Exotic Gardening with Rare and Strange Plants

Growing

So it’s officially starting to feel like spring. Minus the snow warnings, people’s garden vibe is starting up for the season and now begins the madness. There’s constant planting going on at the greenhouse right now and we were planting gallon lavenders all day.

Pots into trays, pots into soil machine, lavender out of plug tray, into pot, then brought up the hill, laid down in the greenhouse and watered. Repeat x 1000.

Being a grower is a repetitive gig no matter how you look at it, I think the more I accept that fact the less frustrated I get with it all. After all is said and done it’s pretty satisfying seeing a field of freshly planted product. Wait a month or two and voila, beautiful full lavender plants ready for gardens all around Vancouver Island and the lower mainland.

Mr Nat. Gardener, Plant Nerd
Tips and tales about gardening in one of the most mild climates in Canada. Specializing in rare and strange plants from far out destinations, this is the story of an obsessed young gardener in Victoria B.C. Let's create more tropical gardens in the garden city on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.