Butchart's Jan. 31, 2009

For anyone who hasn't followed our pre-blog emails, Glenn and I bought yearly passes to Butchart Gardens in April, 2008. In the cold winter months Butchart's transforms the Blue Poppy restaurant into a spring garden with flowers, bridges, a pond with fish and a waterfall. During "Spring Prelude" they also open part of the residence to the public. This was our 4th visit of the year to Butchart's (23rd since last April) and it was just a quick stop on our way to Sidney.

Here are two types (assuming they're not just variations of the same type) of the Amaryllis flowers we didn't get pictures of before. Both are in an awkward-to-photograph spot in the greenhouse beside the cafe garden.

Below are two photos of the next type just to show the difference in colour between our Canon ELPH (top) and Canon camcorder (bottom). Note the greens in bottom right corner.

A few things had changed in the indoor garden since last week. One of the Witch Hazel bushes was completely bare, many of the tulips were gone and the Pussy Willow was starting to go to flower (or whatever it is doing here - below).

I should know what these flowers are but I don't. The blue flowers in the top photo were actually purple.

It may be indoors but, at this time of year, we'll take any tree blossoms we can get.