopping right now in the lower zones...... ;)
Spoke to you before in the Water Gardening Forum but thought I should say *Welcome to Dave's and the Canadian Gardening Forum* here as well
A big welcoming wave to you Mariam from Pam in ☼ Saskatchewan.