Roche Fleurie Garden

You might have read one of my previous posts in which I wax eloquently about turnip tops, a green I hold in very high esteem. It is a ve...

One of my favorite new plants this year was Campanula incurva.- - a rock garden bellflower with large blooms, almost as big as Canterbury b...

In late September this is the shrub that blooms most profusely at Roche Fleurie.  The common name is Bush Clover. Being of the pea family (...

September is associated with the ripening of wild apples that surround the garden. As regular readers will already know, lots of apples mea...

This is a gardening blog, so the vast majority of the posts have to do with the garden, its plants or its design. For a change, it might ...

Late August is the time when there are still some blooms, but they look rather tired. Somehow, even flowers that have just opened seem tire...

One of our shortcomings as a gardeners is to be too inclined to leave attractive weeds to prosper. Some years we am more strict, others mor...

The Shuswap is a lake and area of British Columbia where we have just spent a holiday week. The Thompson river in the Shuswap

It has been an excellent year for blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum). In fact we had a bumper crop. Some years there will be a late frost when ...

In this garden, the regular foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) does not do well. It is, in fact, very difficult to grow, mostly because the soil...