The
Rockland Woodland Garden Album
by Bill Birney
Bill
Birney, a long time resident of
Rockland, has taken many pictures of
the Garden. Part of his
collection is now on this site:
https://picasaweb.google.com/118018808932987920792/RocklandWoodlandGarden
To
see a slideshow of all the photos,
click on "Slideshow" at top left
below the album name. To return to
the screen showing all photos, click
on the album name Rockland Woodland
Garden at top left. You can change
the size of the photos by using the
slider at top right. Move the
slider to the right to make the
photos larger. To view a
single photo, click on it.
To comment on a photo -- enter your
comment in the box below the photo
and then click on "Post
comment". Also, you can just
click "Like" at left below the
photo. Anyone can see the number of
users who like a specific photo.
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Rockland Woodland
Garden
There
is a little space at the North junction of
Joan Crescent and Craigdarroch Road that
is the Rockland Woodland Garden
It is a special project for
the neighbourhood of the Rockland
Neighbourhood Association
WOODLAND
GARDEN REPORT
by Sue Simpson
This
garden season has turned out
to be a challenging one.First,
some of the plants in the
upper part of the garden were
dying, inexplicably. We are
not quite sure why and
sought advice from Thomas
Munson of the Victoria Parks
Department. Thomas provided
replacement plants (Indian
Plum, Flowering Red Currant
and Mock Orange) which
were planted. In addition to
these, 11 small Salal bushes,
two Small-leaved Montai and a
small Roemer’s fescue
were planted. A ps. related to
Thomas Munson - he identified
a very rare Albino Camas in
the lower camas bed-very
exciting!
That
leads into the second
challenge of the summer-months
of
beautifully sunny but very dry
weather. The garden required
rain of the artificial kind
but even that barely kept the
plants happy.And then
there were the deer. For some
reason, the deer were
particularly annoying this
year. They have munched on many
of the plants and left their
digestive droppings liberally
everywhere!! We think that
deer fencing is inevitable,
especially around the Camas
bed and the Goat’s Beard.
Too bad, but until Victoria
comes to grips with this
problem,
it may be the only way to
safeguard our little native
sanctuary.
The
students at the Middle School
started (interrupted by the
strike) a project to paint the
names of the specimen plants
on rocks. These novel name
tags look great and we look
forward to having the rest
completed in the coming year.
The
garden group got together a
few times this spring/summer
to continue to rid the area of
invasive plants. Fall will
likely bring another round of
“sprucing up’ to get ready
for winter.
Drop by
to see this labour of love
when you are in the area (corner
of Joan and Craigdarroch). It
really is a little gem in our
neighbourhood.
(Reprinted from the Rockland
Newsletter, Autumn 2014)
We
always welcome new volunteers! Come on
out, get some exercise, meet your
neighbours, contribute to your community,
and feel good about
helping to re-establish a part of our
endangered Garry oak ecosystem!
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