Much of our time in Vancouver was spent, to the delight of all, mucking about in Meo and Doco's garden. What a treat to get to dig some real earth! Alice and Lily were very quickly hard at play with their dear cousins Molly and Ellen.
Tiger Lilys
Alice and Ellen with Soap Berry
Lily, Molly and Alice with currant
Alice and Ellen in the sand box
Meo in the raspberries
Lily and Molly at work on Doco's new garden
Lily in the Hazelnut with violets
Alice and Meo planting... what were you planting Meo?
Ellen, the water nymph
Easter roses
Alice and her new sandals
Lily and Molly the 'ferocious' wolves
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Wonderful, Rachel!
Some botanical bits:
"tigerlilies" are the orange-and-brown striped meadow flowers at New Denver. The Wiltshire Street lilies are "dogtooth violets" (Watney and, I think, coastal BC name for them), "fawn lilies" (according to one flower book), "trout lilies" (Ontario), "avalanche lilies" or "slide lilies" (Idaho Peak and other BC alpine) - all Erythronium. But who cares? "a rose by any name ..."
"Soap-berries" are the bright red-orange soupallali (sp???) berries that made Grandad Harris's glorious salmon-coloured frothy drink that was terribly bitter (a native remedy for something). Also what the large brown bear was demolishing right beside the road up to Loch Colin last summer (as Lily came down). Our berries, white, are "snow-berries". Only the chickadees and hummingbirds eat them (in winter).
"Hazelnut" is "witch-hazel" (though I don't know what its witching is good for?).
Alice and I are planting Swiss chard (nearest the path) and Russian kale (second row in). The Russian kale ALL came up, enough for all of Wiltshire Street and New Denver gardens!
I think the "wolves" really are wolves. In their natural setting. Very fine.
much love, meo
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