Friday, March 26, 2010

The name says it all

Sunshine Hills, on the heights above Burns Bog, gets started on their spring blooms a couple of weeks before the rest of Delta.

Last week, they were running the April program up there:


Wallflowers


Magnolia center


Pasque flower. I love those feathery leaves!


These look like they're made of wax. They're not.


Pieris japonica


Pink heather. This blooms all winter up here.


White magnolia, small-petalled variety. This was on a huge tree, a mass of white blooms top to bottom.


Pretty fly on the white magnolia.

Sunshine Hills is early; my shady garden is late. But yesterday morning, the first flower bud of my Dutchman's breeches started to unfold. We'll get there, yet.

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful flowers, and great shots! I lived in Vancouver for several years; you're reminding me of how much I loved your part of the world. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Your shots have captured the essence of spring beauty. Yes, Spring is finally upon us. Well, most of us.

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  3. I've always wanted to go to Burns Bog. I didn't know they had activities for the public over there.

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  4. Lorena, the tours look interesting. We've never been on one, just wandered the paths alone, usually getting lost in the process.

    (Don't ask me how; there are only two loops, but we always seem to take the wrong entrance.)

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