Showing posts with label public gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public gardens. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2020

A Swirling Crown at Finnerty Gardens




Finnerty Garden at UVIC is swirling into life at Spring Equinox time. Trees display all life-stages -- some rejoining the earth they came from, turning into rich habitat for many other species.

Blossoms and bulbs, rhodos and forsythia are worth a visit. Distance yourself here. Nature cheers us in stressful coronavirus times.

(Photo by Laura Seabury Smith, Victoria short story writer and author of the novel If Two By Sea.  www.smashwords.com)


Thursday, September 24, 2009

Spirit Garden

A neighbour enjoying a sun bath in a little wedge of public green space. The Spirit Garden is an attractively-treed garden cared for by community volunteers, parallel to Richmond Street (to the west) between Newton and Kings. Before it was a garden, this space was a garbage dump, which just shows what garden-loving volunteer energy can accomplish. Before that, it was part of the Bowker Creek, which runs underneath it.

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