Welcome the Monarch Butterflies to your garden!!!

Apr 22, 2019 | Plants

While you are buying your bedding plants in the coming days or weeks, make sure to look for Milkweed plants, if you want to attract these gorgeous creatures!! Milkweed is becoming harder and harder to find, because these plants are not welcomed by farmers in their...

Nature Nuts at Crescent Park

Mar 26, 2019 | Nature Walks

Definite visible signs of Spring in the last day of Winter!! We enjoyed a great walk along the outer trails of the park and cut across through the open soccer field towards the pond below. Everywhere were Indian plum in bloom and greening up with bright leaves. Their...

Nature Nuts at “North 40”

Nov 2, 2018 | Nature Walks

This Friday was a very mild but overcast day at North 40, a dog off leash area, North of Churchill and 72nd street, is a little jewel of a walk in Ladner.  Formerly used as a military airfield and communications station located beside Boundary Bay. After its closure...

Berries Anyone?

Jul 10, 2018 | Nature Walks

This week, on my daily neighborhood walks with the children and the dog, we encountered lots of edible berries, such as the red huckleberry, thimble berries, some wild raspberries, saskatoon berries, creeping blackberries (my personal favorite) and yesterday we...

Japanese Knotweed

Apr 24, 2018 | Plants

Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)  is invasive. It originates from Japan. It was brought over here by gardeners who thought the flowers to be lovely and used the plants to occupy any area needing quick growth for hedging and such. This plants reeks havoc in all...