A Healing Garden on Vancouver Island

A community-created space of beauty

Today Pam Fraser is take us on a tour of a beautiful garden where she volunteers .

I live in Ladysmith on the southeast seashore of Vancouver Island , Zone 8 , on the west coast of Canada . Today I would wish to divvy up some photograph of a garden where I volunteer . The Doris Gallagher Memorial Gardens are located behind our biotic community health center and next to an extended forethought installation . In normal time , resident physician from the deftness often inspect and enjoy the garden ; hopefully ( I compose this in early June 2020 ) they will be able to do so again soon . We have detect more visitor from the cosmopolitan public during the pandemic . As we gardeners jazz , visit a garden is a wondrous counterpoison to all form of troubles .

The gardens are maintained by volunteers from the Ladysmith Healthcare Auxiliary , founded in 1909 as a support for the then - new hospital . Today our main activity is running a successful thrift memory board , which we are in the process of reopening . We donate the earnings to local and regional brass that stomach all type of community wellness , including our nutrient bank , various support programs , lookup and rescue , hospice , and health care equipment . A bit of the money arouse goes to corrupt supplies for the Memorial Gardens .

In the Memorial Gardens , we strive for yr - round interest , but outflow is the time of year of the real floral fireworks . The garden is intimately 40 twelvemonth old , so many of the plantings are mature . The ikon are from this spring and others , and they take you through some of the highlights of the season .

The first of the flowering trees , themagnolias , are abbreviated but dramatic .

Next are the cherry trees , which line many street in our region . This is a later double cherry red with the pompom blossoms(probably the varietyPrunus‘Kanzan ’ , Zones 5–9 ) .

In April thetulipsand the pinkish flowering dogwood(Cornusflorida , Zones 5–9 ) in the background put on their show . regrettably , this picture is not from this year . The bunnies ate virtually all the tulips this spring . I have lots of empathy now for Farmer McGregor and much less for Peter Rabbit .

In May the over - the - toprhododendronsshine .

We have a telephone number of smorgasbord of rhododendrons andazaleasto keep the show going .

Our mature rhododendrons make tunnel of bloom .

afterwards in May we found out someannuals , include this “ Welcome to the garden ” raised planter .

Another “ planter ” that has done well is this Douglas fir tree tree stump with some edging brick on top . At first we tried annuals here with motley succeeder . Then I planted an orphanspiraeafrom my garden a dyad of year ago . It seems to love the locating . That ’s a California lilac(Ceanothus)in the background .

In June the rose garden takes over . This is a ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ rose , one of the stars .

From the garden is a view of Ladysmith Harbor . On a clear solar day , we can see the top of Mt. Baker in Washington State . The snowy anthesis trees in the foreground are dogwoods . Both aboriginal and school cornel put on another spring show all over town .

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