Field Trips « Garden Wisdom

World in a Garden series

My friends at The World in a Garden are running a series of gardening workshops this summer at their lovely community plot at West 57th and West Boulevard in Vancouver (across from Choices market). On June 27th, they launch the series with a talk on companion planting. WCS will be on hand with some seeds [...]

A walk through UBC Botanical in the rain

Well, light rain, anyway. It was damp, but beautiful out at the UBC Botanical Garden. Now, I love all plants, and they have a really sensational collection out there – it’s a place more Vancouverites should know about. But I gravitate toward the Food Garden every time. Most of the food [...]

Growing Seeds: Part 2

Northeast of Albany, Oregon, lie hundreds of acres devoted to harvesting flower seeds. Where I was, most of the fields were isolated – just one type of flower on an acre or two, surrounded by wheat or corn. But in a few places one flower field abuts another, and it’s even more beautiful, somehow.

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Growing Seeds: Part 1

I had the pleasure last summer of visiting a couple of seed-growing farms in Oregon. The first was Frank and Karen Morton’s farm in the beautiful countryside around the tiny town of Philomath. Here they grow certified organic lettuce, grains, flowers, and many other plants – partially for their farm store and local restaurants, and [...]