Archives: Plant of the Week

  Echinacea × purpurea Sombrero™ Salsa Red There are many different Echinaceas available but the Echinacea × purpurea Sombrero™ Salsa Red is one in the Sombrero series developed by Darwin Perennials. Salsa Red has very large, single flowers made up...

    Native to the Mediterranean, Lavenders like full sun and well drained soil which is why they do so well here in the Okanagan. Another one of our all time favourites, Lavender is looking spectacular now.  It looks very...

  This gorgeous shrub deserves a place in every garden providing you can give it given plenty of room!  It is often seen planted in tiny beds where it will surely become a problem as it outgrows its space, but...

  What a fabulous planting combination this is – Diablo Ninebark and Annabelle Hydrangea. Both these plants are great choices on their own but these photos show how the individual beauty of a plant can be enhanced by other plants...

  This week’s Plant of the Week is Rosa x ‘Morden Sunrise’ – Morden Sunrise Rose. Anyone who has taken a walk outside recently cannot have failed to notice the variety and abundance of beautiful roses in bloom now. Morden...

  The climbing hydrangeas are just coming in to full bloom right now and are looking lovely!  Hydrangea petiolaris is the botanical name for this deciduous, woody vine that climbs by clinging to walls and fences using aerial rootlets.  The...

Our plant of the week is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year 2014 Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Miss Saori’ (H20-2)  This highly coveted award was given at the Chelsea Flower Show, which has just wrapped up for another year,...

Acer psuedoplatanus ‘Esk Sunset’ (AKA Eskimo Sunset Sycamore Maple) is just stunning! It must be one of the showiest of all maples and would make a great specimen tree.   The new spring leaves are orangey-pink, which mature to shades of...

Ostrich fern is a clump-forming, upright fern which can reach heights of 3′ in cultivation, but may get taller than this in moist, cool climates in the wild. The fern has finely dissected, medium green, fronds which, as the common...

This week’s Plant of the Week is Lunaria, common names Silver Dollars, Honesty or Moonwort.  Lunaria  is widely recognizable in the fall when it has produced seed and the translucent, moon-shaped seed pods cover the plant.  However, it is quite...