Hallson Gardens

Hi John, Don't know what varietal this one is, but it's been in bloom for us since Christmas, here in (sometimes) Sunny B.C. I have another small Hellebore seedling a neighbour gave me last year and its lone bud fell prey about 3 weeks ago to a since deceased rodent and I won't get a good idea of wh...

Well John, out on the left coast things haven't quite progressed that far. While we have been mostly above freezing during the day, we have been dropping to just below freezing overnight for the last week or so. The first of the spring bulbs up for us are Snowdrops. When I mentioned to my brother th...

Hey Chris, See you've been doing some pruning again: the newest member shows as having joined in July '06! Or am I witnessing something else? At the bottom of the forum index it shows who is online and this morning it shows nanny_56 as the newest member, yet when you check the memberlist there are a...

about snow on the plants around us. This is what fascinated me yesterday when I was checking things out while the dog had his morning constitutional. I just love that furry look the Sage gives, particularly this time of year. Something about the shape of the chunk of ice on it suggests a Flying Squi...

Hi Chris, Just plain curious, I have noticed over the past two or three weeks a couple of new user register who just smell of having joined for no other reason than to be able to harvest e-mail addresses to populate spam e-mail lists. One of the things, for me at least, as a dead give-away is the we...

Well John, while I have some Daffodils poking their noses through the surface in some #3 pots, what I have planted in the ground have not yet broken surface, but my Snowdrops are well on their way, as you can see. I also have some Tulips up by about a couple of inches or so, both in the yard, as wel...

Dirk, I like how you have dealt with the pictures, you've gone away from the fade-in border, which looks fine on a few pictures perhaps, but not a whole website. Embedding the HostaDream logo should achieve your goal of combating piracy or pinching of pictures off your site just as well, if not bett...

Our boy Ace just LOVES the snow we got over the weekend. He thinks it's great fun to dig with your front paws, make a snow ball and then eat it! He also cannot stop going after chunks of ice, he can crunch those all day if you'd let 'em.

I haven't started any seeds as yet, will probably wait until early spring, at which time I'll use a nifty clear plastic container you get when you buy greenhouse grown tomatoes-on-the-vine in our neck of the woods. The lids are attached on one side, so they hinge, and when you snap them down there i...

We have 4 different varieties of Fuchsia we grow, all forms of magellanica , and one of the four has not flowered for us this year: Fuchsia magellanica gracilis variegata . It flowered for us last year, came up in the same pot again this year, took several cuttings, but it never developed one bud. N...

This particular variety is called 'Blue Wonder', it's new for us this year. The picture was taken last Sunday, and it's still going strong today.

Greets from the West Coast, where the weather is starting to turn and the fall rains are not far off. Yes, I have seen several examples of HVX infected batches of Hostas in 4 or 5 nurseries in the Greater Vancouver area. One of them that springs to mind was a batch of 'ZOUNDS' if memory serves -and ...

Being on holidays at the moment, I have found some spare time to visit a couple of nurseries in the Greater Vancouver area that I hadn't blessed with my presence yet this year. And I'm not sure they were pleased to have been blessed, because at one I found HVX infected 'Zounds' and an 'S&S' that was...

Received a 'reject' planter from a neighbour this spring that had 3 nice Heucheras in it. I've been trying to get a handle ever since we got them on what variety it is. Your best guesses are welcomed..... Yes, I know there are three different varieties of Heucheras in this picture, one's 'Winter Red...

Thanks for your response, Chris. Perhaps I'm just a little touchy and overly cautious about viral expression signs. My mind wanders and I wonder whenever I see something on any of my remaining Hostas and feel just a little more comforted now in the knowledge that what I'm looking at is nothing to be...

After my experience with HVX infected bare roots from Costco this year, I have been keeping a very close eye on the Sum & Substance which came from the same source 4 years ago. The smallest of the 4 I had gave me cause to do numerous double takes last year, but I never really felt sure about it. Her...

As some of you will have noticed in my first post on the welcome forum, I have/had an issue with HVX infected root stock I purchased at Costco this year (my Dutch penchant for a bargain got the better of me, but some things are too good to be true, aren't they?). Once I got a little better handle on...

Thanks Renaldo! Now I have better idea what to look for.

Thank you Joan for the warning about toad lillies, as I bought some from the same source. I did a quick scan of the various topics on the forum but could not find it, perhaps you'd be so kind as to point me in the right direction so I know what to be on the lookout for.

Hello all, Just a quick hello to introduce myself: Pieter Klapwijk is the name and gardening is the game. I live with my wife Waita in sunny Richmond, BC, where we have your typical 50x100 suburban lot with a not so typical back yard. Check out our website @ http://pwk.resteddoginn.ca where I talk a...