Winter getaway – Dobrogea I

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Well, the trip interruption was a bit longer that I would have wished, but here we are on the road again (see first part of the trip here). In order to beat the polar vortex that descended upon us we need sun & flowers! As I said, the…
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Winter getaway – Caryophyllaceae part I

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Follow-up to Friday’s seeds - let’s go up the mountains and then travel to the Dobrogea region (close to the Black Sea, Romania) to see a few Caryophyllaceae. I’ll start with Arenaria; yes, usually not overly ornamental plants but easy…
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Through the looking-glass: Montreal Botanical Garden

Every time I visit a Botanical Garden, it feels like stepping into a parallel world full of wonders. Montreal Botanical Garden especially felt like the Garden of Live Flowers. Did the flowers think that I was one of them? I don’t know, but…
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Plants of the Canadian West Coast – III

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From the shady side As we are approaching the longest night of the year, it seems appropriate to present few species from the shady side. The characteristic rain forest of the area presents itself as an enchanted place with huge ferns, moss…
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Plants of the Canadian West Coast – II

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More snow is on the way for us (and bitter cold), but we are hiking on the Sooke Coast trail where there are many flowers ;) Enjoy and more to come... As I mentioned in part 1, Sedum spathulifolium seems to enjoy the company of many…
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Plants of the Canadian West Coast

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Sooke Coast Trail - part 1 At this time of year we are in need of sunny/flowery images, so I’ll quit the propagation stories for a while (I am sure some readers got heavily bored ;). Chance made it that I got to visit Victoria (situated on…
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For Seed trade – Helleborus purpurascens

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Update: since I wrote this post in 2014! we now have the plants grown from wild collected seeds in the Carpathian Mts. (2 different accessions) flowering well and rewarding us with seeds. Nothing is more satisfying than to see plants grown from…
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The Alvars World of Bruce Peninsula

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Alvar is the name used for a distinctive habitat formed by a thin covering of soil or no soil at all, over a base of limestone or dolostone bedrock. These alvars support specialized species communities and are found only in the North America…
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