Butchart Gardens October 22, 2010

On this damp and mostly overcast morning, gardeners were busy planting bulbs for spring.

A flower bed outside the Blue Poppy cafe.

Unknown (to me) pink & orange flowers in a pot near the entrance.

Update: The plant is Euonymus Europaeus, also known as European Spindle. Its hard wood was used to make spindles, and the fruit is poisonous.

The Italian Garden. The yellow flowers will probably turn to mush in the rain before long.

The dahlia border across the lawn is still looking good.

I still don't know the name of these intriguing little flowers with the blue and green 'pearl' pods.

Update: The plant is Clerodendrum Trichotomum, also known as Harlequin Glorybower. Some call it the Peanut Butter Bush because the leaves apparently smell like peanut butter when you crush them. I must try to do that some time.

Japanese Garden

Around this time of year the Japanese garden should be ablaze with colour.

Either I was too early or too late, or the fall foliage is not going to be as spectacular as 2 or 3 years ago.

This shows a difference in colour between the two cameras - our little old Canon Elph on the left and the Canon Vixia camcorder on the right. I prefer the Elph for fall foliage since it seems to handle oranges better.