Prairie Round up report and a few pics

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.

This is the table in the back yard - had to be brought in with a crane!

Ginny, Joey and Lynn (back to camera)

Part of the rock garden

Here's the pup - sorry Lynn I have forgotten his name!

Sounds like you all had a wonderful time. Wish we in the east would have a Round up....

Sunday morning we headed over to the Reader Rock Garden for brunch and a walk about. This garden was originally the work of the first parks super. William Reader and he had hundreds of plants from all over the world. After his death the gardens fell into disarray and have recently been restored by the city with the help of many volunteers.
Theresa(Violist) back from her daughters graduation in Boston, joined us in the afternoon with a tray of plants to trade . Lynn and Ann had also brought plants and Ginny had bags of iris! And so it was over and Lynn and Ann headed back to Edmonton. Ginny took off for Victoria Monday morning ( Ginny you really did sneak out quietly didnt you -not even the dogs heard you!) with 2 large Mytke containers stuffed with plants - hope they made it home OK GInny - to visit family and go to the Denham Island Roundup.

This is Carol ( and Fancy), Theresa and Ginny

Round Uppers showing a leg! What no smiles?

Hope Ginny and Ann and June will have a few more pics!

Does Joey do garden tours? I would pay admission to see that garden! Is that the neighbor who made your mirrors? The stone table reminds me of the one in the Narnia books..... Thanks for posting the photos Carol. You forgot to mention the great photos of Chelsea we got to see. Inanda, did you have a great time camping?

Theresa

Hi Carol
I do have a few photo's and had to get them off the camera.
Here is Rod's ( Rundlewood Gardens) rock wall around his house. The next photos are other angles. It was amazing!

Rock wall number two.

Here are Ginny , Carol and Rod in deep discussion over a plant.

This is a mini Huchera(sp?) in the Rock wall.

This is a photo of Joey's Semp bed which was raised and on the side of her wonderful house. These guys are mini's . Joey and her husband were so welcoming and a supertime was had by all.

This was the Harder Rock Garden, This stand of Iris's was outstanding!

Thanks Anne. Too bad we did not have a full face pic of Rod - he is such a neat guy and has an absolutely wonderful mustache ( you can seea bt of it in the pic!)

What a wonderful tour!! Thank you for all the pictures. You better make sure I come next year! What a trip I missed.

:) Donna

Next year? Are we doing this again? ~:)

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You better...lol!!

Great trip and thanks for the photos, looks like you guys had dry weather. Looks wonderful

It looks like Carol organized a super time for everyone! Joey's home and Rundlewood look especially interesting. Wish I could have got there. Thanks for the pics Carol and Ann.

Sandy

Great pictures and no rain. We had rain on Denman Island.

I love the rock walls. It looks like the gardens you went to see were really interesting. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Sandy

Yes a great time was had by all!
Carol did an excellent job of aranging and getting us into special places, Rod's and Joey's!
I am now into starting a Hen and Chick collection, Yikes more plants. My Hubby hasn't noticed them yet, which is a good thing. I'll be able to say they were there all the time and he just didn't see them.
Ann

Oh wow The gardens are lovely. It is so much fun do a tour and this one sounds like you all had a great time.
I really enjoyed seeing all the pictures, thanks for sharing it is almost like being there. I wish I had been:)

Bea

Ok I am waiting to see more photo's Ginny and Ann and June do you have some. Ginny did you figure out how to get them up here yet?

Bea

Dont think Ginny got many pics - she filled up her memory card taking pics of my garden!

Hi All just got a new computer and am working on getting things to work, or I should say learning how things work. I will read my cards and pull some more photo's.
Ann