Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators
Horticultural Societies and Garden Clubs
Experimental Farms and Seed Nurseries
Botanical Gardens
Heritage Seeds and Gardening
Reaping the Harvest
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
Acknowledgements |
The Cultivators
Botanical Gardens
| Members of the Royal Botanical Gardens receive the quarterly magazine, Pappus. The cover of this issue features a watercolour of Nova Scotian wildflowers by Maritime artist Joy Laker, well known for her botanical portraits. |
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Pappus.
Hamilton: Royal Botanical Gardens, Autumn 1990. |
The Devonian Botanic Garden was established by the University of Alberta in 1959. Beautifully situated in an area of rolling hills just outside Edmonton, its 87 hectares encompass a wide range of gardens and collections including a native peoples garden with plants identified in Cree syllabics, a hedged herb garden, and many other microclimate plots and dells.
| The Blue Poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia), a native of the Himalayas, can be found in the Blue Garden, and is the floral emblem of the Devonian Botanic Garden. |
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| The Friends of the Devonian Botanic Garden support its activities and have been publishing an informative newsletter, Kinnikinnick (the native word for both Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and Cornus stolonifera) since 1974. |
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Kinnikinnick, Vol. 9, No. 2. |
| In May of 1991, Canada Post issued a series of stamps commemorating Canada's public gardens at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton. |
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| Frère Marie-Victorin, author of Flore Laurentienne, with children working in the Montreal Botanical Garden which he was instrumental in founding in 1939. |
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